On May 27, 2019, Oleg Govorun, former Head of the Directorate for Cross Border Cooperation was appointed as Deputy Director at DOM.RF. Govorun left directorate in April. In 2013-2019 he was curator to Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region.

On April 17, 2019, Aleksey Filatov, under the Directive of the President of the Russian Federation, was appointed on the position of the Head of the Directorate of the Cross-Border Cooperation, previously occupying position of the Deputy to Head of the same Directorate. Under the same Directive Oleg Govorun, Head of the Directorate, resigned. His resignation was announced on April 4. Not much information is available in open sources about Filatov, according to existing information, we might presume, that he knows Tskhinvali Region well.

Head of the Directorate for Cross-Border Cooperation of the Russian Federation Oleg Govorun resigns. According to the media of Russia, sources close to the Kremlin state that he "resigns from Kremlin due to family circumstances. The Directorate another employee will occupy his position".