Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approves new distribution of responsibilities between first deputy prime ministers, deputy prime ministers and chief of staff of the government executive office

Pursuant to this document, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, in addition to his current responsibilities, will be responsible for coordinating federal executive bodies' work in the following areas: drafting guidelines for Russia's socio-economic development; pursuing a consolidated fiscal, lending and monetary policy, and managing Russia's sovereign debt and financial assets; state financial planning, drafting and executing the federal budget, improving government spending efficiency and the budget system; drafting and implementing tax policy; state investment policy and drafting federal targeted programmes while also developing assessment criteria for these programmes; state regulation of financial markets, as well as insurance and auditing activities.