A billboard reads: "We work for you 24 hours." The State Duma members made the work of titanic extent to rescue the new PM from excessive duties.
Photo: Vladimir Milovidov
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Putin Adjusts Cabinet to His Liking
Vladimir Putin will avoid the routine once he steps down as Russia’s president to emerge as prime minister. The respective bill transferring a sizeable portion of the government’s duties to the authorized bodies of executive power has been submitted to the State Duma, signaling the reorganization of future cabinet has been set into motion.
The bill on amending certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation to improve execution of government’s authority introduces the changes in 150 acts actually. Its masterminds are State Duma Chairman Vladimir Pligin and his deputy Alexander Moskalets, both from United Russia, and the aggregate proposal is to sink roughly 500 of 3,000 government’s duties to lower level, committing the bureaucrats of ministries, departments, services and state committees to execute them.
Although the masterminds claim that “the matter at stake is solution of technical problem” and that the law will simply relieve the government of excessive work always carried out by ministries, the sources say that the amendments will enable the government to focus on strategic tasks.
The bill that is clearly beyond the scope of purely technical nature, signals that government’s reorganization is imminent. It looks like in Putin’s cabinet, the prime minister will retain the right to set tasks and call to account for progress in their accomplishment, but all other problems will be the concern of subordinates. Of interest is that the authority transfer extends to all fields but for defense, security and public order protection – the issues that Putin has always regarded within his exclusive competence it time of the presidency.
In essence, the structure of new government will copy the pattern applied in time of the second presidential term of Vladimir Putin – a leader focused on strategy and a technical executive body that is subordinate to him. But the scale is to be different – just the government instead of the whole country.
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All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 25, 2008
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