In August of this year, President Dmitry Medvedev sent into retirement the chiefs of the main administrations of the FSIN [the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments, formerly known as GULag, the agency responsible for running the prison camp system–Trans.] for Primorsky Kray and Sverdlovsk Oblast. About this was reported with six lines on the official site of the Kremlin. Released from occupied posts were chief of the GU [Main Administration–Trans.] FSIN for Primorsky Kray major-general Anatoly Zavadsky and chief of the GU FSIN for Sverdlovsk Oblast lieutenant-general Alexander Ladik.

Inasmuch as the president’s site did not deem it necessary to report the reasons for the dismissal of two highly-placed ranks from the FSIN, we had to make do with the clarifications of «Interfax» (apparently, this is a separate state structure). The informagency reported that the reason for the dismissal of the regional chiefs became «multiple violations in the work of the subdivisions entrusted to them«. Further on were cited the words of official FSIN representative Alexander Kromin, about how these violations had been identified in the course of checks carried out by the central apparat of the FSIN.