Bloomberg named Kiriyenko, the future head of election campaign of Putin – RBC

the First Deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia Sergey Kirienko

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Bloomberg announced that to lead the election campaign of Vladimir Putin in the election of 2018 will be Sergei Kiriyenko. Putin himself about his intention to participate in elections has not yet been declared

the fact that Putin “calls the shots”, to ensure victory in the presidential elections in 2018 by a large margin, Bloomberg reported, citing five sources familiar with the matter. One of the sources indicates that to lead the election campaign of Putin after he announced its intention to participate in elections, will be ex-the head of Rosatom and the current Deputy head of the presidential administration Sergei Kiriyenko. According to the source Agency, about his participation in the elections, Putin is likely to be announced in 2017.

According to sources Bloomberg, “mandate” Kiriyenko applies not only to the election period. The Deputy head of the presidential administration, who oversees domestic policy, will have to abandon the conservative principles in Russian politics that dominated political system in recent years, making this without threats to stability.

the Interlocutors Bloomberg indicate that it is not yet clear who will join the election team headed by Kiriyenko, however, they know that Kiriyenko wanted to work with former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who now heads the Center for strategic research.

Kirienko has held the post of Deputy head of the presidential administration in early October, replacing Vyacheslav Volodin, who took the post of the speaker of the state Duma of the new convocation. Before Kiriyenko in different years was head of Rosatom, the presidential Plenipotentiary envoy in the Volga Federal district and the Prime Minister. In addition, in the 1999 elections to the Duma, Kirienko was the leader of the party list of “Union of right forces” in the same year participated in elections of the mayor of Moscow.

As he wrote RBC in early November, the presidential election was the subject of a closed meeting Kiriyenko with a group of scientists, which was attended by the head of the internal policy Andrey Yarin and his Deputy Timur Prokopenko and Sergey Novikov.

In early September, in an interview with Bloomberg, Putin said that not yet decided whether to participate in the presidential elections in 2018. He said that his decision will depend on whether the implemented “plans and goals we set for ourselves…the improvement of the living level of people, the economy, social sphere, increase of defensibility of the country”.

during the presidential campaign 2012 election headquarters of Vladimir Putin was headed by filmmaker and Duma Deputy Stanislav Govorukhin.