As Was Totally Expected...

 ... one of the greatest managers of Russian economy in very many decades. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has selected acting Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to form the next cabinet, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said early Friday morning. Members of the Russian government had to tender their resignations on Tuesday, when Putin was inaugurated for a fifth term as the country’s head of state. In accordance with the legally-mandated reshuffle, the Russian leader has to propose a candidate for prime minister for approval by the State Duma, the lower chamber of the parliament. On Friday, Putin officially nominated Mishustin to remain in charge of the government, according to Volodin. When he met the outgoing cabinet earlier in the week to discuss its achievements, the president expressed his approval of the ministers’ work.

Absolutely wonderful news (for Russia) and congratulations to Mikhail Iosifovich Mishustin. No fancy talk, no BS, no PR just hard work of keeping an accelerating locomotive of Russian economy on track. A consummate technocrat with strategic vision. Now to Belousov--another brain behind Russia's explosive economic growth. 

Speaking at a panel session on efficiency and competitiveness at the international ‘Russia’ exhibition-forum, Belousov laid out a roadmap for implementing the long-term economic strategy announced by President Vladimir Putin earlier in the day. The key, according to him, will be a transition from a demand-driven to a supply-driven economy. “We need to create conditions in which the growth impulse will not be external, from monetary demand, but come from the production sector itself,” Belousov told the panel.

Boy, these two guys will not pass the basic test for traders on Wall Street (/sarcasm).