Alexander Shokhin
The head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs (RSPP) Alexander Shokhin has told about his meeting with President Vladimir Putin in which he asked the President a question about the possibility of forming a new Cabinet of Ministers. Shokhin’s words leads RIA Novosti on Thursday, March 16.
According to the Chairman of the Union, he met with the Russian leader on 19 December, when we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the organization. “I asked him a question in the informal part, referring to the American experience, the President [of the USA Donald] trump moves to the administration for Ministerial posts entrepreneurs, doesn’t want Vladimir Vladimirovich to use this experience in the next cycle of forming the government,” Shokhin said during a speech at the Congress of the Union.
Putin, according to him, the idea of appointing businessmen Ministers have not denied, but stressed that to judge the possible reshuffle in the Cabinet before. “No one knows who will be President of the new Russia,” cited his words Shokhin.
The head of RSPP, however, expressed the hope that the time will be updated when government officials “will learn to understand the business so much that we don’t want to change them”.
On January 19 the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” with reference to one of the analysts reported that Putin decided to change the composition of the government in the spring. According to the interlocutor of the edition, it is connected with the preparation of the programme of the new economic policy. The press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov called predictions about the possible change of the Cabinet “traditional fun”.