MOSCOW. March 11 (Interfax) - President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree dismissing Nikolai Vinnichenko from the post of presidential envoy in the Northwestern Federal District, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov has announced.
Putin replaced him with Vladimir Bulavin who used to be first deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council.
Simultaneously Prosecutor General Yury Chaika sent a letter to Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko proposing that the Federation Council appoint Vinnichenko Deputy Prosecutor General.