Ruslan Tsalikov

He graduated from the North Ossetian State University which was named in honour of Kosta Khetagurov in 1978 and five years later got a degree from the Moscow Institute of National Economy.Tsalikov worked as Minister of Finance of North Ossetia for four years starting from 1990 and from 1994 till 2000 was the Chief of the Main Financial and Economic Administration under Boris Yeltsin.[3] From May to November 2012, he was the Vice Governor of the Moscow Region and starting from that date on, under Presidential Decree, he was promoted to Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation.After Sergei Shoigu was moved out of the Ministry of Defence, Ruslan Tsalikov tried to buy himself immunity from investigation into the corruption cases at the Ministry, for which a member of high-ranking generals have already been put into the Lefortovo prison, by becoming a member of the Federation Council, which he failed.There have been allegations that he’s trying to sell real estate previously bought using corruption schemes and flee Russia.
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