Sergei Glazyev
State Secretary of the Union State
Background
Sergei Glazyev serves as State Secretary of the Union State, where he functions as the chief executive officer of the Union State’s Permanent Committee. In this role, he is part of the institutional leadership of the Russia-Belarus integration framework and is involved in coordinating the work of the Union State’s governing structures. His position gives him a prominent place in Russian and Belarusian affairs because the Union State is one of the main formal mechanisms for bilateral political and economic integration.
Born on 1 January 1961, Glazyev is a Russian politician and economist who built his career across government, parliament, and academic institutions. He served as minister of Foreign Economic Relations in Boris Yeltsin’s cabinet from 1992 to 1993 and then sat in the State Duma from 1993 to 2007. During that period, he was one of the leaders of the electoral bloc Rodina from 2003 to 2004 and ran as a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation in 2004. From 2012 to 2019, he served as advisor to the president of the Russian Federation on regional economic integration, and by 2021 he was Commissioner for Integration and Macroeconomics within the Eurasian Economic Commission, the executive body of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Glazyev has been associated with economic policy, integration policy, and state institutions connected to Russia’s post-Soviet regional projects. He is a member of the National Financial Council of the Bank of Russia and has been a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2008, reflecting his standing as both a policymaker and an academic economist. His career has linked him to Russian foreign economic relations, parliamentary politics, and successive integration structures, including the Eurasian Economic Union and the Union State.
Timeline
Sergei Glazyev served as State Secretary of the Union State during the Supreme State Council meeting in Moscow.
Meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State
Documents
Meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State
Putin and Lukashenko held the Supreme State Council of the Union State in Moscow, signing a package of documents including directives on mutual legal protection, cross-border rail links, and a new Standardisation and Quality Committee, marking 30 years of Russian-Belarusian integration.