MOSCOW. Feb 11 (Interfax) - President Vladimir Putin by decree has dismissed several high-ranking officers of the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN).
Those dismissed include head of the FSKN internal security department Sergei Buzinov, first deputy head and deputy chief of the FSKN operative department Alexander Kirushev and Mikhail Shavelkin, respectively.
The president also dismissed deputy chief of the FSKN division in the Novosibirsk region Sergei Amelin, chief of the division in Mari El Alexander Kravchenko, head of the division in the Murmansk region Alexander Ushakov and head of the department in the Novgorod region German Shirokov.
The presidential decree was posted on the Kremlin's website on February 9.