27 December 2001
Police chief in Brest region elected chairman of regional hockey federation
The newly appointed chief of the Internal Affairs Department of the Brest Regional Executive Committee, 50-year-old police Colonel Vladimir Shafarenko, was unanimously elected chairman of the Regional Hockey
Federation at the federation's founding conference held this past week.
Mr. Shafarenko was appointed to head the regional police in November. While presenting the new regional police chief to reporters, Interior Minister Vladimir Naumov then called him the head of the regional hockey federation, which the journalists took as a joke of the minister, who had been elected president of the National Hockey Federation not long before. But General Naumov proved to have been serious.
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