Russia's PM Vladimir Putin Reshuffles Cabinet

World | September 25, 2007, Tuesday // 00:00

Russian President Vladmir Putin promoted Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin to deputy prime minister and named his longtime ally Dmitry Kozak as regional development minister in a new cabinet presented late on Monday.

Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref was replaced by his former deputy Elvira Nabiullina, while Deputy Finance Minister Tatyana Golikova took over from Mikhail Zurabov as health and social development minister. Golikova is the wife of Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko.

Putin refused to accept the resignation of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, who offered to quit last week because new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov is his father-in-law.

The Cabinet otherwise was left intact, with First Deputy Prime Ministers Sergei Ivanov and Dmitry Medvedev and the other ministers keeping their positions.

"I very much hope that ... the (new) Russian government will strive in the most decisive way to achieve the objectives ... we have formulated as strategic aims for the country's development," Putin told the new cabinet.

Putin reshuffled his cabinet after sacking Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and naming Zubkov, a little-known financial regulator, to replace him.

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