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Luzhkov’s new job

6 October 2010 08:59 (UTC+04:00)

MOSCOW – Moscow's ex-Mayor Yury Luzhkov was made dean of faculty of large cities management at the International University in Moscow (IUM) on Oct, 1, according to the University’s website.

The University’s president Gavriil Popov, who was Luzhkov’s predecessor as Moscow mayor, will now be his boss, RIA Novosti reported.

Luzhkov is an honorary professor of the IUM and until now was a supervisor of the faculty of large cities management, a faculty created at Luzhkov’s initiative a Moscow mayor in 2002.

The University was founded in 1991 when Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush Sr. agreed on a joint educational project – a Soviet-American University.

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