ArmInfo. Advisor to the President of Russia Sergey Glazyev will become the new Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC, supranational regulatory body). Glazyev's candidacy has already been approved by the leaders of the governments of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia. The presidents of the member countries of the union should approve Glazyev at the meeting on October 1 in Yerevan, the EEC press service reports.
A federal official explained to "Vedomosti" that Glazyev would not be able to combine a new position with work in the presidential administration. Spokesman for Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov did not answer the question of "Vedomost"i. Glazyev will replace Tatyana Valova, who headed the UN headquarters in Geneva. Glazyev already worked at the EEC, he was the executive secretary of the Commission of the Customs Union (later it was transformed into the Eurasian Economic Union).
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