According to reports, Sergey Kirienko is Vladimir Putin’s top choice to replace Vyacheslav Volodin, who for the past four odd years has served as the Kremlin’s first deputy chief of staff, overseeing domestic political affairs and “managing” the country’s elections.
The Moscow Times: The next man Putin wants to manage domestic politics could be Russia’s unluckiest former prime minister
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a press conference at the end of the G20 Leaders Summit in Hangzhou on September 5, 2016. (Alexei Druzhinin/ Sputnik/ AFP)
