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New government composition approved
President Vladimir Putin approved the composition of the new cabinet. The list of ministers at a meeting in Sochi was announced to him by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
on the approval of the new composition of the government reports Interfax . Evgeny Zinichev was appointed to the post of head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, who was Vladimir Putin's security guard for 9 years, and then headed the FSB in the Kaliningrad region, moved to the post of acting. O. governor of this region, and then became deputy director of the FSB.
The Ministry of Education and Science was divided into two different departments. The Ministry of Education will be headed by ex-Minister of Education Olga Vasilyeva, and the Minister of Science and Higher Education will be the head of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations, Mikhail Kotyukov. Konstantin Noskov will become the head of the Ministry of Communications.
The governor of the Tyumen region Vladimir Yakushev became the Minister of Housing and Public Utilities and Construction, the Ministry of Agriculture was headed by the son of Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev Dmitry Patrushev. The Ministry of Transport will be headed by Evgeny Dietrich, who previously was the first deputy head of the department, and the Ministry of Natural Resources will be headed by the governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Dmitry Kobylkin.
Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, who will also take the post of First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Maxim Oreshkin, Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, Minister of Social Protection Maxim Topilin, Minister of Energy Alexander Novak and Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.
As for the deputy prime ministers, Anton Siluanov will become Medvedev's first deputy, Dmitry Kozak will oversee industry and energy, Vitaly Mutko - construction and regional policy, Tatyana Golikova will become deputy prime minister for social policy and health care, Olga Golodets - for culture and sports, Alexei Gordeev will oversee agriculture, and the defense industry will be overseen by the current Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov. The government apparatus will be headed by Konstantin Chuichenko.
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