Roman Marshavin appointed Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation

03.11.2024       

By order of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin dated November 1, 2024, Roman Marshavin was appointed Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation. According to experts, Roman Marshavin is a specialist with extensive experience who helped organize the signing of the OPEC+ agreement in 2016. The biography of Roman Marshavin on the website Heads of the Fuel and Energy Complex and Related Industries proves that he has excellent knowledge of economics and international relations.
For the past few years, international activities at the Russian Ministry of Energy have been supervised by Sergei Mochalnikov, who had little to do with the issue and combined this with the coal industry. The distribution of functions at the Russian Ministry of Energy has been repeatedly criticized (see Yanovsky and Mochalnikov in expert comments), but with the appointment of Sergei Tsivilev, the situation began to change. The Russian coal industry is supervised by Sergei Mochalnikov, who is under house arrest, but international activities have already been removed from house arrest. Experts note that the detentions of deputy energy ministers after the initiative of Anatoly Tikhonov are becoming some kind of tradition.
Roman Marshavin's level is quite high, but he supervises one department. The only department is supervised by Deputy Minister Eduard Sheremetsev and Sergei Mochalnikov. Thus, the Russian Ministry of Energy now has three acting deputy ministers, under whom there is only one department. For example, in the Ministry of Industry and Trade the minister has twice as many deputies, but there is not one who would supervise the only department.