Mr Putin signed decrees appointing:
Alexander Abramov Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office;
Viktor Ivanov Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office;
Dmitry Kozak Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office;
Yevgeny Lisov Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office and Head of the Presidential Control Directorate;
Jakhan Pollyeva Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office;
Sergei Prikhodko Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office and Head of the Presidential Foreign Policy Directorate;
Igor Sechin Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office;
Vladislav Surkov Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office;
Alexei Gromov Press Attache for the President;
Vladimir Rakhmanin Chief of the Presidential Protocol;
Andrei Illarionov adviser to the President;
Sergei Yastrzhembsky aide to the President;
Larisa Brycheva Head of the Presidential State Legal Directorate;
Andrei Popov Head of the Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate;
Sergei Samoilov Head of the Central Territorial Directorate;
Mikhail Mityukov Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative at the Constitutional Court;
Vyacheslav Khizhnyakov Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative at the Federation Council.