Mikhail Kasyanov's Cabinet (May 2000 - March 2004) was a cabinet of the government of the Russian Federation during most of Vladimir Putin 's first presidential term. It followed Vladimir Putin's Cabinet after Vladimir Putin became President of Russia and was replaced with Mikhail Fradkov's First Cabinet shortly before the presidential election of 2004 . It was led by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov , proposed by President Vladimir Putin after his inauguration on May 7 and approved by the State Duma and appointed Prime Minister by the President on May 17, 2000. Prior to this, Kasyanov was the Finance Minister in Vladimir Putin's Cabinet , and as Putin was promoted to acting President on December 31, 1999, de facto had led his cabinet since January 10, when he was appointed also First Deputy Prime Minister. Other 28 ministers were appointed by the President on May 18–20. Only six of them were new to the government: Gennady Bukaev , Alexander Dondukov , Alexander Gavrin , German Gref , Alexey Kudrin and Igor Shuvalov .
34-444: Viktor Alekseyevich Zubkov (Russian: Ви́ктор Алексе́евич Зубко́в , IPA: [ˈvʲiktər ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪdʑ zʊpˈkof] ; born 15 September 1941) is a Russian civil servant, politician and businessman who served as the 36th Prime Minister of Russia from September 2007 to May 2008. He was Vladimir Putin 's First Deputy Prime Minister during the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev . A civil servant who held various positions in
68-648: A Deputy Prime Minister, but remained the Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies. On November 6, Vladimir Yelagin was replaced with Stanislav Ilyasov as Minister for Coordination of the Development of the Chechen Republic. On March 11, 2003, Valentina Matviyenko was dismissed from her position of a Deputy Prime Minister for Welfare as she became the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to
102-580: A result of Emperor Alexander II's reforms; its first session began on 19 (31) December 1857. Before the actual formation of that body on 12 (24) November 1861, the Emperor himself was in charge. The Council of Ministers consisted of chairmen of the State Council and the Committee of Ministers, as well as high-ranking officers appointed by the Emperor. The first session ended on 11 (23) December 1882, after
136-596: The 2008 presidential election , effectively dashing Zubkov's hopes for the presidency. After Medvedev took office, Zubkov succeeded him as Chairman of Gazprom. Sanctioned by the UK government on 24 February 2023 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War . List of heads of government of Russia Approximately 38 people have been head of the Russian government since its establishment in 1905. The Council of Ministers of
170-484: The Chechen Republic was established and occupied by Vladimir Yelagin . On February 5, 2001, Alexander Gavrin was dismissed as Minister of Energy. On March 28, 2001, Igor Sergeyev was replaced with Sergei Ivanov as Defence Minister, Vladimir Rushaylo with Boris Gryzlov as Interior Minister, and Yevgeny Adamov with Alexander Rumyantsev as Minister for Atomic Energy. On June 16, 2001, Boris Yatskevich
204-1163: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Leningrad Oblast: Chairman of the Priozersk City Executive Committee, First Secretary of the Priozersk City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and head of the Department of Agriculture and Food Industry and the Agricultural Department of the Regional Committee of the CPSU. He was also First Deputy Chairman of the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee from 1989 to 1991. In January 1992 to November 1993, he
238-620: The Leningrad Oblast under the Soviet regime, he later served as advisor to Cabinet Ministers. Zubkov was a financial crime investigator until he was nominated on 12 September 2007 by President Vladimir Putin to replace Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov , who had resigned earlier that day. The nomination was approved in the Duma on 14 September 2007. On 7 May 2008 Zubkov's cabinet was automatically dismissed. This procedure, following an inauguration of
272-903: The Northwestern Federal District . On April 24 Boris Alyoshin was appointed Deputy Prime Minister for Industry and Galina Karelova Deputy Prime Minister for Welfare. On May 28 Igor Shuvalov was replaced with Konstantin Merzlikin as Minister, Chief of Staff of the Government. On June 16, a position of Deputy Prime Minister for Housing was established and assumed by Vladimir Yakovlev , who had just resigned as Governor of Saint Petersburg . On September 22, Minister of Railways Gennady Fadeyev resigned and became President of JSC Russian Railways . On October 9 Vadim Morozov became Minister of Railways. On November 1, Ilya Klebanov resigned as Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies and
306-593: The President of Russia is required by the Russian Constitution . After Putin became prime minister, Zubkov was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia . He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation . Now in his 80's Zubkov is still the current chairman of the board of directors of Gazprom , Russia's largest corporation and one of
