Andrey Kostin

1973 — enters the Department of Economics of Foreign Countries, Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University.

1979 — graduates with honors from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University with a degree in political economy which qualified him as an economist and teacher of political economy. He was immediately assigned to work abroad at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[3]

1979—1982 — employee of the USSR Consulate General in Sydney (Australia).

1982—1985 — Secretary of the European Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[4]

1985—1990 — employee of the USSR Embassy in Great Britain (London).

1990—1992 — First Secretary, Advisor to the European Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Kostin, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong at the APEC Australia 2007

Kostin and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at an opening ceremony of the Russian Commercial Bank in Cyprus in 2010

He is one of the most active representatives of the Russian banking sector and is a frequent guest on CNBC,[5] Fox News,[6] CNN,[7] BBC and Bloomberg TV channel. He has three times participated in the Charlie Rose show on Bloomberg television,[8] as well as the Hard Talk programme on BBC.[9] He has been attending the World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland) since 1996.[10]

In May 2017, Kostin suggested the Washington elite was purposefully disrupting the presidency of Donald Trump by spreading false accusations about his ties to Russia.[11]

On January 22-4, 2018, during interviews at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Kostin again stated that additional sanctions against individuals or entities would be an "economic war".[12][13]

In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on him and 23 other Russian nationals.[14][15]

He is on the supervisory board of Post Bank.[16]

On April 4, 2019, the Vedomosti newspaper drew attention to the massive blocking of publications by Roskomnadzor on the Internet, most of which mentioned gifts from VTB bank president Andrei Kostin to Nailya Asker-zade. In the interests of VTB, and by a court decision, Roskomnadzor blocked about 1000 publications.[17]

On December 2, 2019, FBK’s Alexei Navalny released an investigation about Kostin's relationship with Naila Asker-zade on YouTube. In this video Alexei Navalny accused Kostin of making gifts to journalist Nailya Asker-zade[18] (use of a business jet, yacht, house in the cottage village, two apartments, one of them directly from VTB, second from Kirill Zimarin, the head of a subsidiary of VTB in Cyprus) with proof from her Instagram account. Kostin, according to Navalny in his video clip, uses money belonging to the bank, 60.9% of which is state-owned, to buy luxurious real estate for his beloved. According to The Bell said that there is a link between VTB and the business jet, but not with the yacht, and that it is impossible to draw a conclusion about the owners of the plane and yacht, as well as who paid for the journalist's travels. On December 25, 2019, Kostin said that he would think about what actions to take about the investigation, and refused to comment.[19][20]

According to official data, Kostin is married, has children and a grandson.[21]

His eldest son Andrey (1978–2011), worked as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Bank in Russia. He died on July 2, 2011 during a trip on an ATV while on vacation in the Yaroslavl Region.[22][23][24][25][26][27][28]

• Order of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Seraphim, 2nd class;[29]
• Orders For Merit to the Fatherland (2nd, 3rd and 4th classes);
• Order of Honour
• Order of Merit (France)

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