MOSCOW, May 11 (AVN) - President Vladimir Putin has appointed Ruslan Tsalikov Russia's deputy emergency minister, a ministry spokesman told the Military News Agency on Thursday.
Tsalikov was born in the city of Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz) in the North Ossetian autonomous republic in 1956. He graduated from the North Ossetian Khetagurov State University and the Moscow Plekhanov State Economics Institute. The new deputy minister holds an MA decree in Economics.
After graduation, Tsalikov worked at the chair of Labour Economics of the Khetagurov university, was deputy dean of the univerity's Economics Faculty, then deputy director-general for economics of an enterprise.
Later, he was main controller and inspector of the Russian Finance Ministry's control and inspection department for North Ossetia and finance minister of that autonomous republic.
Tsalikov entered the Russian Emergency Ministry in March 1994. He headed the main finance and economic service and then the finance and economic activity department.
The official has been awarded the Order of Friendship.