He said this during a meeting with members of the government.
“Our government turned out to be very balanced, we have a sufficient number of people who worked in the previous composition, but at the same time a very big update,” the head of state said.
According to TASS with reference to the presidential decree, Dmitry Grigorenko, Yuri Trutnev, Victoria Abramchenko, Yuri Borisov, Tatyana Golikova, Alexei Overchuk, Marat Khusnullin and Dmitry Chernyshenko were appointed deputy chairman in the renewed government.
According to RIA Novosti, Anton Siluanov, Konstantin Chuychenko, Maxim Akimov, Olga Golodets, Alexey Gordeev, Dmitry Kozak left the post of deputy prime ministers.
Earlier it was reported that the Prime Minister of Russia will have nine deputies.