MOSCOW, December 29 (Itar-Tass) — Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Savatugin has filed a resignation.

On his Twitter page, he put a scanned copy of the hand-written application addressed to Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Savatugin has been Deputy Finance Minister since January 13, 2010. Earlier, for six years he was head of the ministry’s Department of Financial Policy.