Mikhail Mishustin approved changes to the list of curators of state programs at the level of deputy prime ministers. The decision was made in accordance with personnel changes in the government.
According to the updated list, First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Mantorov will supervise the state program "Justice".
It is worth noting that all other deputy prime ministers oversee issues related to their profile: Siluanov and Okladnikova - finance, Nikitin - transport, Chernyshenko - information technology, etc.
Mentorov actually begins to supervise certain aspects of the work of the Ministry of Justice, which in the past was usually coordinated by the deputy prime minister, the head of the government apparatus.
This distribution of state programs, which means the expansion of Manturov's actual powers, ensures the position of the first deputy prime minister as the most influential person in the current government.
Direct subordination to the president, supervision of the most resource-intensive industry, as well as the transfer of powers in issues other than the formal core make Mentorov a figure not much inferior in importance to the prime minister. De facto, their status becomes equal, although de jure the prime minister, according to the constitution, remains the second figure in the country after the president.