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The number of cabinet ministries fluctuates with each administration. After the most recent government reorganization in September 2007, there are 16 cabinet-level government ministries. Eleven of the ministries report to Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov while the remaining five report directly to President Putin. Each ministry bears responsibility for a number of other organizations called “agencies” and “services,” certain agencies and services also report directly to the president or the prime minister.
Dmitry Kozak, Putin’s longtime friend and recently appointed regional development minister oversaw the reorganization of the government into this general structure in 2004, constructing a hierarchy in which ministries would have the most power and agencies the least. Ministries develop legislation, services monitor the stipulations of legislation, and agencies provide state services, manage state property, and compile lists, registers and surveys. Prime Minister Zubkov has expressed his dislike for this governmental structure and so it may be streamlined in the near future.
Ministries Subordinate to the President:
Emergency Situations (Emercom)
Defense
(including the Federal Services for Military and Technical Cooperation; Defense Contracts and Technical and Export Control and the Federal Agency of Special Construction)
Foreign Affairs
Interior
Justice
(including the Federal Prison Service, the Federal Registration Service and the Federal Court Marshals Service)
Services, Agencies and Departments Subordinate to the President
Foreign Intelligence Service
Federal Security Service
Federal Drug Control Service
State Courier Service
the Main Department for Special Presidential Programs
Presidential Property Department
Ministries Subordinate to Prime Minister:
Agriculture
(including the Federal Service for Veterinarian and Vegetation Sanitary Supervision and the Federal Fisheries Agency)
Culture and Press
Information Technologies and Communication
Economic Development and Trade
(Including the Federal Agency on State Reserves, the Federal Agency for Real Estate Cadastre www.kadastr.ru, the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management & the Federal Agency for special economic regions management)
Education and Science
(including the federal services for intellectual property, patents and trademarks; and inspection of education and science as well as the federal agency for science and innovation and the federal education agency www.ed.gov.ru)
Finance
Health and Social Development,
(Including the Federal Supervision Service for consumer rights protection and people welfare, Federal Supervision Service for health care and social development, Federal Service for labour and employment, the Federal Agency for health and social development, & the Federal medical- and biological Agency)
Industry and Energy
(Including the Federal Agency for industry www.rosprom.gov.ru, Federal Agency for technical regulations and metrology, & the Federal Agency for energy)
Natural Resources
(Including the Federal Agency for water resources, Federal Agency for forestry, Federal Supervision Service for nature management, Federal Agency for subsoil management, & Rosprorinadzor)
Transportation
(Including the Federal Supervision Service for Transport, Federal Agency for Air Transport, Federal Road Agency, Federal Agency for Railway Transport, - Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport, & the Federal Geodesy and Cartography Service Agency of Russia www.roskart.gov.ru)
Regional Development (including the Federal Agency for construction, housing and utilities www.gosstroy.gov.ru)
Services and Agencies Subordinate to the Prime Minister
Federal Anti-Monopoly Service
Federal Service for Financial Markets
State Statistics Service
Federal Space Agency
Federal Atomic Energy Agency
Federal Tariffs Service
Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Atomic Inspection
Federal Meteorological and Environmental Monitoring Service
Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports
Federal Tourism Agency
Federal Air Navigation Service
Federal Customs Service
Federal Inspection Service for Mass Media, Telecommunications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage
Federal Agency for the Procurement of Military and Special Equipment
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