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Order of June 23, 2025 No. 1610-r
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order approving Vasily Tsereteli as President of the Russian Academy of Arts (RAA).
Vasily Tsereteli was elected president of the academy for a term of 5 years following the general meeting of members of the Russian Academy of Arts, which took place on May 19, 2025. According to the charter of the academy, its president is approved and dismissed from office by the Government.
A descendant of the famous sculptor Zurab Tsereteli (1934 – 2025), Russian artist Vasily Tsereteli was born in 1978. He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York and holds an EMBA degree from the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management.
Since 2009, Vasily Tsereteli has been vice-president of the Russian Academy of Arts, and in April 2025, after the death of Zurab Tsereteli, who headed the Russian Academy of Arts since 1997, he became acting president of the academy.
Vasily Tsereteli is an academician of the Russian Academy of Arts and a recipient of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class.
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