Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed decree No. 3134-r appointing Anton Teslenko as Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS).
Teslenko has worked at the FAS since 2018, serving as Deputy Head of the Anti-Cartel Department. Since October 2021, he has led the agency’s Financial Control Department. As Deputy Head of the FAS, Teslenko will be in charge of the Financial Markets Control and Financial Control Department.
The agency also announced that Deputy Head Andrey Kashevarov has stepped down from his post at his own request. Kashevarov had served as Deputy Head of the FAS since 2004.
Kashevarov was born on February 3, 1961, in Moscow. He graduated from the Plekhanov Moscow Institute of National Economy in 1982 and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute of Soviet Trade in 1987. His career in antimonopoly regulation began in 1990, when he joined the State Committee of the RSFSR for Antimonopoly Policy and Support to New Economic Structures (GKAP Russia). In 2001, he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for Antimonopoly Policy and Support to Entrepreneurship.
Sources: FAS, Kommersant
