| The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has had his deputies cut Vladimir Putin yesterday appointed by his decree two deputy ministers of internal affairs - Andrei Novikov and Mikhail Sukhodolsky. At the same time, the president relieved six generals from similar positions: Sergei Shchadrin, Evgeniy Solovyov, Mikhail Pankov, Mikhail Ignatiev, Sergei Verevkin-Rakhalsky, Vitaly Mozyakov. However, the latter two will not suffer greatly from such personnel changes - Mr. Mozyakov, having lost his status as a deputy minister, according to our information, will continue to head the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, and Mr. Verevkin-Rakhalsky is still an active employee of the FSB of the Russian Federation and I was simply seconded to the police. The latest changes have finally brought the senior management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation into line with the principles of administrative reform, although this should have happened back in October last year.
On July 19, 2004, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on reforming the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, and already on October 20, the structure of the ministry was to be brought into line with the norms of the entire administrative reform. However, the process of restructuring the police department was delayed. Only by November it became clear what the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs would look like: instead of 12 deputy ministers, only four were to remain, instead of 37 directorates, 15 departments appeared. At the same time, Alexander Chekalin was appointed first deputy minister, Arkady Edelev, who also received the post of deputy minister, was assigned to head the regional operational headquarters for managing the counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus.
All other senior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who had the rank of general found themselves in limbo for many months, having received the prefix “temporary position.” Only in mid-February this year, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the appointment of department heads. The situation with the deputy ministers did not become clearer then. Yesterday, the president finally dotted all the i's.
He dismissed Sergei Shchadrin, who oversaw the public security police and the traffic police, Evgeniy Solovyov, who was responsible for personnel, Mikhail Pankov, who at the same time headed the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Southern Federal District, Mikhail Ignatiev, who was responsible for the rear service, Sergei Verevkin-Rakhalsky, who oversaw the economic service and tax crimes, and Vitaly Mozyakov, who also headed the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. “The documents on the appointment of Mozyakov as head of the Investigative Committee without the prefix “deputy minister” have already been sent to the presidential administration,” noted our source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. - No other candidates were nominated for this post. Various technical issues are currently being resolved. As a deputy minister, Mozyakov still had the right to sign orders on the creation of interregional investigative groups, and it is necessary to determine how to reserve such a right for the general.” As for Mr. Verevkin-Rakhalsky, the situation with him is even simpler. “All this time he remained an employee of the FSB of the Russian Federation with the rank of deputy director and was simply seconded to the Ministry of Internal Affairs,” noted our interlocutor. “The general’s contract with the FSB ends only in two years, and he will simply return to his native department.”
According to the presidential decree, Andrei Novikov and Mikhail Sukhodolsky were appointed new deputy ministers. The first was for a long time the head of the Krasnogvardeisky District Department of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg, and in 2001, after Boris Gryzlov joined the police, he immediately moved to the position of head of the department of affairs of the Minister of Internal Affairs. In May 2003, Novikov was appointed head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Northwestern Federal District. Mikhail Sukhodolsky came to the internal affairs bodies in 1990, worked in the Moscow Department of Economic Crimes, then in the Main Directorate for Economic Crimes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Internal Affairs Directorate of Sheremetyevo Airport. Then he was unexpectedly appointed to the post of head of the Main Directorate of Private Security. It is still unclear what areas Novikov and Sukhodolsky will oversee at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This should be determined by internal departmental order by Minister Rashid Nurgaliev. Alexander SHVAREV |
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