Administration of the President of the Russian Federation

Building of the Russian President Administration, former building of the Central Committee of the CPSU

The Presidential Administration of Russia is the state body that ensures the activities of the President of Russia.

Officials and independent divisions of the presidential administration

The Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation consists of independent units and a number of officials separately indicated in the position (for example, the head of the Administration, his deputies, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, assistants, advisers, plenipotentiary representatives of the President of the Russian Federation, head of the Protocol of the President of the Russian Federation, authorized under the President of the Russian Federation for the rights of the child).

Independent divisions of the Administration include various Departments of the President of the Russian Federation (since 2004 - the main structural unit), as well as a number of equal divisions, such as:

• Office of the President of the Russian Federation,
• Reference of the President of the Russian Federation,
• apparatus of the Security Council of the Russian Federation,
• Heraldic Council under the President of the Russian Federation,
• Secretariat of the Head of the Presidential Administration,
• Office of Advisers to the President of the Russian Federation and others.

Structure

Councils under the President of the Russian Federation

• Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights
• Council on Science and Education under the President of the Russian Federation
• Council for Culture and Art under the President of the Russian Federation

2024: Russian President Vladimir Putin approves new structure of presidential administrations

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a new structure of departments in the presidential administration of Russia. The corresponding decree was published on June 12, 2024 on the website of the official publication of acts. According to the document, five new departments appear in the administration:

• on monitoring and analysis of social processes;
• on national maritime policy issues;
• on the formation and activities of the State Council;
• on state policy in the humanitarian sphere;
• on state policy in the field of the military-industrial complex (defense industry complex).

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In addition to the emergence of new directorates, one of the current ones was also abolished. The Department for Ensuring the Activities of the State Council (UGS) was disbanded, in fact, divided into two: the Department for Monitoring and Analyzing Social Processes and the Department for the Formation and Activities of the State Council.

The full list of divisions of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation by mid-June 2024 is as follows:

• State and Legal Administration of the President of the Russian Federation
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation
• Control Department of the President of the Russian Federation
• Reference of the President of the Russian Federation
• Office of Information and Documentation Support of the President of the Russian Federation
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Foreign Policy
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Internal Policy
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Civil Service, Personnel and Anti-Corruption
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Monitoring and Analysis of Social Processes
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for National Maritime Policy
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation on the formation and activities of the State Council of the Russian Federation
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for State Policy in the Humanitarian Sphere
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for State Policy in the Field of the Military-Industrial Complex
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for state awards
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Scientific and Educational Policy
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for ensuring the constitutional rights of citizens
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Public Projects
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Public Relations and Communications
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Border Cooperation
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for work with appeals of citizens and organizations
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies and Communication Infrastructure
• Office of the Press Service and Information of the President of the Russian Federation
• Office of the Protocol of the President of the Russian Federation
• Expert Department of the President of the Russian Federation

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation

2011

• State-Legal Department of the President
• Control Department of the President
• President's Reference
• Office of the President for Foreign Policy
• Office of the President for Internal Policy
• Office of the President for Civil Service and Personnel
• Office of the President for State Awards
• Office of the President for ensuring the constitutional rights of citizens
• Office of Information and Documentation Support of the President
• Office of the President for Handling Appeals of Citizens and Organizations
• Office of the Press Service and Information of the President
• Office of the President's Protocol
• Expert Department of the President
• Office of the President for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
• Office of the President for ensuring the activities of the State Council of the Russian Federation
• Office of the President for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies and Communication Infrastructure

Income

2020

History

The presidential administration of Russia was created on July 19, 1991 by decree of the President of the RSFSR B.N. Yeltsin.

Initially, the administration consisted of 13 units. Later, by mid-1993, with the release of the Regulation on Administration, it included 26 departments and departments. This provision emphasized that the administration is "an apparatus created to ensure the activities of the President of the Russian Federation."

In December 1993, the Constitution of the Russian Federation was adopted and the presidential administration received a constitutional rank (paragraph "and" of Article 83).

On October 2, 1996, a decree was issued "On Approval of the Regulation on the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation," which introduced the Regulation on the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. However, in terms of appointing the administration, this did not change anything.

As for the real functions of the administration, much depended on its leader. For example, in 1996, this post under President B. N. Yeltsin was taken by the famous politician A. B. Chubais. He decided to elevate the role of the administration, strengthen its influence on socio-political processes, and make the federal executive branch strongly dependent on it. The 1996 decree reflected the claims of the head of administration. The Regulation stated that the administration is a state body that ensures the activities of the President of the Russian Federation, "expanded many of its control over other bodies, especially executive bodies.

Deputies of the State Duma challenged the presidential decree in the Constitutional Court of Russia. The Regulation on the Administration was amended to soften its capabilities, and the deputies withdrew their appeal from the Constitutional Court, but the Regulation preserved the characteristic of the administration as a state body.

Over time, there was a restructuring of the presidential administration. Emphasizing the special role of the administration in his message on March 30, 1999, the President of Russia noted: "Serious tasks are facing the presidential administration, which should work in a more organized, coordinated manner with state authorities, and most importantly, strengthen control over the implementation of the decisions of the president. Unfortunately, recently, due to the inaction of individual leaders and officials, it has lost many of its positions. The administration should not just represent the president, but be an active conductor of his policies. "

A new provision on the administration was necessary in 2004 "in order to form the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, determine the legal status and legal foundations of the activities of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation and its officials," the current Regulation was approved. Now the administration consists of 18 independent units.

