President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on optimizing the structure of the Kremlin administration. This was announced by his press secretary Dmitry Peskov. According to him, this is an “internal adjustment.” Later on Thursday, the decree was published on the Kremlin website.

According to the document, some administration departments have been assigned new functions. In addition, Putin signed a decree amending some presidential acts, Peskov added. According to him, instead of the decrees, a regulation on the presidential administration for the development of information and communication technologies, infrastructure and communications is approved.

On Wednesday, Putin approved the new composition of the presidential administration. their posts The entire top leadership retained : leader Anton Vaino, his two first deputies - Alexei Gromov and Sergei Kiriyenko, three deputies - Vladimir Ostrovenko, Magomedsalam Magomedov and Peskov. Presidential Assistant Evgeny Shkolov, Advisor on Internet Development German Klimenko, and others did not retain their posts. The fate of two more assistants - Igor Shchegolev and Nikolai Tsukanov - is still unknown: there are no decrees on their reassignment or resignation.

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