Factbox-Who Did Putin Give the Top Jobs to in Russia?

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin changed some top jobs in a reshuffle of the government and the Kremlin over recent days, though most of the top jobs remained the same

Following are the key jobs and the biggest changes:

Biggest changes:

* Defence Minister - Andrei Belousov (was Sergei Shoigu).

* Secretary of the Security Council - Sergei Shoigu (was Nikolai Patrushev)

* Deputy chief of staff and overseeing the economy - Maxim Oreshkin 

* Kremlin aide overseeing defence industry - Alexei Dyumin(formerly he was governor of Tula and for many years served as a senior bodyguard for Putin)

* Kremlin aide for shipbuilding - Nikolai Patrushev

* First Deputy PM - Denis Manturov

* Deputy PM Alexander Novak given additional duties overseeing the economy. He is also Putin's energy point man. 

* Deputy PM overseeing agriculture and ecology - Dmitry Patrushev. He was agriculture minister before. 

* Agriculture Minister - Oksana Lut (was Dmitry Patrushev)  

* Energy Minister - Sergei Tsivilev (was Nikolai Shulginov)

* Trade and Industry Minister - Anton Alikhanov (was Denis Manturov) 

Top positions that were left unchanged 

* Prime Minister - Mikhail Mishustin (If the president is ever unable to fulfil his duties, then the prime minister takes over his duties

KREMLIN 

* Kremlin chief of staff - Anton Vaino

* Kremlin first deputy chief of staff - Alexei Gromov

* Kremlin first deputy chief of staff - Sergei Kiriyenko

* Kremlin deputy chief of staff - Dmitry Kozak 

* Kremlin deputy chief of staff - Dmitry Peskov (also Putin's spokesman)

* Kremlin foreign policy aide - Yuri Ushakov 

MILITARY AND SECURITY 

* Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov - to remain in his job. 

* FSB Director - Alexander Bortnikov

* SVR Director - Sergei Naryshkin 

* Chief of Russia's national guard - Viktor Zolotov 

* Federal Guards Service (FCO) - Dmitry Kochnev 

* Foreign Minister - Sergei Lavrov

* Interior Minister - Vladimir Kolokoltsev

GOVERNMENT 

* Finance Minister - Anton Siluanov

* Economy Minister - Maxim Reshetnikov

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge in Moscow and Darya Korsunskaya in London; Editing by Andrew Osborn and Alison Williams)

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