MOSCOW, June 11. /TASS/. Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev will ask the Russian president to dismiss Major-General Andrei Puchkov, the chief of Moscow’s Western Administrative District police force, which opened a criminal case against Ivan Golunov, an investigative reporter of the Internet resource Meduza.

"I have made a decision to ask the Russian president to dismiss the chief of the Moscow Western Administrative District’s police force Major-General Andrei Puchkov and chief of the Drug Control Directorate of the Moscow police force, Major-General Yuri Devyatkin," Kolokoltsev told the media on Tuesday.