In order to improve the activities of the Executive Office of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin ordered that the Presidential Directorate for Social and Economic Cooperation with the Commonwealth of Independent States Member Countries, the Republic of Abkhazia, and the Republic of South Ossetia be reorganised as the Presidential Directorate for Cross-Border Cooperation.
Vladimir Putin signed an additional order appointing Oleg Govorun head of the Presidential Directorate for Cross-Border Cooperation, relieving him of his current post.