Employees of the economic police of the Main Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region very much “loved” their now former leader, Mikhail Lobanov. Judge for yourself how much: it’s been a month since Lobanov left his post and went to head the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow, and they continue to exchange such humorous videos. It’s not surprising – according to the surviving operators of the St. Petersburg BEP, during the year of work at Lobanov he managed to actually complete the collapse of the management. Thanks to his managerial indifference, coupled with the Moscow general’s habit of “being silent and not letting them in,” many of the most experienced operas of the old school quit the department themselves or were removed from the staff. In fact, Lobanov used his place in St. Petersburg as a safe haven while awaiting his return to Moscow. True, there was some irony of fate. He was expecting a cosmic position as the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central District of the capital, but went to the Southern Administrative District (even in comparison with the leadership of the UEB and the PC of St. Petersburg, the promotion is dubious). Now Lobanov’s place in St. Petersburg is now occupied by his former deputy Vadim Strokov. By the way, he is the last of the leaders of the first wave of Muscovites who came to the Northern capital in the winter of 2019 along with the new head of the Main Directorate, Roman Plugin. The attitude of the employees of the St. Petersburg UEB and PC is still neutral towards Strokov. Whether we will see the same entertaining video sketches in the future – time will tell.
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