The President signed executive orders on new appointments:
Nikolai Konstantinov has been appointed Chief of the Presidential Secretariat;
Sergei Osipov has been appointed Chief of the Presidential Information and Documentation Directorate;
Mikhail Mikhailovsky has been appointed Chief of the Presidential Directorate for Correspondence from Citizens and Organisations;
Vladislav Kitayev has been appointed Chief of the Presidential Protocol Office;
Vladimir Chernov has been appointed Chief of the Presidential Directorate for Interregional Relations and Cultural Contacts with Foreign Countries;
Yury Voronin has been appointed Chief of the Presidential Directorate for Socioeconomic Cooperation with Commonwealth of Independent States Member Countries, the Republic of Abkhazia, and the Republic of South Ossetia.
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Vladimir Putin released Sergei Sobolev from his duties as Chief of the Presidential Protocol Office.