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Latest on Sulim and Premium Pay Extortion
The Tambov military garrison prosecutor has told Kommersant charges have been lodged against Sergey Sidorenko, deputy commander of a unit at the elite Lipetsk pilot training center. Sidorenko and others allegedly extorted 3 million rubles of premium pay from other officers at Lipetsk since the … Continue reading
Stories of the Year
RIA Novosti has its list of the main military events of 2012. No surprise number 1 is the Oboronservis scandal, the fall of former Defense Minister Serdyukov, and appointment of successor Sergey Shoygu. The rest: 16 accidents in munition destruction leaving 12 dead and 23 injured. … Continue reading
Defense News
Some Russian defense news from August 6, 7, and 8, 2012 . . . Mil.ru provided a wrap on the First Deputy Defense Minister’s press-conference on GPV-2020. Sukhorukov ”particularly turned attention” to media reports that the program’s funding will be cut. … Continue reading
Posted in Air Forces, Crime and Corruption, Force Modernization, Law, Order, and Discipline
Tagged AFAR, Aleksandr Sukhorukov, BMD-4M, Dedovshchina, Drones, GOZ, GOZ-2012, GPV 2020, Israel, Makayev, PAK FA, Sergey Fridinskiy, Su-35S, Sukhoy, T-50, T-50-3, Tikhomirov, UAVs
Face Recce
Last Wednesday afternoon, President Putin put his Supreme Glavk hat back on and met for a bit with uniformed military leaders on Armed Forces development, manning, training, and social support issues. The nine-minute video of Putin’s introductory remarks provides a chance … Continue reading
The Military’s Most Authoritative
Russkiy reporter published its 2011 list of the 100 “most authoritative” Russian people — ten each in society, business, bureaucracy, academe, education, medicine, law, military, culture, and sports. Avtoritetnyy, of course, isn’t just a cognate; it can mean influential, competent, trusted, reputable, respected, … Continue reading
Some Cracks in Air Forces’ Stonewall (Part II)
Returning to the latest on Igor Sulim . . . in a late July Nezavisimoye voyennoye obozreniye article, Oleg Vladykin summarized the GVP’s various recent press releases about rising crime in the Armed Forces. He provided insight into how senior officers view Sulim … Continue reading
Posted in Air Forces, Crime and Corruption, Officer Corps, Serdyukov's Reforms
Tagged Aleksandr Kharchevskiy, Glavkomat, GVP, Igor Sulim, Lipetsk, Pay, Premium Pay, Sergey Fridinskiy, VVS
Some Cracks in Air Forces’ Stonewall (Part I)
An update on the Igor Sulim case . . . on Tuesday, Moskovskiy komsomolets’ Olga Bozhyeva reported there may finally be some pressure on the alleged extortionists. Colonel Kovalskiy and one Captain Artemyev decided (in fine Russian tradition) to go … Continue reading
Cadre Changes
In decrees published today, President Medvedev accepted the retirement of EW Directorate Chief, General-Major Oleg Ivanov. Part of the “troyka” of retiring generals, he reportedly requested retirement for health reasons. No official documents yet on the other two (Andrey Tretyak and Sergey Skokov). The … Continue reading
Posted in Military Leadership
Tagged Cadre, Decree, Igor Sulim, Oleg Ivanov, Personnel, Ukaz, Viktor Bondarev
Soviet Fathers and Russian Sons
The story of Igor Sulim and the premium pay scandal is like the 19th century one about Russian society’s generation gap. With liberals and nihilists reversed. In Sulim’s story, the fathers are old senior and mid-grade officers who span Soviet and Russian worlds. They have no problem taking … Continue reading
Lipetsk Scandal Update
Let’s update the action. It’s rare when a single incident like Lipetsk is deemed serious enough to warrant a quick public response. But that’s what’s happening. Defense Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov has ordered checks for corruption in large formations, formations, and units [i.e. army-level down]. His press-service says they’ll look specifically … Continue reading
Posted in Air Forces, Crime and Corruption, Law, Order, and Discipline, Officer Corps, Serdyukov's Reforms
Tagged FSB, osobisty, Premium Pay, Prosecutors, RVSN
