Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina, left, and Industry Minister Viktor Khristenko, right, are to agree on portfolio division at Presidium sitting.
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Government Summoned to Presidium
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will hold May 26 the first meeting of Presidium, which, de-facto, will be the second meeting of Putin’s government. The tough opposition of Presidium member, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina and just Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko is well-expected. Those ministers are yet unable to agree on dividing control over the foreign trade.
The first meeting of Presidium is scheduled for Monday, May 26, said Vice Premier and Government Office Chief Sergei Sobyanin. So, Monday has turned into a traditional day for Putin’s meetings with ministers. In president’s capacity, Putin had met with the cabinet also on Mondays.
The debates will be heated on May 26. President Dmitry Medvedev has OKed the new structure of government with the drastic changes extending to Economic Development and Trade Ministry and Industry and Energy Ministry. The former was reorganized into Economic Development Ministry, while the latter was stripped of the energy component but presented with the trade one.
The split of trading functions between those two ministries proved most painful. In the government, they say that Industry and Trade Ministry is eyeing all trading authority of the former Economic Development and Trade Ministry, while Nabiullina insists on retaining the foreign trade, giving the need to complete the WTO negotiations as the key reason.
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All the Article in Russian as of May 21, 2008
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