Mikhail Kasyanov - Timeline

Timeline

• 1981-90: Engineer; Leading Economist; Senior Specialist; Head of Section, Department of Foreign Economic Relations of the State Planning Committee of the RSFSR.
• 1990: appointed Head of Section, Sub-department of Foreign Economic Relations of the State Planning Committee of the RSFSR.
• 1991: Deputy Head, Sub-department, then Head, Sub-department of Foreign Economic Relations of the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation.
• 1992-93: Head, Consolidation Department of the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation.
• 1993-95: Head, Department of Foreign Credits and External Debt of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and Member of the Board of the Ministry of Finance.
• 1995: appointed Deputy Minister of Finance.
• 1999: appointed First Deputy Minister of Finance.
• May 1999: appointed Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
• January 2000: appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
• May 2000: Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
• February 2004: Sacked by President Putin along with the entire cabinet.
• March 2005: Mikhail Kasyanov launched his advisory firm MK Analytica. He started to vocally criticize Russian authorities for their anti-democratic drift and declared his intention to take part in the presidential elections in 2008 to change the general political course of the country.
• April 2006: Chairman of the People’s Democratic Union (PDU), a newly launched NGO.
• June 2007: Nominated by the PDU as a candidate for the presidential elections.
• July 2007: due to the group's failure to agree on a single presidential candidate Kasyanov leaves The Other Russia.
• September 2007: Chairman of the new political party "People for Democracy and Justice" established on the basis of PDU.
• December 2007: approved by a congress of supporters as a candidate for the presidential elections.
• January 2008: The Central Election Commission of Russia (ЦИК) barred his candidacy for the presidential elections, citing an excess of forgeries within his required two million signatures.