Article: RUSSIA: PUTIN COMPLETES CABINET SELECTION...(President Vladimir Putin)(Brief Article)

Russian President Vladimir Putin on 22 May announced that all slots in his cabinet have been filled. Two days earlier, he had appointed Aleksei Gordeev as deputy prime minister and agriculture minister, replacing Vladimir Shcherbak, and Aleksandr Gavrin as energy minister, replacing Viktor Kalyuzhnyi. Gavrin is the mayor of Kogalym in the Khanty-Mansii Autonomous Okrug. Yevgenii Volk of the Heritage Foundation in Moscow told RFE/RL that "one can call it a coalition government, since representatives of the Berezovskii-Abramovich group are ...

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