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Vasily Osmakov, an orientalist and Africanist, a candidate of economic sciences, a first-class active state councilor, and, most recently, the first deputy minister of industry and trade, has become the right-hand man of the head of the military department: Andrei Belousov introduced the new employee to his colleagues from the CIS countries at a meeting of the CIS Council of Defense Ministers in Almaty.
Until now, this distinguished graduate of our postgraduate program has focused primarily on economic and financial issues. From 2004 to 2008, Vasily Osmakov worked at the Ministry of Industry and Trade in the public relations, strategic planning, and research departments, as well as in the support of priority industrial policy areas within the Department of Economic Analysis and Long-Term Planning. He then became an assistant and advisor to the Minister of Industry and Trade, and in 2012, he was appointed Director of the Department of Strategic Development and Project Management at the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Four years later, Vasily Sergeevich was promoted to Deputy Minister, and five years later, First Deputy Minister, overseeing the departments of budget policy and finance, strategic development, and corporate policy, as well as budget planning, import substitution, national project coordination, and human resources.
Vasily Osmakov graduated with honors from the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University (ISAMSU) in 2005. He speaks English, Arabic, and German. He also defended his PhD thesis at the IEF's Department of World Economy and International Economic Relations, titled "Foreign Experience in Implementing Oil and Gas Projects Based on Production Sharing Agreements (PSA)," in 2008.
We wholeheartedly congratulate Vasily Sergeyevich on his new appointment and wish him success in protecting the sovereignty and statehood of our country!
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