Pavel Kadushnikov was promoted to First Deputy Minister of Finance. This order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Meshustin.
Kaduchnikov will take the place of Irina Okladnikova, who was appointed by President Vladimir Putin on October 22 as the Deputy Prime Minister - the head of the government apparatus in place of Dmitry Grigorenko.
◼ In the past, under Kaduchnikov's supervision, there were three departments in the Ministry of Finance: inter-budgetary relations, budgetary policy in the social and scientific fields as well as budgetary policy in the field of labor and social protection.
As the First Deputy Minister of Finance, he will supervise the formulation and execution of the federal budget, its information support, and will continue to supervise the block of inter-budgetary relations.
In another decree, Kurban Kurbanov, who previously headed the department for budgetary policy in the field of labor and social protection, was appointed deputy minister of finance.
BT: As experts note, the promotion of Pavel Kaduchnikov means that Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov has restored the personal and ideological unity in the leadership of his department, which was violated by Okladnikova, who does not support monetarist principles.
At the same time, Siluanov also demonstrates significant weight in the current government structure, which is able to balance the demands of the military lobby represented by Defense Minister Andrey Belusov and First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Mentorov, who represent the interests of the "Putin family" and the Rostec group, respectively.
At the same time, they point out the failure of Irina Okladnikova, who failed to lobby for appointment as a replacement in the Ministry of Finance for the Ministry of Defense Expenditure Treasurer Alexei Lipaev, who is a "student of Leonid Gorin", currently the First Deputy Minister of Defense. Deputy Prime Ministers Denis Mentorov and Alexander Novak also worked to appoint Lipayev as the First Deputy Minister of Finance. But his candidacy was rejected.