POLITBURO 2012: Political scientists came up with the list of most powerful people in Russian politics
POLITBURO 2012: Political scientists came up with the list of most powerful people in Russian politics – Moskovskiye Novosti 8.22.12 [no link available to English-language version]
Moskovskiye Novosti listed out leading figures in Russian politics by category or venue, indicating they were basing their list on analysis from Minchenko Consulting that “determined individuals’ closeness to the pinnacle of political power where all decisions are made. They came up with an analog of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the defunct CPSU:”
Politburo members:
Vladimir Putin president
Dmitry Medvedev prime minister
Sergei Ivanov presidential administration director
Igor Sechin the head of Rosneft
Gennadi Timchenko co-owner of Gunvor
Yuri Kovalchuk Russia bank CEO
Sergei Chemezov Russian Technologies director general
Sergei Sobyanin mayor of Moscow
Vyacheslav Volodin senior assistant director of the
presidential administration
Politburo candidates:
Aleksei Kudrin ex-minister (finances)
Kirill patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Vladimir Zhirinovsky LDPR leader
Gennadi Zyuganov CPRF leader
Sergei Mironov Fair Russia leader
Mikhail Prokhorov businessman
Sergei Naryshkin Duma chairman
Anatoly Chubais the head of Russian Nanotechnologies
Alexander Voloshin presidential administration ex-director
Secretariat of the Central Committee:
Igor Shuvalov senior deputy premier
Alexander Khloponin presidential plenipotentiary
representative in the Caucasus Federal Region
Vladislav Surkov deputy premier
Dmitry Kozak deputy premier
Sergei Lavrov foreign minister
Elvira Nabiullina presidential aide
Anton Vaino assistant director of the presidential administration
Dmitry Peskov president’s press secretary
Aleksei Gromov assistant director of the presidential administration
Business:
Vladimir Kozhin – chief of the directorate of presidential affairs
Roman Abramovich Sibneft ex-owner
Aleksei Miller the head of Gazprom
Vladimir Yakunin Russian Railways president
Arkady Rotenberg SMP-bank and Stroigazmontazh co-owner
Herman Gref the head of Sberbank
Vladimir Potanin Interros owner
Oleg Deripaska Basic Element owner
Mikhail Fridman Alfa-Group observatory council chairman
Regional leaders:
Alisher Usmanov co-owner of Russia’s largest steel works
Victor Vekselberg Skolkovo foundation president and Renova CEO
Vagit Alekperov president and co-owner of Russia’s largest oil companies
Aleksei Mordashov Severstal and Severgrup director general
Vladimir Yevtushenkov AFK Sistema owner
Georgy Poltavchenko St.Petersburg governor
Sergei Shoigu governor of the Moscow regional
Rustam Minnikhanov the head of Tatarstan
Ramzan Kadyrov the head of Chechnya
Siloviki:
Alexander Bortnikov FSB director
Vladimir Kolokoltsev interior minister
Alexander Bastrykin Russian Investigative Committee chairman
Victor Ivanov the head of Drug Enforcement Committee
Victor Zolotov chief of presidential security
Yevgeny Murov Federal Service of Protection director
Yevgeny Shkolov presidential aide
Nikolai Patrushev Security Council secretary
Anatoly Serdyukov defense minister.
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