Ruslan Tsalikov

Ruslan Tsalikov
Руслан Цаликов
Official portrait, 2016
Deputy Minister of Defence
In office 24 December 2015 – 17 June 2024
President	Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister	Dmitry Medvedev Mikhail Mishustin
Minister	Sergei Shoigu Andrei Belousov
Preceded by	Arkady Bakhin
Succeeded by	Leonid Gornin
Personal details
Born	(1956-07-31) July 31, 1956 Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), North Ossetian ASSR
Awards	Order of Honour Order of Friendship
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union Russia
Branch/service	Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Years of service	1991–2024
Rank	1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation

Ruslan Khadzhismelovich Tsalikov (Russian: Руслан Хаджисмелович Цаликов; born 31 July 1956) was a Russian First Deputy Minister of Defence and Order of Honour recipient. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.

Biography

Tsalikov was born on July 31, 1956, in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), North Ossetian ASSR. He graduated from the North Ossetian State University which was named in honour of Kosta Khetagurov in 1978 and five years later got a degree from the Moscow Institute of National Economy. Between those years he was an intern researcher in the same place and from 1983 to 1987 was a lecturer on labour economics and the same year became a subdean of the Economics Faculty at the same university. From 1987 to 1989, he was Economic Affairs' General Director, and from 1989 to 1990, worked at Control-and-Auditing Directorate as the Chief Controller. Tsalikov worked as Minister of Finance of North Ossetia for four years starting from 1990 and from 1994 till 2000 was the Chief of the Main Financial and Economic Administration under Boris Yeltsin. From 2000 to 2005, he worked for Ministry of Emergency Situations. He was promoted to the State Secretary by Vladimir Putin, a position which he held from 2005 to 2007. In 2010, he became a head of Ministry of Emergency Situations and then was invited as a guest on Special Correspondent on Russia-1.

From May to November 2012, he was the Vice Governor of the Moscow Region and starting from that date on, under Presidential Decree, he was promoted to Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation. He was scheduled to become Acting Governor of Moscow Region. He was made Acting Governor of Moscow Region on 6 November 2012 and served until 8 November 2012, when he was replaced by current Governor Andrei Vorobyov. After Sergei Shoigu was moved out of the Ministry of Defence, Ruslan Tsalikov tried to buy himself immunity from investigation into the corruption cases at the Ministry, for which a member of high-ranking generals have already been put into the Lefortovo prison, by becoming a member of the Federation Council, which he failed. There have been allegations that he’s trying to sell real estate previously bought using corruption schemes and flee Russia.

Sanctions

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.