Vladimir Putin's Second Cabinet (May 2008 – May 2012) was a cabinet of the
government
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of the
Russian Federation
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following the
2008 Russian presidential election
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Vladimir Putin
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Igor Sechin
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Sechin has been a confidant ...
,
Sergey Sobyanin
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Sobyanin previously served as the Governor of ...
Sergei Ivanov
Sergei Borisovich Ivanov ( rus, Сергей Борисович Иванов, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej bɐˈrʲisəvʲɪtɕ ɪvɐˈnof; born 31 January 1953) is a Russian senior official and politician who has served as the Special Representative of ...
and
Alexei Kudrin
Alexei Leonidovich Kudrin ( rus, Алексе́й Леони́дович Ку́дрин, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ ˈkudrʲɪn; born 12 October 1960) is a Russian liberal politician and economist. Previously he served as the C ...
Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (russian: Сергей Викторович Лавров, ; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian diplomat and politician who has served as the Foreign Minister of Russia since 2004.
Lavrov served as the Permanent Represe ...
kept the position of the
Foreign Minister of Russia
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Anatoliy Serdyukov
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kept her position as Minister for Economics and Trade.
Igor Levitin
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kept his position as the Transport Minister.Tatiana Golikova kept the position of the Minister of Health and Social Development. Her husband, Viktor Khristenko, received the position of Minister for Industry (before he was the Minister for Industry and Energy), while the former head of
Atomstroyexport
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Alexey Gordeyev
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kept his position as Minister for Agriculture.
Yuri Trutnev
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kept his position as Minister of Natural Resources.
Dmitry Kozak
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kept his position as Regional Development Minister and
Andrei Fursenko
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kept his position as Minister of Education and Science.
Minister for the Information and Mass Communications became
Igor Shchyogolev
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Early life and ed ...
France
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, became Minister for Culture.
There was created new Ministry for Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy headed by
Vitaly Mutko
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From 2008 to 2016, ...
Commonwealth of Independent States
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Affairs (Агентство по делам СНГ) but the head of it was not appointed yet (as of May 29, 2008). Moscow Mayor
Yury Luzhkov
Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov ( rus, Ю́рий Миха́йлович Лужко́в, p=ˈjʉrʲɪj mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ lʊˈʂkof; 21 September 1936 – 10 December 2019) was a Russian politician who served as mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010 ...
Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime min ...