MOSCOW, October 19. /TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has submitted the nominations of five new government members to the State Duma for approval, the Cabinet’s press service reported.
TASS has compiled the key details on the proposed reshuffles.
Putin-Mishustin meeting
- Russian President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin this morning, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
- He clarified that, in addition to discussing pressing issues related to the country’s socioeconomic development, the prime minister presented his proposals to the president on a number of reshuffles in the government.
- These proposals received Putin’s support, Peskov added.
Submission of nominees to State Duma for approval
- Mishustin submitted the nominations of five new cabinet members to the State Duma for approval, the government press service reported later.
- State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin informed lawmakers about the submission of nominations for cabinet positions, the parliament’s website said.
- The State Duma is expected to review them within a week.
- Volodin scheduled an extraordinary meeting of the State Duma Council for October 19 to determine the procedure for approving the new cabinet members, the State Duma press service reported.
- Mishustin noted that a new position is being created within the government: Deputy Prime Minister - Finance Minister.
- Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has been nominated for this position.
- First Deputy Finance Minister Irina Okladnikova has been nominated for the position of Deputy Prime Minister - Head of the Government Secretariat.
- Transport Minister Andrey Nikitin has been nominated for the position of deputy prime minister, responsible, among other things, for transport development.
- Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) Director Dmitry Yadrov has been nominated for the position of transport minister.
- Primorsky Region Governor Oleg Kozhemyako has been nominated for Deputy Prime Minister - Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District.
- Yury Trutnev has held this government post since 2013.
- He turned 70 in March.
Nominations for state awards
- Trutnev’s achievements as Deputy Prime Minister - Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District have been recognized by the president, and he will be nominated for a high state award, the government press service noted.
- According to him, now former Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko will also be nominated for a high state award for his service in that position.
Work of deputy prime ministers
- All deputy prime ministers will continue in their posts until the relevant presidential decrees are issued, Peskov noted.
- Vera Shcherbina will serve as acting governor of the Primorsky Region if Kozhemyako leaves for Moscow, the regional government reported.