MOSCOW. Oct 17 (Interfax) - President Dmitry Medvedev has made senior appointments in Russia's Investigative Committee.
A presidential decree appointed Andrei Markov, major general in the justice service, as head of the Committee's department for the Moscow region, and named Maj. Gen. Andrei Lavrenko and Col. Pavel Nikolayev as heads of the departments for St. Petersburg and the republic of Tatarstan respectively.
Maj. Gen. Anatoly Kvashnin was put at the head of the Northwestern investigative department for the transportation industry.
All the appointments are for two-year stints.
Medvedev also appointed Maj. Gen. Pavel Barkovsky deputy head of the Committee's Chief Investigative Department and head of the department for exceptionally serious crimes against individuals and public security.