Trutnev will oversee the issue of patriotism and patriotic education in the presidential administration Former deputy prime minister and presidential envoy to the Federal District in the Far East (FEFD), and now Vladimir Putin's assistant, Yuri Trutnev, will oversee the issue of patriotism and patriotic education in the presidential administration, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told Yedah newspaper. "The assumption is that it will be," Peskov told the publication, answering a question as to whether the issue of patriotism would be within Trotnev's competence in his role as assistant to the president.