 Anton Siluanov

Anton Germanovich Siluanov (; born 12 April 1963) is a Russian politician and economist who is a former Minister of Finance of Russia and First Deputy Prime Minister.In 2011, he was appointed to Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in place of Alexei Kudrin, who was forced out and dismissed by president Dmitry Medvedev after publicly criticizing the additional defense spending of 2.1 trillion rubles (US$66 billion) through 2014.