Deputy Defense Minister Nikolay Makarov is the new chief of the RF Armed Forces General Staff.
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Baluevsky Resigned from General Staff
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev endorsed the resignation of the RF Armed Forces General Staff Chief Yuri Baluevsky. The new chief is now the First Deputy Defense Minister Nikolay Makarov.
Yuri Baluevsky has been appointed deputy secretary at the RF Security Council, which today’s chief is ex-director of FSB Nikolay Patrushev. President Dmitry Medvedev announced Baluevsky’s resignation and Makarov’s appointment during the meeting with Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov held in the Kremlin on Tuesday. Both Baluevsky and Makarov attended the event, Vesti TV Channel, RIA Novosti reported.
Russia’s media long speculated about the disagreements of Yuri Baluevsky, who headed the RF General Staff July 19, 2004, and civil Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, saying that Baluevsky filed the resignation already, but the general always rejected the allegations as rumors.
Medvedev thanked Baluevsky for service and decorated him with the Order of Merit to Motherland.
Makarov had been the deputy defense minister in charge of the armaments service at the RF Armed Forces before the appointment.
It has recently emerged that Baluevsky wasn’t added to the list of candidates to the BODs of defense enterprises, where he had sat for lots of years. He was out of the delegation that negotiated on missile defense issues with the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
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