Earthquake within the Russian authorities. Russian media reported, citing the assertion of the Federation Council, the higher home of the Russian parliament, that Vladimir Putin proposed that Andrei Belousov be the brand new protection minister. Which means that Sergei Shoigu is leaving the ministry after 11 years. This isn’t the one change.
Sergei Shoigu /MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV / AFP /East Information
The Federation Council introduced in an announcement on Telegram that it had obtained candidacies proposed by Vladimir Putin for the heads of a lot of ministries and departments.
The important thing change befell within the Ministry of Protection. The Russian chief nominated First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov for this place.
The present Minister of Protection, Sergei Shoigu (he has held this place since November 6, 2012) won’t stay unemployed, as he has been appointed chairman of the Safety Council of the Russian Federation.
The earlier head of the Council was Nikolai Patrushev, who was dismissed from this place by presidential decree. The Kremlin introduced that he could be transferred to a different, but unknown place.
The Kremlin argues that Vladimir Putin needs the Ministry of Protection to be totally open to improvements and new concepts. That is why the selection fell on Andrei Belousov.
Belousov is an economist by occupation. He has held public features since 2006. Beforehand, he was the primary deputy prime minister within the earlier authorities of Mikhail Mishustin and served as prime minister for a while. Beforehand, he was Vladimir Putin’s financial advisor for a few years.
There have been no adjustments in different key ministries and departments for the Russian president. That means that:
- Vladimir Kolokoltsev will proceed to be the Minister of Inner Affairs,
- Alexander Kurenkov will proceed to be the Minister for Emergency Conditions,
- Sergei Lavrov will proceed to be the Minister of Overseas Affairs,
- Konstantin Chuychenko will proceed to be the Minister of Justice,
- Sergey Naryshkin will proceed to be the director of the Overseas Intelligence Service (SVR),
- Alexander Bortnikov will proceed to be the director of the Federal Safety Service (FSB),
- Viktor Zolotov will proceed to be the commander of the Federal Service of the Nationwide Guard Troops,
- Dmitry Kochnev will proceed to be the commander of the Federal Safety Service (FSO).
The candidacies of the ministries of energy and the minister of overseas affairs are submitted not by the pinnacle of presidency, however by the president; they’re permitted not by the State Duma, however by the Federation Council. Sergei Shoigu is the one minister whom the president proposed to not reappoint.
For the second time in trendy Russian historical past, Shoigu won’t maintain a ministerial place within the Russian authorities. He has been a minister since 1991, with a six-month break in 2012, when he was appointed governor of the Moscow Oblast.
The Federation Council introduced that deputies will maintain consultations on the candidates proposed by the Russian chief on the conferences to be held on Monday and Tuesday.
