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On May 14, 2024, Lieutenant General, Head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Yuri Kuznetsov [2] was arrested. On May 17, 2024, the court arrested Major General, former commander of the 58th Army Ivan Popov [4] and faces up to 10 years in prison for embezzlement amounting to more than 100 million rubles. [1] On ...
It’s a purge. The latest senior military man to be locked up is Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin, deputy chief of the army’s general staff and head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has detained the deputy head of the army's general staff, Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin, on suspicion of large-scale bribe-taking, Russian media reported on Thursday.
To some, the scale and depth of the latest purges recalls the graft probes in the early years of Xi’s tenure, which led to the downfall of multiple senior generals and their underlings. Xi has ...
The purge of the Red Army and Military Maritime Fleet removed three of five marshals (then equivalent to four-star generals), 13 of 15 army commanders (then equivalent to three-star generals), eight of nine admirals (the purge fell heavily on the Navy, who were suspected of exploiting their opportunities for foreign contacts), 50 of 57 army ...
The Great Purge of 1936–1938 in the Soviet Union can be roughly divided into four periods: [1] October 1936 - February 1937. Reforming the security organizations, adopting official plans for purging the elites. March 1937 - June 1937. Purging the Elites; The higher powers then started to cut off heads of the poor.
Wagner Group rebellion. On 23 June 2023, the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, engaged in a major uprising against the Government of Russia. It marked the climax of the Wagner Group–Ministry of Defense conflict, which had begun about six months earlier. Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who had been leading Wagner Group ...
The Pentagon has not seen a change to Russia's disposition of its strategic nuclear forces, it said on Monday, despite what it called "irresponsible rhetoric" from Moscow detailing plans for ...
v. t. e. Purges of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union ( Russian: "Чистка партийных рядов", chistka partiynykh ryadov, "cleansing of the party ranks") were Soviet political events, especially during the 1920s, [1] in which periodic reviews of members of the Communist Party were conducted by other members and the security ...
As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s "special military operation" continues its downward spiral in Ukraine, the future of Russian-occupied or dominated territories, beginning with Kaliningrad ...