One of the main mysteries of the outgoing year was the State Council - the very body of which to the constitutional reform was told as a structure that could allow Vladimir Putin to keep power in their hands after leaving the president's post. And on December 23, the first meeting of the new State Council was held. Personal composition announced by the presidential decree in a couple of days before the meeting, can not be said to surprise. It includes 104 people, including the Chairman of the Government, the Chairmen of both chambers of the Federal Assembly, the head of the Presidential Administration and His First Delivery, Poliuts in the federal districts, the Chairmen of the RSPP and the Federation of Trade Unions, four leaders of the Duma factions, as well as all the governors and two municipal heads. The new organ, so, nine tenths consists of president's appointees. It is rather political Noah the ark or, for those who remember parthorts than the management body.
Secretary of the updated State Council remained Igor Levitin - a man with military railway past, St. Petersburg, associated with oligarchs Alexei Mordashov and Arkady Rothenberg, as well as with Ilya Traber. The role of the first head of the administration of the President of Sergey Kiriyenko, and not only because it was he who, on behalf of the President, controls most of the members of the State Council, including governors, plenipotes and leaders of the Duma party. He, in essence, leads two key commissions of the State Council: Commission on the coordination of the work of public authorities, where the chairman is the head of the Presidential Administration Anton Waino, and Sergey Kiriyenko is his deputy; And the Commission for Coordination and Assess the effectiveness of the work of the state authorities, which he himself heads, and in his deputy Igor Levitin. In addition, the Office of the Presidential Administration to ensure the activities of the State Council is headed by Alexander Harichev, the right hand of Kiriyenko.
It would seem that the State Council will be played as a real role in the operational management of the country, which, unlike the Great State Council, has changed quite significantly. In addition to the same eight of the governors of replacement composition, representing all the federal districts, 18 governors included - chairmen of socio-economic development commissions. Together with Igor Levitin - 27 people: too much and too Pestro to produce solutions itself, but perhaps enough to discuss and refine the solutions already accepted. Note that, with each commission, the device will be created, apparently, the device of the State Council itself will grow. It is not excluded that it is the hardware component that will be the most influential.
The topics of 18 socio-economic commissions of the State Council demonstrate the combination of project and industry principles. Only half of the commissions of the State Council are fully or partially coincided with declared in 2018 and executable since then by national projects. But only two national projects - demography and labor relations and labor productivity - are not executed in the relevant commissions.
But there are several commissions, under which there are no national projects. It is an "economy and finance", "Energy", "Investments", "Industry", "Agriculture", as well as "social policy" and "youth policy". In addition, there is an important Commission "State and Municipal Management", which was headed by Sergei Sobyanin, Moscow Mayor.
Interesting and selection of governors in the Presidium, and the consolidation of the governors for commissions. The first thing that rushes into the eyes is almost the complete lack of root regional elites, the exceptions here are the Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov ("Construction, Housing and Commellents, City Wednesday") and Samara Dmitry Azarov ("Culture"). Second: dominance of the governors of the new, Kiriyenkovsky call; Only two out of 18 as part of the Presidium, Sergey Sobyanin and Andrei Vorobiev, were re-elected in their regions, the rest are on the first time. Third: a large proportion of governors with a Chekist Bekstround. Three of them entered the Presidium as heads of commissions, one - Irkutsk Igor Kobzyev - as part of the eight of the eight. I didn't get into the current composition of the Presidium only Astrakhan Igor Babushkin, and then because in 2019, when he was first appointed, and then elected, the consolidation of the governors behind the commissions was already mainly occurring.
As for the logic of this consolidation, then, firstly, it is not always visible, and where it is viewed, it is not so much in taking into account the education and prior experience, as in the specifics of the problems of the region. Engineer Viktor Tomenko from Nickel, who recently became the governor of the Altai Territory, headed the Commission on Agriculture, Engineer Andrei Travnikov from Severstal, headed by the Novosibirsk Region, "Broken" on science, and a military sailor, a builder and a businessman-coil Sergey Tsivility, Appointed in Kemerovo, is responsible for the energy. Considering all the governors from the number of former Putin's feasures; They are responsible for industry (Tula Alexey Dumin), Youth Policy (Yaroslavl Dmitry Mironov), Education (Kirovsky Igor Vasilyev).
The first meeting of the new State Council, together with the Council on Strategic Development and National Projects, has shown that the State Council is not at all what he once attributed to Solva. In terms of its functionality, it is rather "the Government of Dublerov", the school for governors, whom the Kremlin considers promising managers.
The author's opinion may not coincide with the position of the VTIMES edition.