Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to dismiss five generals and a police colonel from the Interior Ministry.

Axaraz reports that Chief of the Office of the Interior Ministry in Vladimir Region, Major General Vasily Kukushkin, Deputy Chief of the Altai Territory, Major General Alexander Laas, Chief of the Office on Yaroslavl Region, Major General Andrei Lipilini, Chief of the Ministry's Operations Department, Major General Alexander Udovenko, Deputy Chief of the Logistics and Medical Support Department, Major General Yuri Instranki and First Deputy Chief of the Forensic Science Center, Police Colonel Emil Musin were dismissed from the post by the decree of Putin.