The President of the Russian Federation has three new assistants

Former ministers who worked in the Russian government under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, after his assignment of the President of the Russian Federation, received new functions in the Kremlin administration, where they moved at the beginning of the week, the RIA Novosti website reports.

Earlier on Wednesday, the ex-head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Yuri Trutnev, was instructed to deal with questions through the State Council in the rank of the presidential assistant. Under President Dmitry Medvedev, Alexander Abramov was engaged in ensuring the activities of this body, who will now oversee the sport as adviser to Vladimir Putin.

Elvira Nabiullina, who left the post of head of the Ministry of Economic Development, was instructed as an assistant to the president to deal with economic issues that Arkady Dvorkovich previously oversaw, who became deputy prime minister Dmitry Medvedev in the real sector of the economy. The ex-head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova in the new Kremlin administration was instructed to be responsible for the unusual direction for her ─ socio-economic development of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The ex-minister of communications and mass communications, Igor Schegolev will continue to work “in the specialty” and will be engaged in the Kremlin IT technologies. Andrei Fursenko, who left the post of Minister of Science and Education, will oversee the sphere of scientific funds and grants for scientists.

Personnel issues in the Kremlin were entrusted to the assistant to the president, the head of the Board of Directors of Uralvagonzavod, Evgeny Shkolov . In this post, schools will be replaced by Oleg Markov.

The former deputy head of the government apparatus Yuri Ushakov, in turn, will deal with foreign policy issues that were previously under the jurisdiction of Sergei Prikhodko.

Commenting on the permutation in the leadership of the Kremlin administration, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that the president had only three new assistants.