Putin raised his niece Anna Tsivileva to the state secretary. Before that, she was ordinary deputy defense minister

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed his cousin Anna Tsivilev to the State Secretary-Deputy Minister of Defense. The corresponding decree was signed on August 17, TASS reports.

Prior to this, Tsivilev was an ordinary deputy minister.

There may be several deputies of the head of each federal department, while the state secretary is only one. Setters are responsible for the connection of the Ministry with parliament and other state bodies, as well as with public organizations.

• Tsivileeva became Deputy Minister of Defense in June, when the department was headed by Andrei Belousov instead of Sergei Shoigu.
• By May, the husband of TsIivelevo, until May, served as the governor of the Kemerovo region, and now he heads the Russian Ministry of Energy.