Aleksey Maratovich Orlov
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Aleksey Maratovich Orlov is a Kalmyk
Kalmyk people
Kalmyk people is the name given to the Oirats, western Mongols in Russia, whose descendants migrated from Dzhungaria in 1607. Today they form a majority in the autonomous Republic of Kalmykia on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. Kalmykia is Europe's only Buddhist government...

 politician who is the current "Head" of the Republic of Kalmykia
Kalmykia
The Republic of Kalmykia is a federal subject of Russia . Population: It is the only Buddhist region in Europe. It has also become well-known as an international chess mecca because its former President, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is the head of the International Chess Federation .-Geography:*Area:...

 which is part of the Russian Federation.

Orlov was born on the 9th of October 1961 in Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia. He is ethnic Kalmyk.
In 1984 graduated the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the MFA of the USSR.

Early career

1984 - 1985 he worked as chief inspector of the association, chief inspector of the agency for export of agrarian products "Selkhozprodexport", Moscow.
1986 - 1989 he was a plumber of the Moscow pilot-producing plant "Agregat", Moscow;
1989 - 1991 department manager, then head of the Trade-union center of the MFA service department of the USSR, Moscow.
1991 - 1994 Director General, Vice Manager of the Soviet-Yugoslav Joint Venture Company JSC "Sov-Yug" Moscow.
August 1994 - January 1995 he was Vice Manager CJSC "Poisk";
February 1995 - July 1995 Director General of the Russian-Italian Joint Venture Company CJSC "MAG".

Political career

From May 1995 to January 2003 Orlov was Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kalmykia to the RF President and Deputy Chair of the Republic of Kalmykia, Moscow; from January 2003 to October 2010 First Deputy Chair of the Republic of Kalmykia - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kalmykia to the RF President.

On September 21, 2010 President Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is the third President of the Russian Federation.Born to a family of academics, Medvedev graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1987. He defended his dissertation in 1990 and worked as a docent at his alma mater, now renamed to Saint...

 proposed his candidature as Head of Kalmykia out of a list of four candidates submitted by the "United Russia
United Russia
United Russia is a centrist political party in Russia and the largest party in the country, currently holding 315 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. The party was founded in December 2001, through a merger of the Unity and Fatherland-All Russia parties...

" - Party. On September 28 he was confirmed by the legislature, the People's Khural of Kalmykia
People's Khural of Kalmykia
People's Khural of Kalmykia is the Parliament of Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation. The People's Khural has been established on the base of the Constitution of the Russian Federation of 1993. But the assembly is also formed along Mongolian traditions of the State Great Khural...

. On October 24 he took office, succeeding his predecessor Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov is a Kalmyk multi-millionaire businessman and politician. He was the President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and he has been the President of FIDE , the world's pre-eminent international chess organization, since 1995...

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