Putin appoints body for drive to improve homes, farms, schools, health care
Interfax
Moscow, 21 October: Russian President Vladimir Putin has, by his decree, formed a council to the head of state for the implementation of priority national projects, the presidential press service has said.
The members of the council are: presidential administration head Dmitriy Medvedev, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Zhukov, presidential aide Igor Shuvalov, Agriculture Minister Aleksey Gordeyev, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref, Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin, Health and Social Development Minister Mikhail Zurabov, Education and Science Minister Andrey Fursenko.
The council also includes presidential aide Anatoliy Beglov, Kaliningrad Region governor Georgiy Boos, Penza Region governor Vasiliy Bochkarev, Khabarovsk Territory governor Viktor Ishayev, Tyumen Region governor Sergey Sobyanin, Chelyabinsk Region governor Petr Sumin, St Petersburg State University rector Lyudmila Verbitskaya, Moscow mayor Yuriy Luzhkov, St Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko, Yaroslavl mayor Viktor Volonchunas, Novosibirsk mayor Vladimir Gorodetskiy, Yakutsk mayor Ilya Mikhalchuk.
The following were also made members of the council: the head of the presidential expert department, Arkadiy Dvorkovich; the head of Rosstroy [Federal Agency for Construction, Housing and Utilities], Sergey Kruglik; the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Yevgeniy Primakov; the head of the cabinet office, Sergey Naryshkin; the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuriy Osipov; Moscow State University rector Viktor Sadovnichiy; the chairman of the all-Russian voluntary organization Business Russia, Boris Titov.
Other members of the council are [all of] the presidential envoys to federal districts: Sergey Kiriyenko, Ilya Klebanov, Dmitriy Kozak, Anatoliy Kvashnin, Petr Latyshev, Georgiy Poltavchenko and Konstantin Pulikovskiy; Rostov Region governor Vladimir Chub, Nizhniy Novgorod Region governor Valeriy Shantsev, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs head Aleksandr Shokhin and Regional Development Minister Vladimir Yakovlev.