{{short description|Russian official}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Boris Kovalchuk | image = Борис Юрьевич Ковальчук.jpg | caption = Kovalchuk in 2024 | office = 5th [[Accounts Chamber of Russia#Chairmen|Chairman of the Accounts Chamber]] | term_start = 14 May 2024 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Alexei Kudrin]]<br/>[[Galina Izotova]] (acting) | successor = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|12|1|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Leningrad]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] <small>(now [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]])</small> | death_date = | death_place = | parents = [[Yury Kovalchuk]] | alma_mater = [[Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Law]] | signature = | native_name = {{nobold|Борис Ковальчук}} | native_name_lang = ru }} '''Boris Yuryevich Kovalchuk''' ({{langx|ru|Бори́с Ю́рьевич Ковальчу́к}}; born 1 December 1977) is a [[Russians|Russian]] official who has served as Chairman of the [[Accounts Chamber of Russia]] since 2024.<ref>{{cite news |title=Совфед назначил Бориса Ковальчука председателем Счетной палаты РФ |url=https://tass.ru/politika/20795435 |access-date=29 April 2025 |work=TACC |date=14 May 2024 |archive-date=14 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514145437/https://tass.ru/politika/20795435 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> He is a son of [[Yury Kovalchuk]].
Since April 20, 2006, he has led the Department of the Russian Government's Staff for implementation of the [[National Priority Projects]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Борис Ковальчук о будущем нацпроектов |url=https://rg.ru/2006/04/21/kovalchug.html?ysclid=ma2xq5cnoz630271123 |access-date=29 April 2025 |work=Российская газета |date=21 April 2006 |language=ru}}</ref>
== Biography == Kovalchuk was born on December 1, 1977, in [[Leningrad]], which was then part of the [[Russian SFSR]].<ref name="kom" /> His father is [[Yury Kovalchuk]], who has been known to be a longtime associate of [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref name="kom">{{cite news |title=Чем известен Борис Ковальчук |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6690523?ysclid=ma2xkts0tl313814879 |access-date=29 April 2025 |work=Kommersant |date=14 May 2024 |language=ru}}</ref> In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of [[St. Petersburg State University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Ковальчук, Борис Юрьевич |url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/kovalchuk-boris-yurevich?ysclid=ma2xo7etna246057588 |website=ТАСС |access-date=29 April 2025}}</ref> After graduating he worked until 2006 as a legal consultant at the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Central Research Institute "Granit", which supplies telecommunications equipments while also from 2003 to 2006 being a member of the audit commission of the [[Rossiya Bank]] which his father owns.<ref name="kom" /> In addition, during this time, he was executive director of the non-profit "League of Honorary Consuls", director of the North-West Consulting Company, head of Consult LLC, and head of the management company "Investment Culture" which built ski resorts in [[Leningrad region]].<ref name="nef">{{cite web |title=Ковальчук Борис Юрьевич - фото, цитаты, биография |url=https://neftegaz.ru/persons/333607-kovalchuk-boris/?ysclid=ma2xvg33ty687666176 |website=neftegaz.ru |access-date=29 April 2025}}</ref>
On March 9, 2006, he was appointed assistant in the secretariat of then [[First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia]], [[Dmitry Medvedev]].<ref name="nef" /> In November 2009 he was appointed Acting Chairman of the Management Board of [[Inter RAO]], after [[Yevgeny Dod]] went to the board of [[RusHydro]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Борис Ковальчук назначен и.о. председателя правления "Интер РАО ЕЭС" |url=https://ria.ru/20091126/195584822.html |access-date=29 April 2025 |work=РИА Новости |date=26 November 2009 |language=ru-RU}}</ref> In the summer of 2010 he was approved as the full-time chairman of Inter RAO, which he did until March 2024.<ref>{{cite news |title=Борис Ковальчук уходит из «Интер РАО» |url=https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/articles/2024/03/07/1024148-boris-kovalchuk-uhodit-iz-inter-rao |access-date=29 April 2025 |work=Ведомости |date=7 March 2024 |language=ru}}</ref>
==Sanctions== He was sanctioned by the [[UK]] government in 2022 in relation to the [[Russo-Ukrainian War]]. <ref>{{cite web |title=CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1150217/Russia.pdf |access-date=16 April 2023}}</ref>
In December 2022 the [[EU]] sanctioned Boris Kovalchuk in relation to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite web |title=COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2022/2477 of 16 December 2022 |url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.LI.2022.322.01.0466.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2022%3A322I%3ATOC |access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>
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