A diverse variety of informal political groups emerged since the presidency of Vladimir Putin starting in 1999. They include remnants of the Yeltsin family, Saint Petersburg lawyers and economists, an
Putin with Sergey Naryshkin, Dmitry Medvedev, Elvira Nabiullina, Dmitry Kozak, Valentina Matviyenko, Sergei Ivanov, and Sergey Shoygu at the funeral of Yevgeny Primakov, 29 June 2015