Political groups under Vladimir Putin's presidency

As Saint-Petersburg - Connection (also called " St. Petersburg Putin Clan " short Piter clan or Putin clan ) (Russian Санкт - Петербургский клан Путина, abbreviated Питерский клан or Питерская команда ) is a group of men in the Russian administration and the state of the economy have called that dominated Russian politics since the appointment of Vladimir Putin in 2000. It is believed that they form a political roped.

Known members

(Selection, with most, including former, offices and posts )

  • Vladimir Putin: chief of the FSB, the Russian prime minister and president
  • Dmitry Medvedev: Chairman of Gazprom, Prime Minister and President.
  • Alexei Miller: Gazprom CEO
  • Dmitry Kozak: administrative head of the district southern Russia, Deputy Prime Minister
  • Boris Gryzlov: Interior Minister, Chairman of the Duma and the "Putin party" United Russia
  • Gref German: Minister, Chairman of Gazprom, Sberbank and Svyazinvest
  • Leonid Reiman: Minister for Information Technology and Communications
  • Yuri Shevchenko: Health Minister
  • Viktor Ivanov: head of the presidential staff, CEO of Aeroflot
  • Sergei Ivanov: defense minister, first deputy prime minister
  • Nikolai Patrushev: FSB chief, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
  • Gennady Nikolayevich Timchenko, Russian- Finnish oligarch, oil traders, major shareholder of the company Gunvor
  • Brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, Putin's friends from Judo Club, " self-made " oligarchs
  • Zhores Ivanovich Alferov: Nobel Prize winner, member of the Duma, Vice- President of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Ilya Klebanov: Vice - Governor of St. Petersburg, Minister of Industry and Science, Deputy Prime Minister, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the North - West region
  • Andrei Fursenko: Deputy. Minister of Industry and Science, Minister of Education and Science
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