Recently President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the firing of Viktor Grechman, a police Major-General of the Tomsk Oblast. Serving as the motive for this, as is not difficult to guess, was the murder of local journalist Konstantin Popov, who passed away after the latest maniac-cop had given him a beating.

Judging by the words of Grechman himself, he had no intent of ending his public service career with the MVD. “For thirty-nine years I have worked in the organs of internal affairs… When all the decisions that are in my competence will be adopted, the leadership of the MVD will give me an assessment,” he confidently announced to the media.

And so, Medvedev did not wait around for Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Grechman himself to sort out «the whole situation» – instead he went above their heads and personally ordered the firing.  And this is right: the situation is at hand.