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| Putin removes Kremlin chief of staff from duties | Putin removes Kremlin chief of staff from duties |
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| President Vladimir Putin has removed from office the presidential chief of staff, Sergey Ivanov, the Kremlin press service reports. Ivanov occupied a number of top positions in the government, including the post of defense minister in the early 2000s. | President Vladimir Putin has removed from office the presidential chief of staff, Sergey Ivanov, the Kremlin press service reports. Ivanov occupied a number of top positions in the government, including the post of defense minister in the early 2000s. |
| Ivanov has been appointed the president’s ecology and transport special representative. | Ivanov has been appointed the president’s ecology and transport special representative. |
| President Putin simultaneously appointed a new chief of staff, naming Anton Vaino to the post. Vaino had been Ivanov’s deputy since May 2012, several months after Ivanov had been appointed presidential chief of staff. | |
| The president said that Ivanov himself had requested a transfer to another role, and had proposed Vaino as a candidate for his position. | |
| “I do remember that we’ve agreed upon your request not to keep you in this post for more than four years,” Putin told Ivanov during a meeting on Friday, aired live on Russia 24. “I’m receptive to your wish to transfer to another area of activity,” the president said. |