Vladimir Putin Fires Russian Military Generals
Source: Newsweek
By Cristina Maza, 8 hrs. ago.
Russian President Vladimir Putin fired 15 Russian generals on Tuesday as the country prepares to launch its biggest war games in over four decades. Among those fired were Vladlen Aksenov, the deputy minister of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, and Sergei Koryuchin, head of federal penitentiary services in Russias Omsk region.
Generals in Russia are often fired in groups, experts note. Eleven generals were fired in April 2018, and other groups were let go in 2016 and 2017. During previous rounds of dismissals, some officials were arrested for corruption, and this weeks case was no different. At least one general, the Minister of Emergency Situations in Russias Tomsk region, Mikhail Begun, was also apprehended on corruption charges for allegedly taking bribes. Experts say they suspect more arrests could soon be carried out.
The reasons why generals are fired vary and in years past they've mixed the reasons why any particular guy is let go: lost a bureaucratic struggle; the leadership doesn't want a guy to become too ensconced in a position and turn it into a fiefdom; actual policy differences; or, unapproved corruption, Yuval Weber, a Russia expert at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School and DMGS-Kennan Institute Fellow at the Wilson Center, told Newsweek. On the last point, no one at the top is clean but sometimes an official can go too far. When someone loses a bureaucratic struggle, evidence of corruption can also be found, so it's hard to tell the story or its causality without digging in deeper.
The military in Russia generally wields significant political influence. According to a recent report by Transparency International Russia, around 20 percent of Russias State Duma, the Russian legislative body, simultaneously act as lobbyists for the military and other law enforcement. Many lawmakers also have deep connections to the Russian intelligence services and interior ministry...More...
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"The corruption in Russia is above and beyond what a normal, Western informed observer can even imagine. An oversized, all-powerful state, that is the root cause of corruption. Shuffling generals is like rearranging chairs on the Titanic," Ariel Cohen, a Russia expert and senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council, told Newsweek.
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truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)Practicing to be Pootie-poot-poot.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)as opposed to "approved corruption" aka "official corruption"
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)He bought better ink pens than tRump had and didn't share with Donny........
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)for his mal-administration. Hey, why not? They certainly couldn't be any worse that the "best people" he hired to completely destroy our system of government thus far. Plus he'd get some props from Putin for getting them out of his country.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)He's scared one or more will become able to rise up against him.
Warren_Pointe
(328 posts)they wouldn't drink the Novichok.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)When youre fired there, you're literally FIRED; from a cannon or BY a cannon
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)Since everyone is corrupt, right up to the President, who has literally stolen huge fortunes from other wealthy oligarchs he doesn't see eye to eye with. I have a brother in law that has come from one of the old Soviet southern states. It is a total corrupted society, from local cops right up. He told of a story about how he was frustrated when he tried to get his driving license. He kept getting failed, until someone finally told him what to do. Put x amount of money in an envelope and slip it into the mailbox of a certain official in charge of licenses. And presto! he passed with flying colours the next time.
It is so ingrained into society. So Putin always has some bribery or other ACTUAL corruption he can readily use against political foes and enemies, anytime he wants.