Kommersant announced the resignation of the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

The deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Mikhail Vanichkin can leave his post. This is written by Kommersant with reference to unnamed sources.

As the publication clarifies, Vanichkin oversees the “criminal” block. The deputy head of the newspaper calls the head of the Main Directorate of his own security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Makarov, whom the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev “knows well from the time when both worked as operatives”.

According to Kommersant, other “loud” resignations are not excluded.

On March 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the head of the traffic police Vladimir Nilov. It was reported that Nilova, who recently turned 62 years old, was fired due to the achievement of the age limit of the civil service.

Among the candidates for the post of chief of the traffic police, the head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Khabarovsk Territory Mikhail Chernikov was called .