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Vladimir Putin included the State Aircontrol and the Federal Migration Service in the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to Interfax, he announced this at a meeting with the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, director of the State Academy of Sciences Viktor Ivanov, commander of the internal troops Viktor Zolotov and the deputy head of the FMS Ekaterina Egorova.
“I begin from the fact that the whole structure (state -core. - Ed.) Will work self -sufficient, independently, but within the framework of the Ministry of the Interior,” said Putin, according to the transcript of the meeting that later appeared on the Kremlin’s website. “The same applies to the migration service.”
In the evening, Putin’s corresponding decree was published on the Kremlin’s website. According to this document, the State Directorate and the FMS is abolished, and their states are transferred to the state of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and 30 percent of the employees of the former migration service are reduced, while the reduction of drug police are not provided.
Putin also introduced to the State Duma a draft amendments to various laws required in connection with the restructuring of law enforcement agencies.
The fact that the presidential administration discusses plans to disband the FSK and the FMS, became known in February 2015 . Then it was reported that 27 thousand employees of the State Directorate will be fired, and the remaining 7.5 thousand will be transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In accordance with the same project, the Ministry of Health was supposed to control the legal traffic control of drugs.
The authors of the proposal were called the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was reported that in the FSK itself they opposed the disbandment of the department.
As for the FMS, about half of its staff - 19.5 thousand people - was also supposed to be transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the same time, it was planned to entrust the control of labor migration.
Later in the same month it was reported that the FMS defended its position and would not be disbanded. Meanwhile, regarding the State Air Control, it was said that it would be abolished by March 1, 2015. However, this never happened.