The nationalities minister will be Vladimir Yakovlev, an ex-governor of St Petersburg and one of Mr Putin's political foes.
But while the magazine's mission may be earnest, its name is "a joke, " as Editor in Chief Vladimir Yakovlev puts it.
Not all have chosen happily: a petition to recall Vladimir Yakovlev, the ineffectual governor of St Petersburg, attracted some 250, 000 signatures last month.
He has backed at least a dozen winning candidates in recent regional elections, including Vladimir Yakovlev, mayor of Russia's second city, St Petersburg.
Picco quietly left a few weeks later, however--about the time that a scandal flared up in the media over a corrupt U.N. procurement officer, Alexander Yakovlev.
This coalition of two separate movements, Fatherland and All Russia, was formed in 1999 by the mayors of Moscow and St Petersburg, Yury Luzhkov and Vladimir Yakovlev.
The exploits of Messrs Sevan, Yakovlev and others may have done more than just a terrible disservice to the wretched people of Iraq they were paid to help.
ECONOMIST: Corruption at the heart of the United Nations | The
If critics of Mr Yakovlev do well in the election, they will redouble their campaign for more open government and restrictions on his right to rule by decree.
The bill passed by the State Duma is named in turn after Dima Yakovlev, a 2-year-old boy who died while in the care of a U.S. adoptive family, RAPSI said.
CNN: Russia's lower house approves bill to ban U.S. adoption
Its Number Three candidate, Governor Vladimir Yakovlev of Petersburg, has clearly annoyed Mr Luzhkov by suggesting that the government might be moved from Moscow to his city, the old Tsarist capital.
Dima Yakovlev - a 21-month-old toddler who had left the home only a few months earlier - died of heatstroke after being accidentally left in a car by his adoptive father in Virginia.
World Bank President James Wolfensohn also received an invitation, as did a host of other dignitaries, including the current governor of St Petersburg, Vladimir Yakovlev, and a possible rival for the post, Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko.
Mr. Yakovlev (interpretation from Russian): I fully agree with the previous speaker that perhaps the most important condition for universal dialogue in the area of culture and not just in the area of culture, is depoliticization of that dialogue.
UNESCO: Dialogue among civilizations: Address by Alexandre Yakovlev (Russian Federation)
While Yakovlev has acknowledged that the secret protocol was illegal, he has, nonetheless, maintained that the subsequent incorporation of Baltic countries into the Soviet Union must be considered as historically justifiable on the grounds that it was "approved" by legislative bodies in each of the Baltic States.
Accordingly, Western governments and publics should immediately join those within the East bloc who are calling upon the Yakovlev Commission and the Soviet government formally to repudiate the August 1939 agreements and the Nazi-Soviet collaboration in political, economic and military spheres of which they were a part the repercussions of which are still being felt.
Whatever Mr Yakovlev's motivation and many in St Petersburg believe he is mainly a creation of the powerful commercial interests which financed his election in 1996, rather than a political figure in his own right a victory by his supporters, whether fairly gained or not, will mean the end of the city's experiment in separating powers, at least until the gubernatorial elections in two years' time.
应用推荐