Dmitry Kozak

Dmitry Nikolayevich Kozak (Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Козак; born November 7, 1958 in Bandurowo, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union ) is a Russian politician. Since October 2008 he has been Vice - Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation. Kozak important task in this office is to coordinate the preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Cossack graduated in 1985 to study law at the University of Leningrad successfully. He is considered a close confidant of President Vladimir Putin, with whom he has worked in the 1990s in the St. Petersburg city administration.

From 2000 he was the first deputy head of the Russian presidential administration responsible for administrative reform, court reform and the reform of local self-government.

In March 2004, Cossack became head of the government apparatus with the rank of minister. He was responsible for the Russian presidential elections in 2004 for the election of Vladimir Putin.

Since September 2004, he was the President authorized representative in the Federal District Southern Federal District. In an article published in the press report to Putin Cossack complained in June 2005, mismanagement and corruption, especially in the republics of Dagestan and Chechnya.

In September 2007, he returned as Minister for Regional Development back in the cabinet and since October 2008 he has been Deputy Prime Minister. His most important task explicitly in this office is to prepare the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Cossack applicable in Russia as politically versatile " fireman " with very good management skills.