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Investigative Personnel Head Appointed
Valentina Polyakova, head of personnel at the Justice Ministry, may be appointed deputy chairman for personnel of the Prosecutor General's Office's investigative committee. Chairman of that committee Alexander Bastrykin received such a proposal from the presidential administration. Lieut. Gen. Polyakova headed personnel at the Prosecutor General's Office for six years before Yury Chaika brought her with him to Justice.
The Prosecutor General's Office's investigative committee will begin to operate on September 6. So far, only its head has been chosen. That is Bastrykin, Russian President Vladimir Putin's classmate from Leningrad State University. He will have 12 deputies, including a first deputy and a deputy in charge of military investigations. All of them will be appointed by the president. Similarly to Chaika, Bastrykin will have seven deputies in the districts and five in the central office. The deputy for personnel will oversee the hiring of 16,656 people. That is the size of the committee specified in the president's order.
In the Prosecutor General's Office, Polyakov was characterized as “catching on to the mood and thoughts of the bosses very quickly and carefully implementing them.” She headed the personnel department there under Yury Skuratov, but became more prominent once Vladimir Ustinov took over. She is known to have readily dismissed those who fell into disfavor with Ustinov, although never taking the initiative for purges herself.
Under the president's order, everyone appointed to the Prosecutor General's Office's investigative committee will work under a one-year contract. Next year, a general investigative committee is expected to be created to combine the committees of the Interior Ministry, Prosecutor General's Office and federal drug control office. Ustinov, who had been opposed to such a committee for many years, is said to have had a change of heart after he was promised the chairmanship of it.
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All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 10, 2007
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