Putin's Mikhail Mishustin, who is nominated as the new Russian prime minister, is less known to the public but has achieved achievements in the tax industry.

After Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev resigned, Putin on January 15 nominated head of the Federal Tax Agency Mikhail Mishustin as a replacement. The Russian lower house will vote on whether to approve Mishustin or not.

Mishustin, 53, holds a doctorate in economics and knows several languages. He worked in information technology in the 1990s before starting his career in the Russian Federal Tax Office in 1998. He ran the UFG investment group from 2008 until being appointed as the Agency's leader. Russian Federation Tax 2010.

He was lauded for the bureaucratic reform of the industry, with its complicated and time-consuming paperwork. The process of paying taxes for both individuals and businesses has become simpler, mostly online. State television channel Rossiya-24 said that Mishustin "created the best tax collection system in the world".

Mishustin shares a hobby of playing ice hockey with Putin. He is a member of the CSKA hockey club supervision board. The RBK business newspaper reported in 2010 that Mishustin often appeared at hockey matches with senior officials from the General Department of Security of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of the Interior.

While Putin rarely uses technology, Mishustin thinks that Russia needs to adapt to the age of digital technology and artificial intelligence, otherwise it will lag behind. "We are entering the industrial revolution 4.0, this is a digital world," he said.

"If we don't understand how the world is developing and what its rules are, if we just leave the country part of the old order then this new world will turn us into a victim." .

After Putin proposed a series of constitutional changes on January 15, including allowing parliament rather than the president to choose the prime minister, changing the term of office for the president, analysts considered this a preparatory step for Putin for the political future when he finished the fourth presidential term in 2024.

The person chosen to be prime minister has the potential to succeed Putin, similar to the way Putin left the presidency in 2008 to become prime minister under Medvedev and Medvedev then became prime minister when Putin was elected for his third term in 2012. Because So, attention will now be on Mikhail Mishustin.

However, some analysts suspect Mishustin is likely to be chosen as Putin's successor. "Mishustin does not have any political experience, is not a popular face to the voters nor is he a part of Putin's trusted group," Tatiana Stanovaya, a scholar from the Carnegie Moscow Center, wrote.

She said Mishustin was less likely to run for president in 2024. "It is very likely that Mishustin was appointed because he was a technocrat" - that is to choose for professional skills instead of political calculations, she said. to speak.

He was chosen to be the prime minister to create "more talented leaders," Dmitri Trenin, head of the Carnegie Moscow Center, wrote.