Putin chose Kasyanov's government
Alexey Kudrin (Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance), Valentina Matvienko, Viktor Khristenko, Ilya Klebanov (Deputy Prime Ministers), Igor Shuvalov (Minister, Chief of Staff of the Government), Gennady Bukaev (Minister of Taxes and Duties), German Gref (Minister of Economic Affairs development and trade), Nikolay Aksenenko (Minister of Railways), Evgeny Adamov (Minister of Atomic Energy), Leonid Reiman (Minister of Communications and Informatization), Farit Gazizulin (Minister of Property Relations), Ilya Yuzhanov (Minister of Antimonopoly Policy), Alexander Dondukov (Minister of Industry, Science and Technology), Viktor Kalyuzhny (Minister of Fuel and Energy), Boris Yatskevich (Minister of Natural Resources), Vladimir Filippov (Minister of Education), Yuri Shevchenko (Minister of Health), Mikhail Shvydkoy (Minister of Culture), Mikhail Lesin ( Minister of Press), Alexander Blokhin (Minister of Federation Affairs), Alexander Pochinok (Minister of Labor), Sergei Frank (Minister of Transport).

Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 88 dated May 19, 2000, p. 1