MOSCOW, March 9 -- President Vladimir Putin named Sergei Lavrov foreign minister Tuesday as part of a new, second-term cabinet that combines economic reformers and former KGB hard-liners.

Without waiting for the reelection he is widely expected to win Sunday, Putin retained the cabinet's strongest advocates of market reforms and left the military and internal security forces in the hands of fellow KGB alumni. He removed entrenched ministers left from Boris Yeltsin's presidency in favor of his own loyalists and installed a close aide in the office of the new prime minister...