MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti) - Konstantin Pulikovsky, 57, former presidential envoy to Russia's Far Eastern Federal District, has been appointed head of the Federal Agency for Environmental, Technological and Atomic Oversight.
Pulikovsky was introduced to his staff Monday, the agency said.
Kamil Iskhakov, mayor of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan's capital of Kazan, replaced Pulikovsky. The agency was temporarily headed by deputy head Andrei Malyshev since July 2, 2004.
Pulikovsky was deputy commander of the North Caucasus military district and was in command of the Northwest military group in the first 1994-1996 military campaign in Chechnya. From July to August 1996, Pulikovsky was commander of the Unified Federal Group of Federal Forces in Chechnya.
His political career started in Krasnodar, southern Russia, in 1998. Pulikovsky was presidential envoy to the Far East since May 2000 until his recent appointment.
