Medvedev introduced Putin a new government structure

Meeting Putin and Medvedev. Photo from the Kremlin website

Given the fact that the current structure of the government has proved its performance, there are no fundamental changes, Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in Sochi (the Rossiy 24 television channel is transmitted on the Kremlin’s website ). Serious changes will affect only two ministries.

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The Ministry of Education and Science will be divided into the Ministry of Education (will be engaged in schools and secondary specialized education) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (scientific institutions and universities). “This will allow you to better concentrate our development capabilities of both the education system and the other education system,” Medvedev explained.
The Ministry of Communications will be transformed into the Ministry of Digital Development. “In order to realize the very digital agenda that the whole world is engaged in and which is absolutely relevant in our country, about which you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, spoke both in the message and in the decree of May 7 of this year,” the prime minister said as the justification of the proposed changes.
Fano will enter the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In addition, a special agency will be created that oversees education in the country (will control the secondary and higher school, as well as science).
Trade offices, which are now in the system of the Ministry of Economic Development, are transferred to the structure of the Ministry of Industry. According to Medvedev, "this will allow us to concentrate on issues of supporting the export of our industrial enterprises, our technological export abroad."
Medvedev will have 10 deputies, one more than in the last government.
Putin agreed with the prime minister’s proposals, and later a decree appeared on the Kremlin’s website with the new government structure . The names of ministers Medvedev will call Putin on Friday.

Context

About that. That the Ministry of Education and Science can be divided, earlier said the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Education Oleg Smolin. According to him, the field of education will probably be overseeing the current head of the department Olga Vasilieva, science - deputy minister Grigory Trubnikov.
On Tuesday, the Kommersant wrote about the possible creation of the Ministry of Complex on the basis of the Ministry of Communications on Tuesday. According to the publication, the author of the idea is the deputy head of the government apparatus Maxim Akimov, who oversees the digital economy and who may be appointed deputy prime minister. The candidate for the post of head of the new ministry is the head of the analytical center under the Government of the Russian Federation Konstantin Noskov.

Medvedev’s proposals to change the structure of the government are clearly cosmetic. Meanwhile, at a recent meeting with Medvedev, the head of the Center for Strategic Development (CSR) Alexei Kudrin, by

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