President Vladimir Putin on Sunday appointed Kirill Dmitriev, the chief of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, as a special envoy on international economic and investment cooperation.

A US-educated former Goldman Sachs banker, Kirill Dmitriev has cut an unexpected figure at recent talks between the US and Russia in Riyadh.

His main role, his main task, is what Putin assigned him: to get the Americans to lift sanctions pressure. That’s his job,” Russia’s former deputy foreign minister, told NBC News.

Russia is open for economic cooperation with the U.S., President Vladimir Putin' new special envoy on international economic cooperation said in response to President Donald Trump's call for "major economic development transactions with Russia".

By Ben Aris in Berlin When I first met Kirill Dmitriev he was one of the bright young things of the Russian business firmament that was going to build a new liberal, market oriented Russia. With degrees from both Stanford and Harvard and fluent in English,

Riyadh in Saudi Arabia hosted the first stage of talks between the delegations of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on the restoration of US-Russia relations and the formation of negotiating teams on the Russo-Ukrainian war.

The Kremlin is assembling a high-level negotiating team to engage in direct talks with the United States to end the war in Ukraine, sources with knowledge of the issue have told CNN.

Russia's sovereign wealth fund chief Kirill Dmitriev will meet a U.S. delegation in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to focus on strengthening ties and increased economic cooperation, a source in Riyadh told Reuters.

Senior officials from the U.S. and Russia meet in Saudi Arabia on improving ties and ending the war in Ukraine - but Ukraine isn't invited.

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Russia's Covid-19 vaccine, on a global level? Kyiv, education in the US, Pinchuk's investment fund and military intelligence ID Kirill Dmitriev was born in 1975 to a Ukrainian family of biologists. He studied at a school specialising in physics and ...

Putin Appoints Russia Sovereign Wealth Fund Chief Kirill Dmitriev Special Envoy (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Sunday appointed the chief of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, Kirill ...