340-586: The Supreme Council on 23 March 1946. The same was made in other republics of the Soviet Union . After the fall of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin , as the President of the Russian Federation , was appointed as the extraordinary head of government of the Russian Federation . The latter body took the name "Council of Ministers — Government of Russia", the chairman of which became Viktor Chernomyrdin , replacing acting chairman Yegor Gaidar . According to
374-620: The Financial Monitoring Committee of the ministry, aimed to fight money laundering . On 16 March 2004, after the dismissal of Mikhail Kasyanov's Cabinet , the Financial Monitoring Committee was renamed to Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Finance Ministry, but Zubkov retained his position in Mikhail Fradkov's First Cabinet and Mikhail Fradkov's Second Cabinet . In a 2006 survey of political experts, Zubkov
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#1733093608322408-628: The Highest Court (1756–62), the Imperial Council (1762) and finally the Council at the Highest Court (1768–1801) remained mostly advisory bodies to the monarch. The ministerial reform of 1802 introduced the Committee of Ministers, which competence was limited to interagency issues. The committee was not responsible for the activities of individual ministries and for the coherence of their policies. Beginning with Count Aleksandr Romanovich Vorontsov ,
442-690: The Russian Empire, created in November 1905, was preceded by a number of cabinet-like institutions. Oldest of them was the Supreme Privy Council, created in 1726 by the empress Catherine I . Considering weakness of her and her successor's powers, the Council acted as government of the Russian Empire until 1731. Its successor departments such as the Cabinet of Her Imperial Majesty (1731–41), the Conference at
476-721: The State Tax Inspection was reorganized into the Tax Ministry of Russia and Zubkov's deputy head position was abolished, but he was immediately reappointed Chief of the Saint Petersburg Directorate of the Tax Ministry. On 23 July 1999, Zubkov was appointed Deputy Tax Minister of Russia for the Northwestern region. In a few days he was also appointed Chief of the Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast Directorate of
510-438: The Tax Ministry. On 12 August 1999, he was registered as a contender in the Leningrad Oblast governor election, assisted by Boris Gryzlov as his election campaign manager, but lost the election to Valeriy Serdyukov on 19 September 1999, with 8.64 percent of the vote (4th place out of 16). On 5 November 2001, he left his positions in the Tax Ministry and was appointed First Deputy Finance Minister of Russia and Chairman of
544-705: The abolition of the committee on 23 April (5 May) 1906. By the order of Emperor Nicholas II , the second session of the Council of Ministers began on 19 October (1 November) 1905, following the formation of the State Duma . Shortly after the February Revolution and the inception of the Russian Provisional Government on 2 (15) March 1917, Georgy Lvov from the Constitutional Democratic Party became Minister-Chairman, who
578-407: The activities of their departments individually. The committee was not responsible either for the activities of individual ministries, or for the coherence of their policies. During the first years of the existence of the committee, its meetings were chaired by the Emperor, and in his absence - by the ministers alternately, starting with the senior in rank, each for 4 sessions. In 1810, the chairmanship
612-483: The eldest of the officers was de facto chairman of the committee. Eight years after the inauguration of the manifest, the first de jure office holder was Count Nikolay Rumyantsev . According to the tradition established over time, the chairmanship of the committee was the last honorary position, to which elderly respected officials were appointed. The Council of Ministers was unofficially formed in October 1857, as
646-500: The formation of its own Council of People's Commissars on 6 July 1923, the Council of People's Commissars of Russia temporarily acted as the government of the USSR. On 23 March 1946, the Council of People's Commissars was renamed into the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. Mikhail Kasyanov%27s Cabinet On November 28, 2000, the position of Minister for Coordination of the Development of
680-646: The largest oil and natural gas companies in the world. Born in Sverdlovsk Oblast , Zubkov graduated from the Economic Department of the Leningrad Agriculture Institute in 1972. In 1966, he was drafted to the Soviet Army for an 18-month term. From 1967 to 1985, he worked on leading positions in kolkhozes of Leningrad Oblast . From 1985 to 1991, he occupied several leading positions in
714-518: The ministries and directorates have been declared part of the unified state management. The first Prime Minister was Count Sergei Witte , who was appointed on 6 November 1905. After the alleged abdication of Nicholas II from the throne in favor of his brother Michael , Michael also abdicated, before the convening of the Constituent Assembly . On 14 September 1917, the Russian Republic
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#1733093608322748-771: The move as a way to renew a competition between possible successors. Another theory suggested that Putin chose a man of unquestioning loyalty to help him control powerful factions jostling for position inside the Kremlin. Another clue to his usefulness lies in Zubkov's experience under Putin as the man leading the fight against financial crime . Putin said that there were five people who can run for president and can be elected, including Zubkov. On 13 September, Zubkov himself said he might run for President of Russia in 2008. However, in December 2007, Putin officially gave his support to Dmitry Medvedev for
