The Ministry of Internal Affairs will fire 110 thousand people

The Russian Interior Ministry is planning to fire 110,000 people in order to reduce budget expenditures. This was announced to Vedomosti by Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev at a closed meeting with deputies, a source in the United Russia faction in the State Duma told.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has not officially announced the scale of the staff reduction. Kolokoltsev publicly stated that "the parameters for optimizing the staffing levels have not been fully developed."

A source in the faction said that the reduction of personnel was discussed at the closed session: “The minister said that the reduction would require about 110,000 people, but as of today, the initial reduction will require the dismissal of 78,700 people.”

Vedomosti

• In February, the Russian government proposed that all law enforcement agencies cut costs, including by cutting salaries or laying off up to 10 percent of their employees. As of February 1, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stopped hiring new employees.
• By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 12, 2014, the maximum staffing level of the internal affairs agencies of Russia was set at more than 1.1 million people - including employees with ranks and technical personnel. Some positions in the Ministry of Internal Affairs remain vacant.