On November 6, Vladimir Yelagin was replaced with Stanislav Ilyasov as Minister for Coordination of the Development of the Chechen Republic.

On March 11, 2003, Valentina Matviyenko was dismissed from her position of a Deputy Prime Minister for Welfare as she became the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District.

On June 16, a position of Deputy Prime Minister for Housing was established and assumed by Vladimir Yakovlev, who had just resigned as Governor of Saint Petersburg.

On November 1, Ilya Klebanov resigned as Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies and was appointed Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District, replacing Valentina Matviyenko, who had been elected Governor of Saint Petersburg.

Mikhail Kasyanov was sacked from his position by President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2004, and was replaced with his Deputy Viktor Khristenko as acting Prime Minister.