“The purge of the top generals of the Russian Defense Ministry continues:
1. Minister of Defense, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu – removed from office;
2. First Deputy Minister of Defense Ruslan Tsalikov – removed from office;
3. Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov (construction) – arrested;
4. Deputy Minister of Defense, Colonel General Yuriy Sadovenko (Department of Defense apparatus) – removed from office;
5. Deputy Minister of Defense Tatyana Shevtsova (finances) – removed from office;
6. Deputy Minister of Defense, Army General Nikolai Pankov (State Secretary) – removed from office;
7. Deputy Minister of Defense, General of the Army Pavel Popov (innovative research) – arrested;
8. Deputy Minister of Defense, General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov (logistics) – arrested;
9. Chief of the Main Personnel Directorate, Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov – arrested;
10. Chief of the Main Communications Directorate, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin – arrested;
11. Head of the Department for Providing State Defense Orders, Vladimir Verteletsky – arrested;
12. Press Secretary of the Ministry of Defense Rossiyana Markovskaya – removed from her post;
13. Assistant to the Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Alexander Burachenok – removed from office;
14. General Director of the Military Construction Company Andrei Belkov – arrested;
15. Director of the Department of Property Relations Mikhail Sapunov – removed from office;
16. General Director of Voentorg Vladimir Pavlov – arrested;
17. Director of the Patriot Park Vyacheslav Akhmedov – arrested;
18. Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Innovative Development, Major General Vladimir Shesterov – arrested;
19. Major General Valery Muminjanov – arrested.” (Aussie Cossack)
Is this a turf war?
Are Russian nationalists gaining the upper hand – friends of Preghozin? Or are Russian traitors coming out into the open?
Russian military is corrupt, it has to be said, but what’s the story?
There is a long tradition in Russia of successful generals being sidelined once their work is done, to stop tem becoming too powerful. Georgi Zhukov a classic example.
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I don’t know about all these people, but Sergey Shoigu, who isn’t a military man, now has a very high-level job as advisor to the President. The post is reckoned to be higher than that of Defence Secretary.