Hot: President Putin fired five generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree dismissing a number of senior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee from their posts. The document was published on the official portal of legal information.
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Under the same decree, the President made new appointments to a number of federal state agencies. There was no announcement of the reasons for the personnel changes.
This is not the first wave of high-ranking federal agency employees being fired. Last month, the Russian leader dismissed eleven generals from the Interior Ministry, the Emergencies Ministry, the Federal Service for Enforcement of Penalties, and the Investigative Committee.