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Boris Kovalchuk
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Boris Yuryevich Kovalchuk (Russian: Бори́с Ю́рьевич Ковальчу́к; born 1 December 1977) is a Russian official who has served as Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Russia since 2024.[1] He is a son of Yury Kovalchuk.
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Since April 20, 2006, he has led the Department of the Russian Government's Staff for implementation of the National Priority Projects.[2]
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Kovalchuk was born on December 1, 1977, in Leningrad, which was then part of the Russian SFSR.[3] His father is Yury Kovalchuk, who has been known to be a longtime associate of Vladimir Putin.[3] In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University.[4] After graduating he worked until 2006 as a legal consultant at the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Central Research Institute "Granit", which supplies telecommunications equipments while also from 2003 to 2006 being a member of the audit commission of the Rossiya Bank which his father owns.[3] In addition, durig this time, he was executive director of the non-profit "League of Honorary Consuls", director of the North-West Consulting Company, head of Consult LLC, and head of the management company "Investment Culture" which built ski resorts in Leningrad region.[5]
On March 9, 2006, he was appointed assistant in the secretariat of then First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev.[5] In November 2009 he was appointed Acting Chairman of the Management Board of Inter RAO, after Yevgeny Dod went to the board of RusHydro.[6] In the summer of 2010 he was approved as the full-time chairman of Inter RAO, which he did until March 2024.[7]
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Sanctions
He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War. [8]
In December 2022 the EU sanctioned Boris Kovalchuk in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[9]
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