In April 2010, he headed the budget policy department in the social and science sectors of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Since August 2012 He was appointed Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation on May 18, 2018, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 18.05.2018 г. № 237 «О Министре науки и высшего образования Российской Федерации» On December 8, 2018, on the basis of a decision adopted by delegates of the XVIII Congress of the United Russia political party, Mikhail Kotyukov was included in the Supreme Council of the party. On January 15, 2020, he was dismissed from his post as Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, together with the entire government of the Russian Federation, following the 2020 speech the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly, of President Putin in which he proposed several amendments to the Constitution of Russia, which was unexpected for him.Котюков заявил, что решение об отставке правительства было для него неожиданным. ТАСС. 16 января 2020. On March 4, 2020 was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of Mikhail Mishustin.
