Martovskie Idas

The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade in the near future will be significantly reorganized or completely eliminated. This is written on Monday, referring to sources in the government and the presidential administration, many central newspapers.

So, according to the "news time", the last day of the ministry’s work in its current form will come on February 18. "Independent newspaper" clarifies that in mid -February, the foreign economic unit can be removed from the structure of the ministry. This block includes four departments, on the basis of which an agency can be created, which is directly subordinate to the Prime Minister, not Martu.

The newspaper Gzt.ru believes that the Ministry of Economic Development will not survive the inevitable reorganization of the government, which will begin after the change of president and the approval of Vladimir Putin as prime minister.

Putin was ready to rebuild the Ministry of Economic Development, sharing his functions between the Ministry of Regional and the Ministry of Finance, already in September 2007, when his many years of Gref left from there. However, Gref persuaded the president to wait.

Leading employees are already leaving from Mart. On January 26, Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov dismissed the deputy head of the Ministry of Stanislav Kuznetsov. Following him, according to sources in the government, the heads of departments of macroeconomic forecasting are allegedly prepared-Andrei Klepach, socio-economic reforms-Said Batkibecs and investment policy-Svetlana Ganeyeva. However, as Kommersant writes, the interlocutors in the ministry, who wished to remain unnamed, said that so far only the issue of Ganeyeva was finally resolved. Surrounded by Klepach noted that "he was surprised to learn about the possibility of his resignation." And with Batkibekov and Androsov, an agreement was allegedly reached, according to which they will not leave the ministry until the presidential election on March 2.