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A week to the day after having thanked Dmitri Medvedev and appointed Mikhail Michoustin to the post of Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday evening the composition of the new government team. Few major changes, but many departures all the same.
With our correspondent in Moscow, Daniel Vallot
The heavyweights of the outgoing government have all been re-elected, starting with the irremovable Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs, Sergei Shoigu and Sergei Lavrov.
But Vladimir Putin having spoken a week ago of the desire for change of his fellow citizens, and he nevertheless landed a certain number of personalities, in sectors which have become very sensitive in Russia: Sports, Education, Health or Culture again.
The new team will aim to revive the Russian economy and especially to implement the famous "national projects" promised in 2018 and which are slow to materialize. Infrastructure and modernization works which could amount to around 400 billion euros by 2024.
Among the newcomers to this government, one person will be scrutinized with great attention: it is Andrei Belousov, who was economic advisor to Vladimir Putin and who becomes 60 years old Deputy Prime Minister.
Why so much attention? Well, because in 2008, the Deputy Prime Minister at the time was called Dmitri Medvedev , and it was he that Vladimir Putin had chosen to succeed him as president.
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