Marat Khousnoullin is Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. He is in charge of the country's major construction sites.
He has shaped the new face of Moscow, including the Luzhniki Stadium and Zaryadyé urban park. The 56-year-old is now leading the reconstruction of cities destroyed by Russian forces. The war against Ukraine inevitably led it towards "ideological" politics, writes Simon Tisdall, an expert in Russian politics and foreign policy.