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Putin’s Cabinet to Have 11 Vice Premiers
There will be 11 vice premiers in the cabinet that Vladimir Putin will head May 8, Gazeta (GZT.RU) reported with reference to an anonymous source in the Kremlin.
Current PM Viktor Zubkov will be one of them. He will be accompanied by today’s vice premiers Alexander Zhukov, Alexei Kudrin and Sergei Naryshkin. As to Sergei Naryshkin, he might be replaced by Igor Sechin. Alexei Gromov, the current briefer of Putin, will probably become the vice premier for education, culture and mass media.
Current First Vice Premier Sergei Ivanov is likely to get the office of Security Council secretary, but this scenario will be implemented if the Security Council is chosen to counterbalance Dmitry Medvedev. A compromise figure for future president and prime minister, Vladislav Surkov will take over the president’s administration.
And last but not least, the RF Government Act will be probably amended in the nearest month. The matter at stake is Clause 32 of Chapter 5 that had been proposed by Boris Yeltsin and that authorizes the president to directly control enforcement bodies and foreign ministry. Once this clause is crossed out of the law, the prime minister will be more powerful than president.
In the Kremlin, they denied rumors about the strength of Putin’s government. “All this information doesn’t correspond to reality,” a top-ranked source with the president’s administration told Interfax, specifying that GZT.RU uses the sources that base their conclusions on various rumors.
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