Head of Russian Federal Agency for Transport Supervision relieved of duties

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has relieved Gennady Kurzenkov,
head of the Russian Federal Agency for Transport Supervision, of his
duties, press-service of the government said on Tuesday. The official
resigned of his own accord, RIA Novosti reports.

Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin proposed the dismissal of
Kurzenkov after the terrorist attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport on
January 24, when 36 people were killed.

Kurzenkov started work in the post in January 2007. In October 2008,
he became the head of Federal Air Transport Agency, replacing Yevgeny
Bachurin, who took another job. In December, Kurzenkov returned to
head the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision. The former head of
Federal Agency for Air Navigation Alexander Neryadko replaced
Kurzenkov in the Federal Air Transport Agency. The air navigation
structure had its functions distributed with the air transport agency.
Both structures are supervised by the Transport Ministry.

Levitin dismissed the head of the department for state air supervision
in the Central Federal District Yuri Tsybin, his assistant Valery
Maletin, head of the transport security department of the Russian
Federal Agency for Transport Supervision Alexander Sveshnikov, deputy
head of the transport security department of the air transport agency
Sergey Poplavsky.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the blast at Moscow
airport demonstrates unprofessionalism. He ordered heads of the
Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Interior Ministry to prepare
proposals on punishing officials for poor security.

General-Major Andrey Alexeyev, head of the transport department in the
Central Federal District was also dismissed, press-secretary of the
president Natalya Timakova told RIA Novosti.

The bomb at the international terminal of Moscow's Domodedovo airport
was activated by a suicide bomber.