Vadim Malinin has become Deputy Minister for Regional Development of the NCFD, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, replacing Sergey Vereshchagin, to work on socio-economic issues of the region, RIA Novosti reports.
Malinin is 44 years old. He served in the army in 1987-2013, graduated at the Military Institute of the Defense Ministry.
Vereshchagin became the acting Director General and then the incumbent Director General of the Northern Caucasus Resorts in late May.