The biggest suicide in history of Russia’s Armed Forces was committed yesterday, February 21, 2008. Gol.-Gen. Viktor Vlasov, in the background, shot himself in his office.
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The Flat Issue Solved in One Shot
The biggest suicide in the history of Russia’s Armed Forces was committed yesterday, February 21, 2008. Gol-Gen Viktor Vlasov shot himself in his office on the eve of the Motherland Defender Day that is celebrated in Russia February 23, 2006. Vlasov was the acting chief of the RF Defense Ministry’s Service for Troop Housing.
The Russian Prosecutor General Office launched a criminal investigation in the death of the top-ranked official. Although the detectives say that Vlasov had been driven to suicide, the case was opened on no definite count - Vlasov had had the hard-hitting talk with Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov a night before the suicide.
The exact content of that talk hasn’t been disclosed. But the general looked very depressed when he returned home after it. Today is not the best time for Defense Ministry’s Service for Troop Housing. The problems began in the wake of November meeting of military chiefs attended by President Vladimir Putin. The president lambasted the Service after Serdyukov reported that some 130,337 families of the military have no flats yet and it’s necessary to build 102,000 service flats by 2012.
"It is being decided whether to qualify the accident under Clause 110 of the Criminal Code (Driven to Suicide),” a source with Defense Ministry said on condition of anonymity. “The initial examination has revealed no criminal signs, but we will check all possible leads of the general’s death all the same.” Amid potential causes of the suicide are the family problems and the problems at work. The general left no death note that could shed light on his suicide.
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All the Article in Russian as of Feb. 22, 2008
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