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Vadim Gustov
Russian politician (born 1948) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vadim Gustov (Russian: Вадим Анатольевич Густов; born 26 December 1948) is a Russian politician who served as first deputy prime minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999 and a regional leader.
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Early life and education
Gustov was born in Kalinino, Alexandrovsky District, Vladimir Oblast in 1948.[1] He was educated in Sweden.[2]
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Gustov was the head of the Leningrad Oblast Council of People's Deputies until it was dissolved in October 1993.[2] In 1994, he served as chairman of the Federation Council's Commonwealth of Independent States affairs committee.[3] He was elected as the governor of Leningrad Oblast in September 1996, taking 53% of the votes.[2] He was independent, but was supported by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.[4] He replaced Alexander Belyakov in the aforementioned post.[4]
Gustov served as governor until his appointment as first deputy prime minister on 18 September 1998.[5][6] He was succeeded by Valery Serdyukov as the governor of Leningrad Oblast.[4]
Gustov, an independent politician, was one of two first deputy prime ministers in the cabinet of Yevgeny Primakov and was in charge of regional affairs and the relations with former Soviet republics.[7][8][9] Gustov's tenure lasted until 27 April 1999 when he was removed from post by Russian President Boris Yeltsin.[6][10] Gustov was succeeded by Sergei Stepashin in the post.[10][11]
In the 1999 and 2003 elections Gustov ran for the governorship of Leningrad Oblast, but he lost both elections.[12] In January 2002 he became a senator at the Federation Council, representing Vladimir Oblast.[13] He was again the chairman of the council's CIS affairs committee during this period.[14]
Since December 2011 Vadim Gustov is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Oblast. He ran on the list of the United Russia party. On 4 July 2012, he was elected vice-speaker of the Legislative Assembly.[15]
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Gustov was an anti-Yeltsin figure in the 1990s.[2] He was not a communist and did not support the concept of a planned economy.[2]
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