Putin's government returned to Medvedev: what is behind the permutations

The prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, announced his candidates for Deputy Prime Ministers. The permutations at first glance are serious-if Vladimir Putin approves such a government structure, only one of 9 deputy prime ministers will not remain with the previous powers, and Medvedev will have six new deputies at once. But there are almost no new persons among the new deputy prime ministers, and the government becomes like Vladimir Putin’s office in 2008-only without Alexei Kudrin. His new purpose continues to be the main intrigue.

What is changing

• Five operating deputy deputies Dmitry Medvedev-Arkady Dvorkovich, Sergey Prikhodko, Dmitry Rogozin and Alexander Khloponin and Igor Shuvalov did not receive nominations for the posts of Deputy Prime Ministers. In the Duma, Medvedev also did not name the name of Yuri Trutnev, but he will remain Deputy Prime Minister, Interfax said . The source surrounded by Khloponin told The Bell that the composition of the government may not be final, and indicated that the powers of Khloponin (ecology, national policy and the North Caucasus, as well as the regulation of the alcohol market) did not get anyone. “[Khloponinin] consultations are held, it is not yet clear whether it will remain or not, and in what capacity,” said The Bell's interlocutor.
• In addition to Trutnev, their posts will retain three deputy prime miners-Olga Golodets, Dmitry Kozak and Vitaly Mutko. But all of them will change the profile - instead of social policy, they will deal with culture and sports, Kozak - instead of construction and regional development by industry and energy, and Mutko - construction instead of sports and youth policy.
• If all the proposals of Medvedev are accepted (United Russia approved them, now the case is for Vladimir Putin), as many as six new deputy prime ministers will appear in the government. But newcomers can only be called with a stretch, and the number of “young technocrats” can only be attributed to the native of the progressive Kaluga region of Maxim Akimov:

• Three of the new candidates in the past already held ministerial posts, two worked in the government. Only one of the candidates, Konstantin Chuychenko, never worked in the government or in any of the ministries, but to call the “new face” of the chief lawyer of Gazprom in the 2000s and the many years of the President’s control department.
• Personnel resources in the head of the president are completely exhausted, concluding a former senior official, familiar with all candidates from the new government. In composition, the new government is more reminiscent of the government of Vladimir Putin in the 2008 model, political scientist Mikhail Vinogradov told Kommersant.

How decisions were made

• The composition of the deputy prime ministers was determined at the last moment, and the decisions were a surprise to almost everyone-both those who leave the post and new candidates, the sources of The Bell in the old and future government say. The predictable was perhaps the departure from the government of Shuvalov. Changes in the ministerial staff have not yet been discussed, clarity with candidates will only be closer to May 16, a source in the government told The Bell.
• Possible resignation was a “complete surprise” at least for Arkady Dvorkovich and Dmitry Rogozin, the sources of The Bell say-both expected to save posts and found out that they did not fall into the list of deputy prime ministers, only today. The powers of Dvorkovich are already distributed between other people, the chances that he will remain in the government in one form or another, a little source says. And the appointment of Vitaly Mutko by the curator of construction was a surprise even for Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the Open Media claims .

What remains incomprehensible

• The fate of Alexei Kudrin remains a mystery. Until May 7, a relatively harmonious picture of the future economic bloc of the government and the presidential administration consisted of the sources. Putin’s assistant Andrei Belousov was read to the economic deputy prime ministers, and Kudrin in AP, where, according to FT, he could engage in relations with the West.
• Today, one of these events did not happen-instead of Belousov, Anton Siluanov appeared in the list of candidates for Deputy Prime Ministers. Bloomberg previously wrote that the appointment of Belousov was to “create a counterweight” by Kudrin's influence. According to political scientist Mikhail Vinogradov, Siluanov’s appointment “symbolizes a certain Kudrin influence”. However, the final configuration of the economic bloc will become clear only by postponements in AP.

What am I to me?

So far, there is a feeling that there are too few new faces for the government of an economic breakthrough in the office. “This composition is to go with the flow,” says a former senior official. However, on the most urgent issue for business - whether taxes will increase - the personnel of the government will not affect, he is sure. Taxes will grow in any case - after all, a huge budget deficit has already been laid down in the plans .

Peter Mironenko, Irina Malkova, Svetlana Reuters