Kremlin Chief of Staff

Chairman of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Руководитель Администрации Президента Российской Федерации
Coat of arms of the Russian Federation
Incumbent Sergei Ivanov since December 22, 2011
Residence	Kremlin, Moscow
Appointer	The President
Inaugural holder	Yuri Petrov
Formation	5 August 1991
Website	http://state.kremlin.ru/administration/about_adm (Russian)

The Kremlin Chief of Staff or Chief of Staff Presidential Administration of Russia (Russian: Руководитель Администрации Президента Российской Федерации, Romanized: Rukovoditel' Administratsii Prezidenta Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the highest ranking employee of The Kremlin, and in fact is the head of the Presidential Administration of Russia. The position began by Presidential decree of Boris Yeltsin in 1991. The Chief of staff is responsible for general management of the Presidential activity.

The current Kremlin Chief of Staff is Sergei Ivanov, who assumed the position on December 2011, after Sergey Naryshkin resigned in order to accept appointment as Chairman of the State Duma.

Powers and Rights

In accordance with the Regulations on the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation approved by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on April 6, 2004 (№ 490):

• Represents management in the federal bodies of state power, bodies of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation, local authorities, as well as in Russian, international and foreign organizations;
• Provides overall management of the heads of departments of administration, heads of other independent units of administration;
• Allocate responsibilities between Deputy Chief of Staff;
• Coordinates the activities of helpers and advisors President of the Russian Federation and distributes questions relating to their jurisdiction;
• Coordinates the activities of plenipotentiaries of the President of the Russian Federation in federal districts;
• On behalf of the President of the Russian Federation to the realization of the functions entrusted to the administration, makes Government of the Russian Federation proposals for the preparation of draft federal laws, decrees and orders of the President of the Russian Federation, as well as the adoption of decisions and orders of the Government of the Russian Federation;
• Is the president of the Russian Federation for approval the draft Regulations on the Administration of President of the Russian Federation, other independent division of administration;
• Is the president of the Russian Federation candidates for appointment and submit to the President of the Russian Federation proposals on the dismissal of officials, in accordance with the Regulations on the Administration;
• Claims on representation Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant President of the Russian Federation, structure and strength of the Russian President, and other independent units of administration, operational management assigned to them and (or) that they lead;
• Claims on the proposal of the Secretary Russian Federation Security Council structure and staffing of the unit of the Security Council of the Russian Federation;
• Claims on presentation of presidential representatives of the Russian Federation in federal districts of the structure and personnel of their vehicles;
• Approve the list of information to be classified in the administration;
• Appoint and dismiss the head of the administration of its secretariat and his deputies, deputy chief and other employees of the independent divisions, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Federal District;
• Defines the powers of the Vice Chief of Staff on the appointment and dismissal of other officials, their promotion and application to them of disciplinary measures;
• Issue orders on administration activities within its competence;
• Provides certification of personnel administration, confer qualification level administration employees, except those employees who are assigned to the qualification level by President of the Russian Federation;
• Organizes the execution of orders of the President of the Russian Federation;
• Requests and receives the necessary information from the federal bodies of state power, bodies of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation, local authorities, as well as from organizations;
• Organizes training and exercise performance in the prescribed manner budget request for support of the President of the Russian Federation, content administration, maintenance and support of the plenipotentiaries of the President of the Russian Federation in federal districts and the content of their deputies, as well as the content of the Ombudsman of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights;
• Disposes of budgetary funds in accordance with the budget administration;
• Has the right on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation to make a separate estimate of the administration changes that should not result in exceeding the expenditure of funds allocated from the federal budget for the relevant year;
• Has the right to designate one of the Vice Chief of Staff to dispose of budget funds in accordance with the budget administration.

List of the Chiefs of Russian presidential administration

#	portrait	chief	years	President
1		Yury Petrov	August 1991 - January 1993	Boris Yeltsin
2		Sergey Filatov	January 1993 - January 1996
3		Nikolay Yegorov	15 January - 15 July 1996
4		Anatoly Chubais	(15 July 1996 - 7 March 1997
5		Valentin Yumashev	11 March 1997 - 7 December 1998
6		Nikolai Bordyuzha	7 December 1998 - 19 March 1999
7		Alexander Voloshin	19 March - 31 December 1999
u/o		Alexander Voloshin	31 December 1999 - 30 October 2003	Vladimir Putin
9		Dmitry Medvedev	30 October 2003 - 14 November 2005
10		Sergey Sobyanin	14 November 2005 — 7 May 2008 (acting until 12 May 2008)
11		Sergey Naryshkin	12 May 2008 - 15 December 2011	Dmitry Medvedev
12		Vladislav Surkov	December 2011 (acting)
13		Sergei Ivanov	22 December 2011[1] - 21 May 2012
13		Sergei Ivanov	Re-appointed in 21 May 2012	Vladimir Putin

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