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Following is a brief biography of Khloponin.

Khloponin was born on March 6, 1965, in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo to the family of a translator working for the Soviet trade mission.

He studied in the Moscow Financial Institute in 1982-89.

From 1989 to 1992, he worked in Soviet Vnesheconombank as the head of Government Loans Department.

In 1992, Khloponin joined International Financial Company to become its president in 1996.

On June 28, 1996, the board of directors of Norilsk Nickel company appointed Khloponin as president and CEO.

In 2001, 36-year-old Khloponin became the youngest Russian governor, when he won gubernatorial polls in the Siberian Taimyr district, Russia"s center for nickel production.

In 2002, he became the governor of Krasnoyarsk Territory after the death of the previous regional leader, Alexander Lebed, in a helicopter accident. The Krasnoyarsk Territory is more than three times the size of France. The young

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