SERGEY IVANOV. Sep 24, 2007-Moscow, Russia-Vladimir Putin named a new economics and health minister and retained the current foreign and defense ministers today on 24 September 2007 as part of a long-expected government shuffle ahead of crucial parliamentary and presidential elections. The shuffle comes just over a week after Viktor Zubkov; an obscure Cabinet official overseeing money laundering investigation; became prime minister in a move that surprised most Kremlin experts and stoked speculation about Putin's in. 24/09/2007
Sep 24, 2007-Moscow, Russia-Vladimir Putin named a new economics and health minister and retained the current foreign and defense ministers today on 24 September 2007 as part of a long-expected government shuffle ahead of crucial parliamentary and presidential elections. The shuffle comes just over a week after Viktor Zubkov; an obscure Cabinet official overseeing money laundering investigation; became prime minister in a move that surprised most Kremlin experts and stoked speculation about Putin's in