Putin’s power reshuffle: loyalists appointed to Moscow’s Main Police Directorate

Putin’s power reshuffle: loyalists appointed to Moscow’s Main Police Directorate

Vladimir Putin has made major changes and appointments in law enforcement agencies.

According to Decree №620 of August 31, 2026, the following reshuffles took place

Released from posts:

— Alexey Anikin — Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for St. Petersburg;

— Nikolay Borozdin — First Deputy Prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory;

— Vitaly Vasiliev — head of the FSSP Main Directorate for the Krasnoyarsk Territory;

— Vadim Gaidov — Deputy Head of the GUOOOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia;

— Andrey Gusev — head of the Investigative Directorate for the Kursk Region;

— Pavel Danilov — First Deputy Prosecutor of the Leningrad Region;

— Andrey Egorov — head of the Investigative Directorate for the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug;

— Anatoly Kasyanenko — head of the FSSP Main Directorate for the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region;

— Sergey Kuzmin — head of the criminal investigation department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow;

— Anastasia Leletina — Deputy Director of the Department of the Ministry of Justice;

— Alexey Nazarko — head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Smolensk region;

— Sergey Savochkin — Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia;

— Dmitry Tkachenko — head of the department of professional training and educational work of the FSSP.

Received appointments:

— Alexander Akulov — Deputy Director of the Ministry of Justice Department for the Protection of National Interests from External Influence;

— Mikhail Vanichkin — head of the criminal investigation department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow;

— Dmitry Efremov — Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Altai Territory — Chief of Police;

— Mikhail Kazakov — Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Service for Citizenship Issues — Head of the Digital Development Department;

— Evgeny Kazanov — head of the FSSP Main Directorate for Moscow;

— Vladimir Lavrushenko — First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Moscow;

— Andrey Maslov — Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee;

— Vitaly Migaev — Deputy Head of the Department of Logistics and Medical Support of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;

— Vladislav Novikov — head of the Forensic Expert Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;

— Oleg Paukov — Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow — Chief of Police;

— Andrey Polyanskov — head of the public order department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow;

— Alexander Sutyagin — head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Trans-Baikal Territory;

— Elena Shkurina — head of the Federal Bailiff Service for the Kursk region;

— Valery Ustov — head of the Investigative Directorate for Kabardino-Balkaria for two years;

— Andrey Fishman — head of the Investigative Directorate for the Penza Region for five years.