MOSCOW. Nov 15 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree confirming members of the Russian Security Council, the Kremlin press service told Interfax on Tuesday.
The new members are the newly appointed presidential chief of staff Sergei Sobyanin, the new presidential envoy to the Far East, Kamil Iskhakov, and the new presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District, Alexander Konovalov.
The new membership of the Security Council is as follows:
Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation, chairman of the Security Council
Permanent members
Boris Gryzlov, Russian State Duma speaker
Igor Ivanov, Security Council secretary
Sergei Ivanov, deputy prime minister and defense minister
Sergei Lavrov, foreign minister
Sergei Lebedev, Foreign Intelligence Service director
Dmitry Medvedev, first deputy prime minister
Sergei Mironov, Federation Council speaker
Rashid Nurgaliyev, interior minister
Nikolai Patrushev, Federal Security Service director
Sergei Sobyanin, presidential chief of staff
Mikhail Fradkov, prime minister
Members
Yury Baluyevsky, chief of General Staff
Kamil Iskhakov, presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District
Anatoly Kvashnin, presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District
Ilya Klebanov, presidential envoy to the Northwest Federal District
Dmitry Kozak, presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District
Alexander Konovalov, presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District
Alexei Kudrin, finance minister
Pyotr Latyshev, presidential envoy to the Urals Federal District
Yury Osipov, Russian Academy of Sciences president
Georgy Poltavchenko, presidential envoy to the Central Federal District
Vladimir Ustinov, prosecutor general
Yury Chaika, justice minister
Sergei Shoigu, emergency situations minister