We kept it for a year and a half

Lawyer and classmate of Medvedev Nikolai Vinnichenko constantly darts between prosecutorial structures and embassies. In St. Petersburg, he worked his way up the ranks of the city prosecutor's office quite stubbornly, but in 2001 he was transferred to the office of Plenipotentiary Representative Viktor Cherkesov, where he worked for some time as the chief federal inspector for St. Petersburg. In 2003, he returned to the city prosecutor's office, which he headed. A year later, he was appointed director of the Federal Bailiff Service - not formally a prosecutorial structure, but essentially the same punitive authorities. In 2008, the top management, who continually puzzled over who would best make such valuable employees as plenipotentiary representatives, decided that the best plenipotentiary representatives hatched from bailiffs, and so Vinnichenko became the plenipotentiary representative of the president in the Ural Federal District and even built a palace for himself. And in 2011 he was returned to his native Northwestern Federal District, also as plenipotentiary. However, he spent a year and a half, and then a decision was made to return him to the prosecutorial structures, only higher than the subject of the federation. As Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika has already sent a letter to the Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, in which he nominated Vinnichenko for appointment by the upper house to the post of his deputy.

Well, a security official has again been appointed plenipotentiary representative in the Northwestern Federal District - former First Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Vladimir Bulavin. Maybe this is a new idea - to supply plenipotentiaries from the Security Council structures. However, this is not so interesting: as far as one can judge, recently neither the plenipotentiaries, except perhaps those in the status of minister and deputy prime minister, respectively, Viktor Ishaev (Far Eastern Federal District) and Alexander Khloponin (North Caucasus), nor the Security Council they do not play any special role in Russian politics.