President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed...

Yury Kalinin, who previously headed the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) for five years, was appointed deputy justice minister in August 2009.

In January, it was announced that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had removed Kalinin from a government commission on crime prevention.

Medvedev has recently dismissed a number of top local and federal FSIN officials after several deaths in Russian pre-trial detention centers sparked a wave of criticism across the country. The situation came to international attention in November with the death of a lawyer representing London-based hedge fund Hermitage Capital.

Putin said while on a visit to France that Sergei Magnitsky"s death in pre-trial detention was "a tragedy" and a top prison official admitted the Federal Penitentiary Service was partly to blame.

Major General Viktor Pogolov was appointed interior minister of the republic of Ingushetia, which saw an upsurge of militant violence lately, with frequent attacks

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