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Committee of Ministers

at one time the supreme consultative body on lawmaking in Russia; a council of the tsar and the highest officials on all questions of state administration.

The Committee of Ministers was founded in 1802 under Alexander I. Its membership included ministers, the heads of the main administrations, and the state treasurer; after 1810 it also included the chairmen of departments in the State Council and, after 1812, individuals appointed by the tsar. The procurator general of the Holy Synod was invited to committee sessions. The post of chairman of the Committee of Ministers was created in 1810. Among the affairs the Committee dealt with were the drafts of new decrees, statutes, and rules; questions affecting more than one ministry; peasant disturbances and revolutionary outbursts; supervision of the state apparatus; the preservation and propagation of Orthodoxy; and the complaints of pomeshchiki (gentry landlords) and peasants.

From 1812 to 1865 the post of chairman of the Committee of Ministers was combined with the post of chairman of the State Council. From 1872, the Committee of Ministers was also the highest agency of the censorship system. The committee was abolished in April 1906, and its business was distributed between the Council of Ministers and the State Council.

The chairmen of the Committee of Ministers were N. P. Rumiantsev (1810–12), N. I. Saltykov (1812–16), P. V. Lopukhin (1816–27), V. P. Kochubei (1827–34), N. N. Novosil’tsev (1834–38), I. V. Vasil’chikov (1838–17), V. V. Levashev (1847–48), A. I. Chernyshev (1848–56), A. F. Orlov (1856–61), D. N. Bludov (1861–64), P. P. Gagarin (1864–72), P. N. Ignat’ev (1872–79), P. A. Valuev (1879–81), M. Kh. Reitern (1881–86), N. Kh. Bunge (1887–95), I. N. Durnovo (1895–1903), and S. Iu. Witte (1903–06).

REFERENCES

Zhurnaly Komiteta ministrov. . . 1802–1826, vols. 1–2. St. Petersburg, 1888–91.
Istoricheskii obzor deiatel’nosti Komiteta ministrov, vols. 1–5. St. Petersburg, 1902.
Eroshkin, N. P. Istoriia gosudarstvennykh uchrezhdenii dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1968.

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AaThe committee of ministers tasked with drafting the government's platform received a draft statement over the weekend, which they are expected to discuss during a second meeting on Monday.

Hizbullah arsenal will not hold up Cabinet policy statement by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)

Antonio Milososki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia, took part in the meeting of the Bureau of the Committee of Ministers and the Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which was held in Brussels on 18 June.

Republic of Macedonia--Council of Europe by Macedonian Diplomatic Bulletin

The Prison Reform Trust and Unlock (the National Association of Reformed Offenders) have written to the Council of Europe's committee of ministers urging it to take action when it meets in June.

WALES: Pressure for those in jail to get vote by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

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