'''Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov''' (Russian: Михаи́л Ефи́мович Фрадко́в) (born September_1, 1950) is a Russian politician, and the current Prime_Minister_of_Russia.
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Fradkov was born near the city now known as Samara. He studied at both the Moscow Machine Tool Design (станкоинструментальный) Institute (graduated 1972) and the Foreign Trade Academy (graduated 1981). In 1973, he was posted to the economic section of the Soviet_Union's Embassy in India, where he remained for two years. He later held several positions back in Russia. In 1991, he was Russia's representative to General_Agreement_on_Tariffs_and_Trade (GATT) in Geneva.
In late 1992, Fradkov was appointed Deputy Minister for Foreign Economic Relations. Less than a year later, in October 1993, he became First Deputy Minister for Foreign Economic Relations. On 15_April, 1997, a presidential decree by Boris_Yeltsin appointed Fradkov Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, a post which he kept for nearly a year. In the middle of 1999, another presidential decree made him Minister of Trade.
He was made director of the Federal Tax Police by Vladimir Putin in 2001, having previously been Deputy Secretary of the Security Council. In 2003 he was made Russia's representative to the European_Union. On March_1, 2004, he was nominated by Putin as the next Prime Minister, and this appointment was approved by the Duma on March 5.
Fradkov's nomination as Prime Minister was a surprise to many observers, as he was not seen as part of Vladimir Putin's inner circle. Some commentators, such as the Carnegie_Moscow_Center's Lilia_Shevtsova, have speculated that his "outsider" status might have been an important factor in his nomination, saying that Putin selected him as someone who was "not a representative of any of the warring clans" in The_Kremlin. Former Prime Minister Sergei_Stepashin, whom Fradkov has served under, called Fradkov "absolutely independent from any sort of political clan or group." Putin and his allies have praised Fradkov as experienced, professional, and honest. His appointment discontented some parts of Russia's Nationalists, because Fradkov is of Jewish extraction.
==Fradkov's Cabinet==
*Dmitry_Medvedev- First Deputy Prime Minister
*Alexei_Gordeyev- Minister of Agriculture
*Sergei_Shoigu- Minister of Civil Defense, Emergencies, & Natural Disasters
*Aleksandr_Sergeyevich_Sokolov- Minister of Culture & Mass Communication
*Sergei_Ivanov- Minister of Defense and deputy prime minister with responsibility for the security agencies
*German_Gref- Minister of Economic Development & Trade
*Andrei_Fursenko- Minister of Education & Science
*Alexei_Kudrin - Minister of Finance
*Sergei_Lavrov- Minister of Foreign Affairs
*Mikhail_Zurabov- Minister of Health & Social Development
*Viktor_Khristenko- Minister of Industry & Energy
*Leonid_Reiman- Minister of Information Technology & Communications
*Rashid_Nurgaliyev- Minister of Internal Affairs (MVD)
*Yuri_Chaika- Minister of Justice
*Yuri_Trutnev- Minister of Natural Resources
*Vladimir_Yakolev- Minister of Regional Development
*Igor_Levitin- Minister of Transportation
*Sergei_Mikhailovich_Lebedev- Director, Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
*Nikolai_Platonovich_Patrushev- Director, Federal Security Service (FSB)
*Sergei_Naryshkin- Head, Government Apparatus
*Igor_Ivanov- Secretary, Security Council
*Vladimir_Ustinov- Prosecutor General
==External links==
*Biographies of the Fradkov Cabinet
*Renaissance Capital Research Portal "The New Government"
* The Carnegie Moscow Center
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