Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office (Russia)

Chairman of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Руководитель Администрации Президента Российской Федерации
Coat of arms of the Russian Federation
Incumbent Anton Vaino since August 12, 2016
Residence	Kremlin, Moscow
Appointer	The President
Inaugural holder	Yuri Petrov
Formation	5 August 1991
Website	http://state.kremlin.ru/administration/about_adm (Russian)

The Kremlin Chief of Staff or Chief of Staff Presidential Administration of Russia (Russian: Руководитель Администрации Президента Российской Федерации, Romanized: Rukovoditel' Administratsii Prezidenta Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the highest ranking employee of The Kremlin and head of the Presidential Administration of Russia. The position was created by Presidential decree of Boris Yeltsin in 1991. The Chief of Staff is responsible for general management of Presidential activity.

The Kremlin occupant is Anton Vaino, who assumed the position in August 2016.

Responsibilities

In accordance with the Regulations on Administration approved by Presidential Decree on April 6, 2004 (№ 490):^[1]

• Represents management in the federal bodies of state power, bodies of state power of subjects and local authorities, as well as in Russian, international and foreign organizations;
• Provides overall management of the heads of departments of administration and heads of other independent units of administration;
• Allocate responsibilities to Deputy Chief of Staff;
• Coordinates the activities of Presidential helpers and advisors and distributes questions relating to their jurisdiction;
• Coordinates the activities of Presidential plenipotentiaries in federal districts;
• On behalf of the President, makes proposals for the preparation of draft federal laws, decrees and orders, as well as the adoption of decisions and orders of the Government ;
• Acts as the President for approval of draft Regulations on Administration and other independent division of administration;
• Presents candidates for appointments and submits proposals to the President on the dismissal of officials
• Comments on structure and strength of the Russian President, and other independent units of administration, operational management assigned to them and (or) that they lead;
• Comments on proposals of the Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council and the structure and staffing of the unit of the Security Council ;
• Comments on presentation of presidential representatives in federal districts of the structure and personnel of their vehicles;
• Approve the list of information to be classified;
• Appoint and dismiss the head of the administration of its secretariat and his deputies, deputy chief and other employees of the independent divisions and the Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Federal District;
• Define the powers of the Vice Chief of Staff on the appointment and dismissal of other officials, their promotion and application to them of disciplinary measures;
• Issue orders on administration activities within its competence;
• Provide certification of personnel administration, confer qualification level administration employees, except those employees who are assigned to the qualification level by President ;
• Organize the execution of Presidential orders;
• Request and receive necessary information from federal bodies of state power, bodies of state power of subjects , local authorities, as well as from organizations;
• Organize training and exercise performance for the budget request for support of the President , content administration, maintenance and support of Presidential plenipotentiaries in federal districts and the content of their deputies, as well as the content of the Ombudsman at the European Court of Human Rights;
• Disposes of budgetary funds in accordance with budget administration;
• On behalf of the President makes a separate estimate of the administration changes that should not result in exceeding the expenditure of funds allocated from the federal budget for the relevant year;
• Designate one of the Vice Chiefs of Staff to dispose of budget funds in accordance with budget administration.

Office holders

#	Portrait	Chief	Term of office	President
1		Yuri Petrov	5 August 1991 — 19 January 1993	Boris Yeltsin
2		Sergey Filatov	19 January 1993 — 15 January 1996
3		Nikolai Yegorov	15 January — 15 July 1996
4		Anatoly Chubais	15 July 1996 — 7 March 1997
5		Valentin Yumashev	11 March 1997 — 7 December 1998
6		Nikolay Bordyuzha	7 December 1998 — 19 March 1999
7		Alexander Voloshin	19 March 1999 — 31 30 October 2003
				Vladimir Putin
8		Dmitry Medvedev	30 October 2003 — 14 November 2005
9		Sergey Sobyanin	14 November 2005 — 7 May 2008 (acting until 12 May 2008)
10		Sergey Naryshkin	12 May 2008 — 15 December 2011	Dmitry Medvedev
—		Vladislav Surkov (Acting)	20–22 December 2011
11		Sergei Ivanov	22 December 2011 — 12 August 2016
				Vladimir Putin
12		Anton Vaino	Since 12 August 2016

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