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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 ...
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 ...
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 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.
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.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian security services detained one of Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu's deputies on suspicion of taking major bribes, the highest-profile corruption case since President ...
Great Purge. Great Purge. Part of the purges of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. People of Vinnytsia searching through the exhumed victims of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943. Location. Soviet Union, East Turkestan, Mongolian People's Republic. Date. 1936–1938.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian authorities have detained two U.S. nationals, including a serving U.S. soldier, in two separate cases, the Interior Ministry and Moscow's court service said on Tuesday.