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THE PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION |

[ INSTITUTIONS / The Presidential Administration ] |

| The administration was created on July 19, 1991, through a presidential decree “On the Administration of the President of the RSFSR.”

Since then, the structure and staff of the administration have changed many times.

In March 1997 Vladimir V. Putin was appointed as one of the deputies to the head of the administration. At the same time he retained his position as head of the administration’s Central Supervision and Inspections Directorate.

In May 1998 Mr. Putin became first deputy to the head of the administration and was responsible for working with the constituent territories of the Russian Federation until his appointment as director of the Federal Security Service.

Alexander S. Voloshin had held position of the Administration Head since March 1999. Dmitri Medvedev was promoted Head of the Presidential Administration in October 2003.

The Presidential Administration is responsible for providing the President with administrative support and enabling him to carry out his duties as head of state.

This includes drawing up bills for the President to submit to the State Duma for consideration. The administration also prepares drafts of decrees, orders, instructions, presidential speeches and other documents, including the President’s Annual Address to the Federal Assembly.

The administration monitors and checks the enforcement of federal laws and presidential decrees, orders and instructions, and reports the results to the President.

The administration also co-ordinates the President’s work with political parties, non-governmental and non-profit organizations, unions, foreign governments and their representatives, Russian and foreign politicians and public figures and international organizations.

The administration analyzes all information on socioeconomic, political and legal trends both domestically and internationally; it also examines individual petitions and proposals from non-governmental or non-profit organizations and local authorities, and reports to the President accordingly.

The President oversees the general functioning of the administration, but its day-to-day activities are managed by the Head of the Presidential Administration, or Chief of Staff.

The current Administration was formed in March 2004.

The head of the administration has two deputies.

The senior officials of the Presidential Administration include the President’s Press Secretary, the head of the presidential Protocol Service, the President’s aides and advisers, Presidential Representatives to state bodies, Russia’s Representative to the European Court of Human Rights and the heads of autonomous departments within the administration. The Presidential Representatives to the seven federal districts are also members of the administration and answer to the head of the administration. The administration also assists the work of the Presidential Representatives.

The administration includes 12 directorates, the Presidential Bureau Department and the Document Registry (Chancellery).

The Administrative Office of the Security Council is also part of the Presidential Administration.

The administration is responsible for providing administrative support to the State Council and other councils and commissions affiliated with the President.

As of the middle of 2002, approximately 2,000 staff were working in the Presidential Administration.

The largest of the administration’s subdivisions include the Supervision and Inspections Directorate, the Legal Directorate and the Document Processing Directorate, each of which comprises some 150-200 officials. Approximately the same number of staff work in the Administrative Office of the Security Council, while the presidential Research Department is the smallest in terms of numbers, with about 10 staff members.

The Presidential Administration is a state body and a legal entity, but not an economic entity.

Matters involving finances, real estate, equipment and supplies are handled for the President and the administration by the Presidential Property Management Directorate, a separate federal body within the executive branch of power. The Presidential Property Management Directorate is not part of the Presidential Administration.

The administration is located in Moscow and has offices in a number of buildings inside the Kremlin and in the vicinity of Staraya Ploschad (Old Square) and Ilyinka Street.

Any individual may write or call the administration or come there in person during visiting hours.

The administration has a special department, the Directorate for Processing Public Petittions, that handles individual petitions addressed to the President and his administration.

The directorate is a clearing house for all letters, petitions, queries, complaints and requests addressed to The President c/o The Kremlin, Moscow, or e-mailed through the President’s official web site. All correspondence is registered, processed and reviewed. From there, queries requiring a reply or specific measures are forwarded to the respective departments of the administration or other relevant governmental bodies with the necessary orders to ensure that they are dealt with appropriately.

In 2001 the Directorate for Processing Public Petittions processed approximately 1 million petitions to the President of Russia. Obviously, the addressee himself is unable to look personally through the tens of thousands of letters that come in every week. But all information that is of any significance whatsoever reaches the President in the form of regularly compiled analytical reports. Individual letters that require the personal intervention of the President go directly onto his desk.

| The Presidential Administration address: 103132, Moscow, Staraya square, 4
| Telephone: +(095) 925-35-81
| Fax: +(095) 206-07-66, 206-35-66

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