Russian leader Vladimir Putin has sacked the first deputy head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Alexander Chupriyan.
“Release Internal Service Colonel General Alexander Petrovich Chupriyan from of First Deputy Minister of Civil Defence, Emergency Situations and Elimination of the Consequences of Natural Disasters,” the Kremlin website reads.
Chupriyan has been a first deputy since June 2018, before that he was a deputy for 12 years. After Yevgeny Zinichev’s death in September 2021, he headed the Emergency Situations Ministry until Alexander Kurenkov was appointed minister in May last year.
Chupriyan’s impending resignation has already been reported by RBC. According to the source, his contract ended at the end of March and Kurenkov told Chupriyan earlier this year that he would not renew it.Putin’s post dismissed Alexander Chupriyan, the first deputy head of Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry,
