On two fronts

His deputy was the deputy head of the Presidential Administration for Domestic Policy, Mikhail Ostrovsky. The Council also included the new head of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus' Cornelius. Sobyanin is no stranger to participating in church affairs. For many years he worked in the North, was the first deputy governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug, where the Russian Orthodox Church takes an active part in social programs. Let's see if Sobyanin will be able to spread the successful regional experience throughout the country.