The Western press closely monitoring recent personnel shifts in the power agencies of the Russian Federation. In particular, the resignation of General Yedelev.
The French newspaper Le Monde pointed out in this regard:
"Heads rolled" in the "Interior Ministry" in response to rising crime in the ranks of Russian police force: President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed 18 high-ranking heads of departments, and has also promised to tighten criminal liability for Ministry of Interior's staff committing a crime, and to conduct a large-scale reform of the institution.
In recent months, the headlines were filled with reports of killings, beatings, looting and forgery of evidence involving the police, Le Monde's correspondent, Marie Jego, continues.
"Big purge" of President Medvedev is a signal to society. These dismissals, appears to have put an end to the impunity that has developed in the era of Vladimir Putin.
Supporter of the "dictatorship of law" and "vertical line of power", a former KGB lieutenant colonel, turning a blind eye to police collusion with criminals, helped to create a system now gotten out of control.
The collapse is so strong that it can not cope with several dismissals and promises of higher wages. Policemen, judges - the whole system is infected, the author notes.
"Reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not make us forget that no investigation into the murders of journalists, lawyers and human rights have not been completed", Jego emphasized.
The biggest surprise was the resignation of General Arkady Yedelev, who was in charge of the so-called "counter-terrorist operation" in the North Caucasus, where the ORB-2 (Operative and Investigative Bureau No. 2) controlled by him used "Stalinist methods".
In addition, the paper adds, he is a personal friend of Ramzan Kadyrov.
"His expulsion is perhaps a signal that the protege of Moscow in the Caucasus lost the halo of sanctity", the journalist assumed.
According to information received from Chechen sources in Moscow, Ramzan Kadyrov, who arrived in Russia's capital a couple of weeks ago, was placed under surveillance, possibly on orders from the Kremlin: he did not leave the hotel, and his mobile phone was switched off.
Department of Monitoring,
Kavkaz Center
