OREANDA-NEWS. October 15, 2008. Dmitry Medvedev met with Regional Development Minister Dmitry Kozak and Deputy Plenipotentiary Presidential Representative in the Urals Federal District Viktor Basargin.
 
The head of state supported the government cabinet’s initiative to make changes in the composition of the cabinet and said that decrees appointing Dmitry Kozak to the position of Deputy Prime Minister in charge of preparations for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi and Viktor Basargin to the position of Minister of Regional Development will be signed very soon.