Purge in the security agencies: Putin mass-fires generals amid a crisis of trust and systemic failures

Purge in the security agencies: Putin mass-fires generals amid a crisis of trust and systemic failures

Vladimir Putin made major resignations and appointments in the security agencies.

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

Dismissed from their positions:

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

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

— Vitaly Vasiliev — Head of the Main Directorate of the Federal Bailiff Service for Krasnoyarsk Krai;

— Vadim Gaidov — Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for the Protection of the Interior Ministry of Russia;

— Andrey Gusev — head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kursk Region;

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

— Andrey Egorov — head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug;

— Anatoly Kasyanenko — Head of the Main Directorate of the Federal Bailiff Service for Khabarovsk Krai 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 of the National Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia;

— Dmitry Tkachenko, Head of the Department of Professional Training and Educational Work of the Federal Bailiff Service.

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 Chief 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 Main Directorate of the Federal Bailiff Service 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 Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;

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

— Andrey Polyanskov — Head of the Public Order Protection 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 Committee of the Russian Federation for Kabardino-Balkaria for two years;

— Andrey Fishman — head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Penza Region for five years.