Kirienko to replace Volodin as Deputy Head of the Kremlin administration

Sergei Kirienko, former head of Rosatom, has been appointed first deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, after his predecessor Vyacheslav Volodin was confirmed speaker of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, on Wednesday.

In late September, newspaper RBK and television channel Dozhd reported, citing sources in the Kremlin and the government, that Kiriyenko would be the most likely candidate for the post of first deputy head of the presidential administration in the event that Volodin is made speaker of the Duma.

Kirienko served as Russian Prime Minister from April 1998 to August 1998.