RTVI: Sergei Lavrov will not join the new government
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergei Lavrov, will leave his post and will not join the new government, RTVI reports , citing several sources close to the foreign ministry. For several years now, Lavrov has wanted to leave the position he has held since 2004, but at the urgent request of President Vladimir Putin, he is refining it in the current composition of the Cabinet of Ministers.