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Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
About Andrey Kostin
- Andrey L.
- Kostin (Russian: ?????? ?????? ??????????; born September 21, 1956) is a Russian banker, currently President and Chairman of the Management Board of VTB Bank, Member of the Supervisory Council, Member of the Strategy and Corporate Governance Committee, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of several VTB subsidiaries, PhD in Economics. Shares owned in the charter capital of VTB Bank – 0.00036%.He is one of the most active representatives of the Russian banking sector and is a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox News, CNN, BBC and Bloomberg TV-channel.
- He has three times participated in the Charlie Rose show on Bloomberg television, as well as the Hard Talk programme on BBC.
- He has been attending the World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland) since 1996.On January 19, 2017, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Kostin, called for the sanctions on the Russian financial sector, especially the "four leading Russian banks" to be lifted.On January 22-4, 2018, during interviews at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Kostin again stated that additional sanctions against individuals or entities would be an "economic war".In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on him and 23 other Russian nationals.He is on the supervisory board of Post Bank.In 2018, a number of media portals reported about a “special personal relationship,” which, at least since 2014, have connected Kostin with the journalist Nailya Asker-Zade.
- In November of 2018, the Arbitration Court of the city of St.
- Petersburg and the Leningrad region deemed this information to be untrue and defamatory to business reputation .
- The same decision prohibited the dissemination of this information in the territory of the Russian Federation.
- In 2019, newspapers such as Vedomosti and Kommersant, Forbes magazine and Radio Liberty reported that about 1,000 digital publications about Kostin were blocked by Roskomnadzor .
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