diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 8fee8e571..283ad8660 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-Pavel Emelyanov <ovzxemul@gmail.com> (chief)
-Andrey Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
+Andrey Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> (chief)
 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
 Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
 Adrian Reber <areber@redhat.com>
 Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
 Radostin Stoyanov <rstoyanov@fedoraproject.org>
 Alexander Mikhalitsyn <alexander@mihalicyn.com>
+
+Pavel Emelyanov <ovzxemul@gmail.com> (retired)