PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, August 21 (AVN) - Colonel General Vladimir Tikhomirov, deputy Interior Minister and the ministry's troops commander, made a stopover at the Kamchatka Peninsula on his way to the Chukotka autonomous district, a spokesman for the Kamchatka police department said on Tuesday.
Tikhomirov met Major General Yuri Astakhov, chief of the regional police department, and heard Astakhov's report on the law-enforcement agencies' activities.
In Chukotka Tikhomirov will visit the Bilibino nuclear power plant and check the maintenance of its security which is carried out by an Interior Ministry special unit.