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High-Level Corruption Up, Crime Down in Military
A little more news on the military crime and corruption front. Corruption is up at least 26 percent year-on-year for the first half of 2010. General military crime, however, is down more than 10...
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Fridinskiy vs. Serdyukov on Dedovshchina
Barracks violence in Russia has risen by at least 50 percent thus far in 2010; this isn’t exactly news since the Main Military Prosecutor announced the same thing back in July. But his comments on the...
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Khaki-Colored Narcomania
FSKN Chief Viktor Ivanov and Russia's Narco-Apocalypse On 2 December, Rossiyskaya gazeta covered a “coordinating conference” of the Federal Narcotics Control Service (FSKN) held the previous day in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Latest on GOZ Woes (Part II)
To review this week . . . Prime Minister Putin’s current deadline for completing GOZ contracts is August 31, but it’s unlikely to be met, even by loyal Deputy PM and OSK Board Chairman Igor Sechin....
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Cosmic Corruption
Sergey Fridinskiy Main Military Prosecutor Sergey Fridinskiy gave Interfaks an interview several weeks ago in which he described generally improved crime statistics in the Armed Forces. But he also...
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Defense News
Some Russian defense news from August 6, 7, and 8, 2012 . . . Sukhorukov’s Press Conference (photo: Mil.ru) Mil.ru provided a wrap on the First Deputy Defense Minister’s press-conference on GPV-2020....
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If That Was Cosmic . . .
If 2011′s corruption figures for the armed forces were cosmic, what are 2012′s? We usually get various prosecutors’ reports about this time. This year’s no different. Newsru.com picked up some of Main...
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