Putin asked not to put departmental instructions above the law
Moscow. August 16. INTERFAX.RU — President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday declared the inadmissibility of the occasions when departmental documents have precedence before the law, as it was during Stalin’s NKVD.
The meeting on development of transport infrastructure in the North-West of the Russian Federation drew the President’s attention to a situation when goods which are moved in Russia are subjected to customs procedures. According to them, the reason is that, despite amendments to the law, several agencies sent out the special methodological letters.
“What can be a methodical letters, contrary to the law?” in this context Putin.
“This is the practice of the NKVD. Exactly, exactly. Before it was. Departmental instructions were placed above the law. Thank God we stopped, I hope this practice”, — said the President.