State Duma council to set timetable for cabinet nominations

Vyacheslav Volodin called an extraordinary State Duma council meeting for October 19 to determine how and when lawmakers will consider nominees for four deputy prime minister posts and transport minister, the chamber's press service said.

Mikhail Mishustin submitted the nominations to the State Duma after Vladimir Putin backed the prime minister's proposed cabinet changes.

Oleg Kozhemyako is proposed as deputy prime minister and presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District. Andrey Nikitin is nominated as deputy prime minister, and Irina Okladnikova as deputy prime minister and government chief of staff.

Anton Siluanov is proposed for the combined posts of deputy prime minister and finance minister. Dmitry Yadrov is nominated as transport minister.

Under the federal constitutional law on the Russian government, the State Duma considers the prime minister's nominations within a week of their submission.