IANS | 24 Jan, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed decrees appointing three former Cabinet members into his administration.
While
former Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin and former Culture
Minister Vladimir Medinsky were appointed as presidential aides, former
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak was named deputy chief of the
presidential office, reports TASS News Agency.
The development
comes after the former Russian government led by Prime Minister Dmitry
Medvedev resigned on January 15 after Putin proposed amendments to the
country's Constitution.
On January 21, Putin approved the makeup
of a new cabinet headed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, which
consists of nine Deputy Prime Ministers and 21 ministers.
As many as 15 members of the previous government failed to make it into the new cabinet.
