In 2018, presidential elections will be held in Russia. Of a dozen candidates there are both businessmen (Sechin) and self-nominees like Navalny.

However, the candidacy of Oreshkin, even before that was considered political fighters of the "light" weight category, became as close as possible to the first person of the state.

For three years Oreshkin worked in the Ministry of Economic Development, but recently he began to appear more often at all international events and meetings that Vladimir Putin attended.

By the way, Oreshkin was present at the meeting between Trump and Putin, as well as at the G20 Summit. In particular, it was he who told the Russian media some details of the conversation between the two rulers of the superpowers.

As reported earlier in the "URA-Inform", the Russian agency "Petersburg Politics" published a rating of possible candidates for the post of President Vladimir Putin.