RBC: The first deputy head of AP will be Kiriyenko

The new first deputy head of the presidential administration was the curator of domestic politics instead of Vyacheslav Volodin, nominated to the State Duma speakers, the general director of Rosatom, former Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko, will be most likely. This was reported by RBC with reference to sources close to the Kremlin and the White House.

Earlier, the interlocutors of the newspaper called the head of the department of public projects by AP Pavel Zenkovich, the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov, the general director of VGTRK Oleg Dobroduev and the Secretary of the Public Chamber, the co -chairman of the Central Staff, Alexander Brechalov.

However, they noticed the publication, now in the Kremlin they most often talk about Kiriyenko.

The press secretary of the Rosatom CEO Sergey Novikov told RBC that he did not comment on rumors. In turn, the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov in response to the question of the publication limited himself to the remark: "This is a new version."

Kiriyenko 54 years old. In 1984, he joined the CPSU; In the last years of Soviet power, he was the secretary of the Gorky regional committee of the Komsomol. After the collapse of the USSR, he worked in business, including oil. In May - November 1997, the first deputy minister, then the Minister of Fuel and Energy of Russia.

On April 24, 1998, after the resignation of Viktor Chernomyrdin, he was appointed Prime Minister. President Boris Yeltsin, representing Kiriyenko, emphasized his young age and inexperience. After that, the premiere was nicknamed the people of Kindersurprise. Less than four months later, the August default happened, and on August 23, Yeltsin sent Kiriyenko to resign.

In 1999, the former prime minister became one of the leaders of the Union of Right Forces, who actively participated in the advance of Putin to the post of head of state.

In 2000-2005, Kiriyenko was Putin's envoy in the Volga Federal District. Then he headed Rosatom. This state corporation is considered close to the sphere of interests of the oligarchs of the Kovalchuk brothers, Putin's friends.