Aleksandr Torshin
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Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, RIAC member.
1973–1975: Military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR.
1978: Graduated from the Moscow State Law University with a major in Jurisprudence. He then went on to work in the public prosecutor’s office of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Soviet Political Science Association, the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and the Academy of Social Sciences under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee.
1990–1991: Worked in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee Department for Relations with Socio-Political Organizations.
1992–1993: Deputy Head of the Russian Government Department for Cooperation with the Supreme Council and Non-Governmental Organizations.
1993–1995: Deputy Head, and then Head of the Department for Cooperation with the Chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Deputy Factions and Deputies of the Department for Cooperation with the Federal Assembly and Non-Governmental Organizations as part of the apparatus of the Council of Ministers within the government of the Russian Federation.
1995–1998: State Secretary of the Bank of Russia, responsible for interacting with state administration bodies, Non-Governmental Organizations and the Media.
1998: Became a governmental representative of the Russian Federation in the State Duma. Official rank: Deputy Chief of Staff.
1999–2001: Deputy Director General and State Secretary of the Agency for Restructuring Credit Organizations.
September 2008: First Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Federation.
May 18 – September 21, 2011: Acting Chairman of the Council of the Federation
January 21, 2015: Appointed State Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus–Russia Union State. Head of the observer mission of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS.
Recipient of the following awards: Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation (2003); Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, II Class (2005) for strengthening ties between the Church and state; the Order of Honour (2008); the Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour; Gratitude of the Government of the Russian Federation; Gratitude of the Chairman of the Council of the Federation; and the Order of the Commonwealth.
Poll conducted
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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements 33 (31%) U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity 30 (28%) U.S. wants to dissolve Russia 24 (22%) U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China 21 (19%)
