The infamous chief of staff of the Central Military District, General Surovikin removed from office
Lieutenant-General Sergei Surovikin is no longer the chief of staff of the Central Military District. In view of the numerous scandals with which the general managed to surround himself, at the headquarters of the Central Military District they decided to make a backstage castling, the New Region correspondent reports. According to agency sources in military circles, this was a personal condition of the district commander Vladimir Chirkin.The chief of staff of the Central Military District, Lieutenant General Sergei Surovikin no longer holds this position. About this "New Region" said a high-ranking source in the district headquarters. At present, General Surovikin has been transferred to the disposal of Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. “This was done specifically to make Surovikin easier to appoint as head of the military police, the source added,“ New Region ”. He also confirmed that since last year, as the district headquarters, Surovikin was issued by order of the district commander Vladimir Chirkin on a long trip. All this time Surovikin was engaged in preparatory activities to create a military police.
It is known that the acting chief of staff of the Central Military District is currently appointed Major General Sergei Chuvakin. As for the future fate of Surovikin, he will become the chief military gendarme, the correspondent of "New Region" reports. True, in military circles we are confident that his appointment will take place after the inauguration of the new Russian President Vladimir Putin, which is scheduled for May 7. The fact is that only the head of state, who is also the commander-in-chief, can appoint the head of the military police.
Meanwhile, the fact that all movements of General Surovikin on the career ladder are performed behind the scenes cannot fail to attract attention. So the last reshuffle with the transfer to Serdyukov’s personal reserve turned out to be an unspoken one. This has its own explanation - during his service in the Urals, Lieutenant-General Surovikin became a defendant in many scandals. Mainly, they were connected with the business of his spouse - Anna Surovikina. "For this reason, the district commander Chirkin decided in his time that everything connected with Surovikin should be secret and not be included in the media," the agency’s sources in military circles confirm.
A similar decision was made to transfer Surovikin to an “illegal position” a little later in the Ministry of Defense, the correspondent of the New Region notes. First, the journalists found out what exactly Surovikin, being acting commander of the Taman division, led Tanks to Moscow during the putsch GKChP. It was his combat vehicles that crushed Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov in the tunnel on the Garden Ring of the future Heroes of Russia. Then, "compromising evidence" on Sergei Surovikin Serdyukov provided the military prosecutor. The head of the Ministry of Defense was informed in detail that the future chief of the military police was a defendant in the criminal case. All this made the military department less mention the name of the scandalous general “in vain”.
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