Russia will vote in favor of Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim, the U.S. nominee to head the World Bank, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said.

“Kim is a world-class professional who has experience in practical work,” Siluanov said today in an e-mailed statement after meeting Kim in Moscow. “The BRICS countries set professional qualities at the top of their list when discussing candidates to be president of the World Bank.”

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