Sobyanin, Iskhakov, Konovalov appointed to Security Council

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