The second in line

The first Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, after the presidential election, can head the government, writes Kommersant on Tuesday with reference to a source close to the Kremlin. "It will be positional to the format of the vice president," the source claims. Before the elections, according to these data, there will be no large caduli permutations.

If the president of the current first deputy prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, whose candidacy was supported by Vladimir Putin, the presidential administration may be headed by Vladislav Surkov. Now he holds the post of deputy head of the administration.

A high-ranking source in the Kremlin told the newspaper that Igor Shuvalov, head of the expert department Arkady Dvorokovich, and the head of the press service and information department of the President Natalya Timakova, who oversaw the successor project in relation to Mr. Medvedev, were considered the closest to Medvedev by Medvedev.

In the government to the team Dmitry Medvedev, it is customary to attribute ministers working with national projects. This is the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina, which Medvedev himself was recommended to the ministers, Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev, head of the Ministry of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko, Minister of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova. The source of Medvedev in the government was the source of the publication was attributed to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, as well as the head of the Ministry of Regional Development of Dmitry Kozak.

However, several experts surveyed by the newspaper expressed the opinion that Medvedev will use very relative freedom in the selection of associates, and Vladimir Putin will be engaged in the formation of his team.