About half of the 17 top Russian police...
by Sergei Bulavin and Sergei Gerasimov. Although Russia"s Defense Ministry has long been under civilian leadership, serving police continue to run the Interior Ministry and both Bulavin and Gerasimov are senior officers.Other top officials who lost their jobs include Maj. Gen. Viktor Sosyura, the interior minister of Buryatia, who is facing smuggling charges; Maj. Gen. Nikolai Osyak, the interior minister of the republic of Karachai-Circassia; and Maj. Gen. Viktor Lesnyak, Tuva"s interior minister.
Most of the dismissed generals were chiefs of regional police administrations and some heads of federal Interior Ministry directorates.
Also on Thursday, Medvedev moved to introduce tougher punishment for police found guilty of crimes, submitting a bill to the parliament imposing harsher sentences than for civilians convicted of similar offences.
The president signed an order to halve the federal Interior Ministry"s senior administration to 10,000
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