Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Prosecutor Office Investigating Committee
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Putin’s University-Fellow to Head Russia’s FBI
A service similar to the U.S FBI will soon emerge here. Russia’s Federal Service of Investigation (FSI) will consolidate the investigating departments of all enforcement bodies of the country. The creation has been approved at the highest level, RBC Daily reported.
The respective ruling is yet to be inked, but the FSI establishment is the decided matter already, said an anonymous source with the RF Prosecutor General Office.
It was decided to set up a new service after holding presidential election in Russia. “The last organizational issues will be solved in summer and a new department will appear by September,” people in the Prosecutor General Office explained.
The frontrunners to the office of the FSI chief are head of the Prosecutor Office Investigating Committee Alexander Bastrykin and Interior Ministry’s Investigating Committee chief Alexei Anichin.
So, today’s concern is whether the top-ranked bureaucrat from prosecutors’ community or the one standing for the police will lead Russia's investigators starting from the fall. The chances are relatively equal - both Anichin and Bastrykin graduated from the legal department of the Leningrad State University together with Vladimir Putin in 1975, i.e. just 12 years earlier than President-Elect Dmitry Medvedev.
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