Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev , who accepted the offer of TV presenter Vladimir Pozner and became a guest on his program “Posner,” does not regret that he served as president for only one term. The current Prime Minister said that the work of the Prime Minister is also very interesting and very multifaceted.

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“As for what I did and didn’t have time to do, I probably managed to do some things, but I haven’t done some things yet. Life goes on. Therefore, I have an absolutely positive and optimistic attitude towards this,” said the Russian Prime Minister. According to him, the “castling” with current President Vladimir Putin was absolutely fair and legal.

Dmitry Medvedev touched upon the issue of forming a new cabinet of ministers. “I’ve recently been fed up with ministers who sometimes sleep during meetings,” said the Prime Minister, explaining the radical overhaul of the cabinet.

In addition, the prime minister explained why the head of the Ministry of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov retained his post, and the Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev lost his portfolio. According to D. Medvedev, A. Serdyukov is one of the most successful defense ministers in Russian history, but R. Nurgaliev had to be replaced. The Prime Minister emphasized that ex-ministers who went to work in the presidential administration will not have anything to do with the decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers.

We are talking about ex-Minister of Education Andrei Fursenko, former head of the Ministry of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev, who became assistants to the president, ex-Minister of Transport Igor Levitin , who took the post of adviser to the head of state. In addition, the Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina , the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Igor Shchegolev, as well as the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova also moved to the presidential administration .

According to D. Medvedev, he himself selected personnel for the new government, and V. Putin supported his choice 100%. “I’ll tell you a simple thing: it was my choice. This is the first. Second: the set of people that I gave to President Vladimir Putin as candidates for positions in the government - he supported everyone, one hundred percent. There are no people who appeared in any way - then in a different way,” Dmitry Medvedev said.

Vladimir Pozner's TV show will be shown on Channel One in the evening in Central Russia; the program is currently broadcast in the Far East.

Dmitry Medvedev is tired of ministers “who sleep at meetings”