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Saturday, 9 May 2015

Putin shakes up military command shortly before Victory Day ceremonies

   In a major shakeup of  of the government and military as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree promoting six senior officers said on Thursday in the official portal of legal information.
   Of these six were Vladimir Benedict Andrew Kholzyakov were raised to the rank of lieutenant general. Oleg Makovetskii, Timur Trubienko, Oleg Chesnokov and Alexander Shulepov got promoted to major general.
   Also by presidential decree he dismissed nearly 20 generals. Among those let go was the lieutenant general of police, Sergey Lavrov(not the foreign minister), as well as the head of media relations in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Andrei Pilipchuk.
   The first deputy commander of the central regional military command, Vladimir Padalko, was also dismissed, according to the Gazeta.

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