2023: Employees of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation ordered to get rid of the iPhone

Employees of the internal political block of the presidential administration Russia (AP) are obliged to abandon smartphones iPhone for security reasons by April 1, 2023, such a period was established by the deputy head of the apparatus. Sergey Kiriyenko This became known on March 20, 2023.

iPhone is everything. Or throw it away, or give it to the children. Everyone will have to do this in March, "said Kommersant from the interlocutors, who attended a special seminar, where it was announced the need to abandon Apple phones.

As an alternative, officials were offered smartphones on Android, Chinese counterparts or the Russian Aurora

Another interlocutor of the newspaper, aware of the implementation of this order, admitted that the Kremlin would conduct the purchase of new "safe" smartphones for AP employees. Another source close to the AP said that the ban on the use of Apple gadgets could also affect officials involved in domestic policy in regional administrations.

One of the interlocutors clarified that instead of an iPhone, AP employees were offered to buy smartphones with the Android operating system, its Chinese counterparts or the Russian Aurora.

According to the editorial office, the internal political block of the Presidential Administration, which was instructed to change phones, includes four departments - on internal policy, on public projects, on ensuring the activities of the State Council and on the development of information and communication technologies and communication infrastructure. At the same time, officials from the first three directorates will be involved in the presidential election campaign, which is scheduled for 2024.

Political analyst Vladimir Shemyakin noted that smartphones with increased security are limited in functionality, and not only the iPhone carries risks. In his opinion, it is necessary to find a balance between important security requirements and the performance of mobile devices: officials need prompt access to the network, instant messengers and other communication programs. As an example of an imbalance, he cited the situation with super-complex passwords, which cannot be hacked and remembered and have to be written to a cheat sheet in close proximity to a computer.^[1]

2021: The Ministry of Finance increased the cost of maintaining the Kremlin and the Cabinet by hundreds of millions

In September 2021, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation increased the costs of maintaining the Kremlin and the Russian Government by hundreds of millions of rubles. The increase in spending in the department was associated with an increase in the costs of the upcoming inauguration, air travel of officials and indexation of their salaries. Read more here.

2018: President's Economic Council abolished

In accordance with the decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin of July 19, 2018, the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation was abolished (text of the decree).

2012: Leaders in President Vladimir Putin's administration

On May 22, 2012, the following appointments were announced and the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation:

• Ivanov Sergey Borisovich - Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation;
• Volodin Vyacheslav Viktorovich - First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation;
• Alexey Gromov - First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation;
• Vaino Anton Eduardovich - Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation;
• Dmitry Peskov - Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation - Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation;
• Larisa Brycheva - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation - Head of the State Legal Department of the President of the Russian Federation;
• Tatyana Alekseevna Golikova - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation;
• Nabiullina Elvira Sakhipzadovna - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation;
• Yuri Petrovich Trutnev - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation;
• Yuri Ushakov - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation;
• Fursenko Andrei Alexandrovich - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation;
• Konstantin Chuichenko - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation - Head of the Control Department of the President of the Russian Federation;
• Igor Olegovich Shchegolev - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation;
• Levitin Igor Evgenievich - Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation;
• Vladimir Ostrovenko - Head of the Protocol of the President of the Russian Federation;
• Kalimulin Dmitry Rafaelievich - Head of the Reference of the President of the Russian Federation;

2011: Administration leaders in President Dmitry Medvedev's team

Head of Administration: Sergey Evgenievich Naryshkin

First Deputy Head of Administration: Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov

Deputy Heads of Administration:

• Beglov Alexander Dmitrievich
• Gromov Alexey Alekseevich

Presidential Aides:

• Alexander Abramov
• Larisa Igorevna Brycheva
• Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich
• Oleg Markov
• Pollyeva Dzhahan Reggepovna
• Sergey Eduardovich Prikhodko
• Konstantin Anatolyevich Chuichenko

Presidential Press Secretary: Natalia Aleksandrovna Timakova

Head of the President's Protocol: Marina Valentinovna Entaltseva

Advisers to the President:

• Bedritsky Alexander Ivanovich
• Grigorov Sergey Ivanovich
• Zyazikov Murat Magometovich
• Laptev Yuri Konstantinovich
• Mikhail Ivanovich Trinoga
• Ushakov Sergey Konstantinovich
• Fedotov Mikhail Alexandrovich
• Yuryev Evgeny Leonidovich
• Yakovlev Veniamin Fedorovich

Plenipotentiary representatives of the President in government bodies:

• Kotenkov Alexander Alekseevich
• Minh Harry Vladimirovich
• Mikhail Valentinovich Krotov

Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights: Astakhov Pavel Alekseevich

Plenipotentiary representatives of the President in federal districts:

• Nikolai Vinnichenko
• Oleg Markovic Govorun
• Viktor Ivanovich Ishaev
• Evgeny Vladimirovich Kuyvashev
• Rapota Grigory Alekseevich
• Tolokonsky Victor Alexandrovich
• Ustinov Vladimir Vasilievich
• Alexander Khloponin

Presidential Administration Regulations

The provision on the presidential administration of the Russian Federation was approved:

• Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 22, 1993 No. 273,
• Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 29, 1996 No. 117,
• Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 2, 1996 No. 1412,
• Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of April 6, 2004 No. 490.

Structures responsible for IT in the presidential administration

In June 2018, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on optimizing the structure of the presidential administration, which affects, among other things, the structures responsible for the development of ICT and digital technologies. Now, it follows from the decree, two structures oversee activities related to digital technologies in the presidential administration. Read more here.

Interesting facts

• On January 26, 1993, Major Ivan Kislov was detained on the roof of the administration building, who wanted to commit an attempt on the life of Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

Notes

Links

• Official information about the presidential administration of Russia on the website state.kremlin.ru
• Divisions
• Management and Key Officers
• The court extended immunity to Medvedev's subordinates