Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed changing his defence minister and moving him to replace the powerful secretary of the Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, in a significant change to the Kremlin's pecking order.
Following are the list of changes:
* Prime Minister - Mikhail Mishustin
* Secrety of the Security Council - Sergei Shoigu (formerly Nikolai Patrushev)
* The Kremlin said Nikolai Patrushev will have a different job but did not say which.
* Defence Minister - Andrei Belousov (formerly Sergei Shoigu)
* Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov - to remain in his job, the Kremlin said.
* FSB Director - Alexander Bortnikov
* Foreign Minister - Sergei Lavrov
* Interior Minister - Vladimir Kolokoltsev
* First Deputy PM - Denis Manturov
* Deputy PM overseeing energy and the economy - Alexander Novak
* Deputy PM overseeing agriculture and ecology - Dmitry Patrushev
* Deputy PM overseeing transport - Vitaly Savelyev
* Agriculture Minister - Oksana Lut (was Dmitry Patrushev)
* Finance Minister - Anton Siluanov
* Economy Minister - Maxim Reshetnikov
* Energy Minister - Sergei Tsivilev (was Nikolai Shulginov)
* Trade and Industry Minister - Anton Alikhanov (was Denis Manturov)
