Presidential Administration of Russia

The Russian Presidential Administration (Russian Администрация Президента России ) is in Russia a state agency that has the task to coordinate the exercise of office of the President. It was officially established on 19 July 1991 with a corresponding decree of then President Boris Yeltsin.

General

The Russian Presidential Administration today consists of 18 departments and employs 1547 staff (as of 2012). Each department is responsible for one or more specific areas of responsibility. The Chairman of the Presidential Administration is appointed by the President and is directly under him. From the establishment of the Authority until today their internal structure, staffing and task priorities has been modified several times, especially in the years 1996 and 2004 by respective presidential decrees.

The main tasks of the Russian Presidential Administration are now essentially:

  • Preparation of draft legislation for submission to the Duma, also formulation and preparation of the decrees, speeches, orders and other written documents;
  • Publication and monitoring compliance with the laws submitted by the President and the Presidential Decrees ( ukase );
  • Coordination of internal and external activities of the President;
  • Processing and forwarding the requests and suggestions of citizens, political, social or religious organizations and regional authorities to the President.

The Chairman of the Presidential Administration, pursuant to a decree from the year 2004, two deputies. For Presidential including the press secretary of the President, the presidential adviser, the authorized representative of the President in various State authorities and in the federal districts, also the representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights.

Chairman

The Chairman of the Russian presidential administration since the December 22, 2011 Sergei Ivanov. He is in his role reports to the incumbent President Dmitry Medvedev.

Former Chairman of the Presidential Administration were:

  • Sergei Naryshkin (2008-2011)
  • Dmitry Medvedev (2003-2005)
  • Nikolai Bordyuzha (1998-1999)
  • Anatoly Chubais (1996-1997)

Even the reigning from 2000 to 2008, President Putin was 1997-1998 Deputy Chief of the Presidential Administration under his predecessor Boris Yeltsin.

Departments of the Presidential

  • Apparatus of the Security Council
  • Apparatus of the Advisor to the President
  • Apparatus of the plenipotentiaries of the President in the federal regions
  • Secretariat of the Head of Administration
  • State Legal Administration
  • Office
  • Control management
  • Referentur
  • Secretariat of the Head of the Presidential Administration
  • Administration of Foreign Affairs
  • Administration for Domestic Policy
  • Administration for cadres and State Awards
  • Management issues for the civil service
  • Management for ensuring the constitutional rights of citizens
  • Information and documentation management
  • Administration for dealing with citizens' requests
  • Press and Information Management
  • Management for the organization protocol
  • Expert management
  • Management for international and cultural links with other countries

Senior staff of the Presidential

Line

  • Conductor: Sergei Ivanov
  • First Alternate: Vyacheslav Volodin
  • Deputy Alexei Gromov, Alexander Beglow

Advisor to the President

  • Alexander Abramov
  • Larisa Brytschewa
  • Arkady Dvorkovich
  • Oleg Markov
  • Dschachan Polyjewa
  • Sergei Prikhodko
  • Konstantin Tschuitschenko

Press Secretary to the President

  • Natalya Timakowa

Head of the Protocol Department of the President

  • Marina Jentalzewa

Authorised representatives of the President in the federal districts (acting)

  • Georgi Poltavchenko
  • Anatoli Kwaschinin
  • Pyotr Latyschew
  • Grigori Rapota
  • Oleg Safonov
  • Vladimir Ustinov

Advisor to the President (acting)

  • Yuri Laptev
  • Veniamin Yakovlev
  • Mikhail Zurabov
  • Leonid Reiman
  • Mikhail Trinoga

Plenipotentiary of the President in the organs of state power

  • Alexander Kotenkow
  • Alexander Kosopkin
  • Mikhail Krotov
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