It seems Ivanov

As it became known to the Frances.ru, a draft change and additions to the current Constitution, prepared by the ex-assistant of the President of the Russian Federation for legal issues Mikhail Krasnov and the first deputy head of the presidential administration Dmitry Medvedev, not only gives the head of state the right to appoint and remove the Prosecutor General without the help of the upper house of the parliament. Not only provides for an increase in the deadline for the presidency to 5 years and the enlargement of approximately 30 regions, primarily in Central Russia, to 6 or 7, to minimize the influence of the left opposition, which won the autumn-winter elections of the heads of regions .

In the Krasnov-Medvedev Project, the Institute of Vice President is as if in detail. And this, according to the informed interlocutor of the faces in the presidential administration, promises a sharp change in the entire power structure.

The key point, the Kremlin official emphasized, is that the vice president will simultaneously head the federal government. Thus, according to the source, as if overcame the "biceps" of the executive branch, which was getting from the communist period with its party-Soviet dualism, which gently migrated to the Yeltsin constitution. The government, therefore, will actually become a presidential structure. With all the ensuing consequences.

Further, the source continues, the operational responsibility for coordinating the office of the office will be entrusted to the first deputy prime minister. Another first deputy prime minister will probably coordinate the activities of the power community. It is planned that in the May-July of the current year, the administration will be able to sell federal constitutional laws on the powers of the vice president and its functions as a federal prime minister through parliament. Corresponding amendments to the current constitution will have to approve the legislative assemblies of the regions.

Already at the very first acquaintance with this idea, it is easy to guess that they want to mount the top of the federal pyramid to specific figures. According to knowledgeable people in the administration, Sergey Ivanov, Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Federation, will most likely be proposed to the post of vice president Putin.

The first deputy prime minister coordinating the activities of the Cabinet of Ministers - the reader probably also guessed this - it is supposed to appoint the current chairman of the government Mikhail Kasyanov. Of course, in the environment of Putin there are other points of view on this subject.

Our Kremlin interlocutor does not exclude that "if, for a number of reasons, GDP changes his mind and appoints Kudrin, then Kasyanov will ask himself the post of chairman of the Central Bank."

All of the above to a certain extent confirms the version of the new package agreement that we have already given between Putin and his entourage, on the one hand, and the Yeltsin family on the other. The president gets the opportunity to reorganize law enforcement agencies and put his people there, as well as “at a reasonable pace” to promote their reforms of the power and state system of Russia. In exchange, Putin guarantees that Kasyanov will remain in his post, and the family through his creatures in key economic departments takes on a temporary odds for "coagulation of affairs".

How to change the constitution? Interview by Boris Nadezhdin and Sergey Popov - Polit.ru, 09.09.2000

In the photo AP: Vladimir Putin with Sergey Ivanov