The only new man in president’s administration is Konstantin Chuichenko, who is in charge of control department. Chuichenko has never worked either in the Kremlin or in the government until recently, but was Medvedev’s course-mate at the Leningrad University.
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New President Has the Team of the Old One
In line with expectations, the bureaucrats once chosen by Vladimir Putin will proceed with working for Russia’s new President Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev appointed his 13 aids and advisers yesterday, of whom only one, Konstantin Chuichenko, could be viewed as the man personally close to the president.
Dmitry Medvedev has appointed his aids, the briefer and the chief of the presidential protocol. Unlike Vladimir Putin, who set to attracting his mates straight after taking the Kremlin office in 2000, the bureaucrats promoted by Medvedev are seen practically nowhere.
The only new man in president’s administration is Konstantin Chuichenko, who is in charge of control department. Chuichenko has never worked either in the Kremlin or in the government until recently, but was Medvedev’s course-mate at the Leningrad University. In the latest years, Chuichenko was the Management Committee member at Gazprom (Medvedev chaired the BOD of this gas monopoly), supervising gas supplies to Ukraine there.
Chuichenko had no comments for media yesterday. “The appointment of Chuichenko is at last the appointment of Medvedev’s man to a vital office,” said Vladimir Pribylovsky, head of Panorama Information and Research Center. But for Chuichenko, the people that worked for Putin will proceed with advising Medvedev. Of interest is that not only the bureaucrats in offices but also the scope of their duties survived the change of presidents in Russia, proving the policy continuity better than any statements.
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All the Article in Russian as of May 14, 2008
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