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Medvedev Fires Cherkesov

President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed the head of the Federal Arms Procurement Agency, Viktor Cherkesov, the Kremlin said Sunday, without giving a reason.

Cherkesov was deputy head of the Federal Security Service in the late 1990s when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin led the service. But in 2007, Putin publicly scolded Cherkesov, then head of the Federal Drug Control Service, for publicizing a feud with the FSB in an open letter. Cherkesov was appointed head of the arms procurement agency in May 2008.

(Reuters)

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