Major Kremlin Administration Officials Retain Positions as Putin Announces Reshuffle

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has singed decrees appointing Kremlin administration officials, which keep major staff members in their positions. Anton Vaino has been re-appointed as administration chief of staff. All of his deputies, as well as most of the president’s aides and advisers have also retained their positions.

Appointment documents have been published on the Kremlin website on Wednesday.

 In particular, first deputy administration chiefs of staff Sergei Kiriyenko and Alexei Gromov have been re-appointed, as well as deputy administration chiefs of staff Vladimir Ostrovenko and Magomedsalam Magomedov and presidential aides Andrei Belousov, VladislavSurkov, Igor Levitin, Yuri Ushakov and Andrei Fursenko.

Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has also retained his position.

Putin has re-appointed six of his advisers – Sergei Glazyev, Mikhail Fedotov, VeniaminYakovlev, Anton Kobyakov, Vladimir Tolstoy and Alexandra Levitskaya.

Meanwhile, presidential aides Yevgeni Shkolov and Vladimir Kozhin, as well as presidential advisers German Klimenko and Sergei Grigorov, have been dismissed.

As for another two presidential aides – Nikolai Tsukanov and Igor Shegolev – and adviser Alexander Bedritsky, the Kremlin has not yet made announcements about them.

TASS

R.S