Presidency of Sergey Shoygu (The More Things Changed)

The Presidency of Sergey Shoygu began on Monday, May 7th, 2018, in the Hall of the Order of St. Andrew of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow. The presidential oath of office was administered to Putin by Chairman of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin. In addition, in the Presidium of the ceremony, according to tradition, was the leaders of the legislature: Chairwoman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko and Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.

In his first official act, President Shoygu appointed Volodin as his Prime Minister and reshuffled the cabinet of his predecessor and election rival, Dimitry Medvedev.