Dmitry Peskov, on the photo, so far the first deputy president’s briefer, moves to the White House to work for Vladimir Putin in time of his PM tenure.
Photo: Dmitry Azarov
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White House of Russia Adjusted to Putin’s Taste
The RF government office went through the reorganization on the threshold of Putin’s premiership. Three new departments emerged Friday and the Kremlin bureaucrats were appointed as the PM briefer and the chief of public speech department.
Russia’s Present Vladimir Putin inked Friday a decree on amending the appointment register for federal state civil service. The document introduces new posts in the PM office – the PM briefer and the PM protocol chief in capacity of the deputy head of government office. It also spells out creation of government department and commits its 20 bureaucrats to write public speeches for the prime minister.
On the same day, today’s PM of Russia Viktor Zubkov inked a ruling specifying new strength of the government office (1,464 bureaucrats) and establishment of three departments, the press service, protocol and the public speech department, instead of the previous department of press service, information and protocol.
From now one, a head of the government office will have six deputies, including the PM briefer, protocol chief and the chief of the RF Government Military and Industrial Commission Office.
Zubkov appointed Anton Vaino, so far the deputy head of the government office, to take over the protocol service, while the remaining two employments went to the Kremlin bureaucrats. Dmitry Peskov was appointed the briefer and Dmitry Kalimulin will supervise the public speech preparation. Of interest is that both Peskov and Kalimulin have had no bureaucratic weight in president’s administration that could be deemed significant.
More bureaucrats are expected to move from the Kremlin to government. Deputy chief of presidential administration Igor Sechin is widely expected to take over the government office and president’s aide Viktor Ivanov may also leave the Kremlin for it.
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All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 28, 2008
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