MOSCOW, June 17 Nikolai Pankov and Tatyana Shevtsova have been relieved of their posts as deputy defense ministers, Ruslan Tsalikov has been removed from his post as first deputy minister, the corresponding decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been posted on the website of the official publication of legal acts.
«To relieve from their posts: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Pankov, State Secretary — Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation; Ruslan Khadzhismelovich Tsalikov, First Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation; Tatyana Viktorovna Shevtsova, Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation,» the document says.
This decree comes into force on the day of its publication, June 17 June.