Oleg Soskovets


Oleg Nikolaevich Soskovets is a Soviet, Kazakh and Russian politician.
Soskovets was amongst those accompanying Boris Yeltsin during the 1994 diplomatic incident at Shannon Airport.
He was originally the head of Boris Yeltsin's 1996 reelection campaign, devising its original strategy, but the strategy was ultimately abandoned and Soskovets was dismissed from his role as campaign chairman.
Soskovets was regarded as the "official protector" of the Trans-World Group which controlled Russian aluminium industry.
Soskovets was dismissed from Yeltsin's administration soon after the Xerox Affair.
Soskovets is the father-in-law of Dmytro Salamatin who was Minister of Defense of Ukraine in 2012.

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