MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin changed some top jobs in a reshuffle of the government and the Kremlin over recent days, though most of the top jobs remained the same
Following are the key jobs and the biggest changes:
Biggest changes:
* Defence Minister - Andrei Belousov (was Sergei Shoigu).
* Secretary of the Security Council - Sergei Shoigu (was Nikolai Patrushev)
* Deputy chief of staff and overseeing the economy - Maxim Oreshkin
* Kremlin aide overseeing defence industry - Alexei Dyumin(formerly he was governor of Tula and for many years served as a senior bodyguard for Putin)
* Kremlin aide for shipbuilding - Nikolai Patrushev
* First Deputy PM - Denis Manturov
* Deputy PM Alexander Novak given additional duties overseeing the economy. He is also Putin's energy point man.
* Deputy PM overseeing agriculture and ecology - Dmitry Patrushev. He was agriculture minister before.
* Agriculture Minister - Oksana Lut (was Dmitry Patrushev)
* Energy Minister - Sergei Tsivilev (was Nikolai Shulginov)
* Trade and Industry Minister - Anton Alikhanov (was Denis Manturov)
Top positions that were left unchanged
* Prime Minister - Mikhail Mishustin (If the president is ever unable to fulfil his duties, then the prime minister takes over his duties
KREMLIN
* Kremlin chief of staff - Anton Vaino
* Kremlin first deputy chief of staff - Alexei Gromov
* Kremlin first deputy chief of staff - Sergei Kiriyenko
* Kremlin deputy chief of staff - Dmitry Kozak
* Kremlin deputy chief of staff - Dmitry Peskov (also Putin's spokesman)
* Kremlin foreign policy aide - Yuri Ushakov
MILITARY AND SECURITY
* Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov - to remain in his job.
* FSB Director - Alexander Bortnikov
* SVR Director - Sergei Naryshkin
* Chief of Russia's national guard - Viktor Zolotov
* Federal Guards Service (FCO) - Dmitry Kochnev
* Foreign Minister - Sergei Lavrov
* Interior Minister - Vladimir Kolokoltsev
GOVERNMENT
* Finance Minister - Anton Siluanov
* Economy Minister - Maxim Reshetnikov
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge in Moscow and Darya Korsunskaya in London; Editing by Andrew Osborn and Alison Williams)
