Dmitry Medvedev said he had instructed Rosneft’s Board of Directors to appoint Sechin as its new CEO.

“I don’t need an ornamental expert council to legalise pre-drafted government decisions -- that would be totally useless. I would like the expert council to directly influence the key decisions that will be made by the government …”

Dmitry Medvedev congratulated the new Cabinet members and outlined the top seven priority, milestone achievements that, in his opinion, Russia’s new government must address in the next six months. “How well we handle these problems will demonstrate the government’s real policy platform – as opposed to the one on paper,” he said.

“My presence here at Camp David, as the head of the Russian delegation, <...> should be regarded as a symbol of a certain continuity of foreign policy and the primacy of the reset policy, to which President Obama and I have devoted a lot of time.”