Full name:
Tkachev Alexander
Tkachev Alexander Date of Birth
23 December 1960
Tkachev Alexander Citizenship
Russia
Tkachev Alexander Professional field/official position
Agriculture Minister of Russia (2015 – 2018), Governor of the Krasnodar Territory (2001 – 2015)
Tkachev Alexander biography
TKACHEV Alexander Nikolayevich (b. 1960) graduated from the Krasnodar Polytechnic Institute with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1983.
- In 1986 – 1988, he served as the first secretary of the Vyselkovsky district committee of the Komsomol of the Krasnodar Territory. Later, he joined the Communist Party, but left in 1991.
- In 1990, he was appointed as the director of the Vyselkovsky feed mill, and later became General Director of the Agrocomplex CJSC after its privatization and expansion.
- In 1994, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory. In 1995, he ran for the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and upon winning the elections, joined the Agrarian Group, which was aligned with the Communist Party.
- He served as a member of the Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banks, and Finance.
Tkachev was elected Governor of the Krasnodar Territory in December 2000. - In 2005, Tkachev joined the United Russia party, leading its Krasnodar Regional Branch. In November 2006, he became a member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of United Russia. In January 2012, Tkachev, along with seven other heads of Russian regions, became a member of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation. In March 2012, he was also appointed Putin’s special envoy for Abkhazia, a region recognized as an “independent state” by Russia following the war against Georgia in 2008.
During his governorship, corruption, irresponsibility of his officials, and outright banditry flourished, including the massacre in Kushchevskaya where 12 people were killed. His administration supported the activities of militant formations such as “the Cossacks,” who regularly engaged in pogroms, beatings, and anti-opposition denunciations across the country. - On April 22, 2015, Tkachev was appointed Minister of Agriculture. One notable action during his tenure, which lasted just over three years, was his support of the deliberate destruction of “sanctioned” Western food directly on the Russian border. This practice, part of the Kremlin’s policy of “food counter-sanctions against the West,” began in 2014 with regard to imported goods. While most officials remained silent about this practice and it was only reported in local media, Tkachev openly supported it, claiming that by 2020 the country would purportedly be ready to “completely abandon foreign food,” despite a quarter of the country’s population being undernourished and local products not meeting European quality standards.
