Putin dismissed the head of the abolished administration department.

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the head of the Presidential Office for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign countries. The relevant decree was posted on October 20 on the official Internet portal of legal information.

"To dismiss Igor Venidiktovich Maslov from the post of head of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries," the document says.

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