(Business Insider) President Vladimir Putin has carried out a major reshuffling of Russia's law enforcement in attempts to take an even stronger grasp of the country, the Financial Times reports.
In a sudden reshuffle, Putin has dismissed eight senior law-enforcement officials while promoting 12 others who are viewed as Putin loyalists.
The reshuffle was first announced on the presidential website Saturday as an official decree.
Among those promoted in the reshuffle, the FT notes, are Alexei Kudrin, who has been a longtime Putin confidant, as well as Igor Krasnov, an investigator into the death of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
The sudden law-enforcement reshuffle comes less than a month after Putin similarly made a surprise announcement of the creation of a national guard. […]
… According to Nikolay Petrov, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, Russia is likely to go through periods of extreme turmoil within the next year.
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