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Victory of Govt Office over Secretariat
First of all Russia’s prime ministers, Vladimir Putin will have no secretariat of his own. By his ruling, Putin liquidated that body of bureaucracy, preferring to confine to services of Vice Premier Sergei Sobyanin, who is the chief of the government’s office. Ex-chief of the president’s administration, Sobyanin has been granted with nearly all powers related to the PM work, starting from making out Putin’s schedule to his correspondence, but for the right to replace the country’s prime minister in time of his absence.
It emerged that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inked May 19 a ruling on the government’s office that liquidated his secretariat and made Sergei Sobyanin the person closest to him.
In addition to the secretariat, Vladimir Putin rejected services of aids and assistants independent from the power vertical and attracted since the time of Mikhail Kasyanov’s premiership. And last but not least, not only the government’s office is nearing Putin, the status of this body is rising vs. the government as a whole. To certain extent, it revives the status quo to which Putin was accustomed in the Kremlin. Then he used to have the president’s administration with functions well above the secretariat services.
Sergei Sobyanin arrived in the government office from the office of chief of the president’s administration as a bureaucrat of no uncontrolled personal ambitions. He showed himself to the public at large perhaps even more seldom than his deputy Vladislav Surkov, although more often than Igor Sechin. No wars or political intrigues were ever associated with his name in the Kremlin.
In Russia’s government, Vladimir Putin has given nearly all that he could to Sergei Sobyanin but for one vital authority. According to the revised distribution of vice premiers’ powers that the government’s web released Tuesday, not Sobyanin but Igor Shuvalov will stand for Putin in time of his absence.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of May 23, 2008
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