Alexey Overchuk
Alexey Logvinovich Overchuk (; born December 9, 1964) is a Russian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation from 21 January 2020. Biography. Born on 9 December 1964 in Korostyshev, Zhytomyr Oblast. In 1986, he graduated from the K.A. Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy, specialising in economic cybernetics. In 1992 he defended his PhD thesis on "Organisation of management of cooperative form of farming in Industrial agriculture" at the K.A. Timiryazev Moscow Academy of Agriculture, PhD in Economics. From 1994-1998 he was deputy head of the international department of the presidential administration. Since 1998, head of  the department of state registration of real estate rights at the State Committee for Land Resources and Land Management (Roskomzem). From August 2000, he was Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Land Cadastre Service (Roszemkadastr), which was reorganised into the Federal Real Estate Cadastre Agency (Rosnedvizhimost) in 2004. In 2007, he became deputy head of the Federal Agency for Management of Special Economic Zones under Mikhail Mishustin, coordinating work to attract investors. Since March 2011 he has been deputy head of the Federal Tax Service. He coordinated and supervised the activities of the Department of Standards and International Cooperation. Since  21 January 2020, he has been Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Originally, Overchuk was supposed to oversee IT issues, but these were distributed among other deputy prime ministers. His responsibilities in government include Eurasian integration, cooperation with international organisations (CIS, BRICS, G20, etc.) and planning and organising international events with the Prime Minister.