Alfred Kokh, PhD

Alfred Kokh is the former First Deputy Prime Minister under Boris Yeltsin, an ally of Anatoly Chrbar's, architect of privatization. Kokh was head of Russia's Privatization State Property Committee, and head of Gazprom-Media in 2000. An entrepreneur and magazine publisher, he is a philanthropist. He holds a doctorate in economics from St. Petersburg Mathematics and Economics Institute. Igor Svinarenko has lived in Europe and the United States. He received the Soros Foundation prize for...See more

Alfred Kokh is the former First Deputy Prime Minister under Boris Yeltsin, an ally of Anatoly Chrbar's, architect of privatization. Kokh was head of Russia's Privatization State Property Committee, and head of Gazprom-Media in 2000. An entrepreneur and magazine publisher, he is a philanthropist. He holds a doctorate in economics from St. Petersburg Mathematics and Economics Institute. Igor Svinarenko has lived in Europe and the United States. He received the Soros Foundation prize for journalism (1999). He is now the editor of MEDVED magazine. See less