782-498: The new constitution ratified on 25 December 1993, the "Government" ( Russian : Правительство , romanized : Pravitelstvo ) is the official name of the Russian cabinet. Since then, the head of that office takes the formal title "Chairmen of the Government" or colloquially "Prime Minister." Current Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin took the office on 16 January 2020. The youngest head of government by his accession to office
816-543: The number of files to the Council greatly decreased. The imperial Council of Ministers was re-established in late 1905, as a part of the large-scale government reform caused by the First Russian Revolution . All ministries and departments became parts of a single national administration. The Committee of Ministers functioned simultaneously with the second session of the Council of Ministers for six more months; Count Sergei Witte participated on both entities until
850-573: Was Sergey Kiriyenko (1998), at age 35, and the oldest Ivan Goremykin (1914), at age 74. Since the 18th century, a modern system of public administration was going to be created in Russia, including the formation of bodies such as the Supreme Privy Council and the Committee of Ministers whose powers are similar to the powers of the modern Russian Government . In the period from 1726 to 1905 there
884-662: Was a deputy Chairman of the External Relations Committee of the Saint Petersburg Mayor Office led by Vladimir Putin . From 3 November 1993, to 30 November 1998, Zubkov was the Chief of the Saint Petersburg Department of the State Tax Inspection and simultaneously a Deputy Chairman of the State Tax Inspection for Saint Petersburg. In December 1998, during the term of Yevgeny Primakov's Cabinet
918-426: Was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies. The position of Minister of the Russian Federation was established to coordinate ethnic policy, and on December 6 Vladimir Zorin assumed this position. On January 3, 2002, Nikolay Aksyonenko was sacked as Minister of Railways and on January 4 was replaced with Gennady Fadeyev . On February 18, Ilya Klebanov lost his position of
952-482: Was appointed Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District , replacing Valentina Matviyenko, who had been elected Governor of Saint Petersburg. On November 6, his First Deputy Andrey Fursenko was appointed acting Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies. On December 29, Boris Gryzlov , who had been elected to the State Duma , was dismissed as Interior Minister and replaced with Rashid Nurgaliyev as acting Minister. Mikhail Kasyanov
986-534: Was given to the chancellor and chairman of the State Council Count N.P. Rumyantsev. The modern government type in Russia came after the establishment of the Council of Ministers on 1 November 1905, created for the "management and union action principal chiefs of departments on subjects like law and senior public administration", and modelled on the relevant institutions within the constitutional states, when all
1020-474: Was no official title for the leader of the government. The chief ministers (principal ministres) of certain Emperor of All Russia nonetheless led the government de facto , but de jure the head of government was a monarch. The Committee of Ministers was established on 20 September 1802 in the course of Alexander I's ministerial reform . All the ministers were independent from each other and were responsible for
1054-633: Was proclaimed. At this period, a provisional government was formed and the Prime Minister was the head of state. The heads of government of the Russian State during the Civil War were de facto Prime Ministers in exile. Since the creation of the Russian Soviet Republic its cabinet was styled as the Council of People's Commissars . Between the creation of the USSR on 30 December 1922 and
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1088-505: Was ranked as Russia's 84th most influential politician. Zubkov's daughter is married to Anatoly Serdyukov , the former Russian Defense Minister . On 12 September 2007, President Vladimir Putin proposed his candidacy for the post of prime minister and on 14 September, the State Duma approved him in the post (he was voted 381 MP). Zubkov resigned 8 May 2008, after Dmitry Medvedev became president. Some Kremlinologists viewed Zubkov as one more technical prime minister, interpreting
1122-428: Was replaced with Vitaly Artyukhov as Minister of Natural Resources. Igor Yusufov was appointed Minister of Energy. On October 16, 2001 Ministry for Federal, Ethnic and Migration Policy was abolished and the position of Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies was promoted to the rank of a Deputy Prime Minister. Accordingly, on October 17 Alexander Blokhin and Alexander Dondukov were dismissed, Ilya Klebanov
1156-634: Was succeeded by Alexander Kerensky in July. In November 1917 the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolshevik faction of Russian social democrats led by Vladimir Lenin . The Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Republic became the new governmental body, which was chaired from 1917 to 1924 by Lenin. That body was renamed Council of Ministers following a decree of
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