SKOLKOVO. May 18 (Interfax) - Federal ministers must not be dismissed for individual flaws in their respective ministries' performance, although this approach does not mean ministers will stay in their offices indefinitely, President Dmitry Medvedev has said.
"I don't think it is correct to subject federal-level executives to punishment immediately for individual flaws, because the system they are in charge of did not necessarily take shape in their time after all," Medvedev said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Medvedev was answering a Norwegian reporter's question about whether, in his opinion, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Prosecutor General Yury Chaika should be held responsible for the recent corruption scandals connected with their agencies.
"But this does not mean that I will not do this. Obviously, rotation will be needed at the ministries sooner or later," Medvedev said.