Alignment - to the Prosecutor General's Office. Military aces pilots leave the army en masse

The chief military prosecutor of Russia, Sergei Fridinsky, has submitted a letter of resignation. This information was confirmed to RIA Novosti by Viktor Ozerov, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security.

"The Federation Council received a statement from Sergei Fridinsky with a request to release him from his post in connection with retirement due to seniority," the agency quotes Ozerov as saying.

Earlier there was information that Fridinsky submitted a personal application with a corresponding request.

The resignation of the chief military prosecutor in the upper house of the Federal Assembly will be considered on Wednesday, April 26, and before that, on April 25, this decision will be subject to preliminary discussion in the committees on constitutional legislation and defense and security. According to RIA Novosti, the preliminary discussion will be held behind closed doors.

It is currently unknown who will replace Fridinsky at the post. The further fate of the military prosecutor is also unclear. According to an Interfax source, in the near future Fridinsky may not be retired at all, but in the post of Deputy Minister of Justice.

The appointment and dismissal of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and his deputies, including the Chief Military Prosecutor, according to the Constitution of Russia, is under the jurisdiction of the Federation Council.

It was emphasized here that no ideas have been received about the appointment of the chief military prosecutor so far.

Fridinsky has held the post of Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chief Military Prosecutor since July 2006, before that he worked as Deputy Prosecutor General for six years.

Sergei Fridinsky was born on June 2, 1958 in the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara). In 1980 he graduated from the military law faculty of the Military Institute of the USSR Ministry of Defense and received a law degree.

After graduation, he was sent to serve in the Krasnoyarsk garrison of the Siberian military district. Here Fridinsky worked his way up from an investigator to a senior assistant to the military prosecutor, after which he managed to serve in Novosibirsk. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he held the position of military prosecutor of the Krasnoyarsk garrison of the Siberian military district. In the 1990s, he held high military posts in the Trans-Baikal and North Caucasian military districts.

In 1999, Fridinsky sued the journalist of the newspaper "Military Bulletin of the South of Russia" - Lt. Col. Alexander Tolmachev. The journalist's article cited data that was interpreted as abuse of office. Then the article said that Fridinsky allegedly used his position in the extraordinary receipt of two apartments in the center of Rostov-on-Don. At that time, Fridinsky served as the military prosecutor of the North Caucasian Military District, whose leadership was stationed in Rostov-on-Don.

In May 1999, the judges decided that the actions of the journalist should be qualified as a bona fide delusion, so Fridinsky was denied compensation.

Since 2000, he has been appointed Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ustinov. In his new position, Fridinsky oversaw the issues of the Southern Federal District:

led the investigation of terrorist attacks in the hostel of the Chelyabinsk UVD in Argun in 2000, at parades on May 9, 2002 in the Dagestan Kaspiysk and on May 9, 2004 in Grozny. In the latest terrorist attack, President of the Chechen Republic Akhmat Kadyrov was killed.

In addition, in 2003, he was investigating the case against the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kalmykia, Timofei Sasykov, who was dismissed from office for various violations, and also refused to obey the orders of the then Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov.

In 2004 he moved to Moscow, where he took up the issues of adoption of Russian orphans by foreign citizens, as well as the general problems of homelessness and neglect. He came up with the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating labor schools for such children. In 2006, on his initiative, a large-scale wave of inspections in schools took place in Russia, during which various violations were revealed, about which submissions were made at that time to the Ministers of Education Andrei Fursenko and Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov.

In July 2006, the Federation Council approved Fridinsky's candidacy for the post of Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation - Chief Military Prosecutor.

Experts noted that with the arrival of Fridinsky to this position, the conflict between the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Defense ended.

Fridinsky was awarded the Orders of Merit for the Fatherland of the third degree, For Military Merit, Honor, For Military Valor of the first and second degrees and other awards.

On June 28, the Federation Council appointed Valery Petrov, the prosecutor of the Republic of Buryatia, as the chief military prosecutor of Russia. Talks that Petrov would take this position began immediately after the resignation of the former prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky, who retired at the end of April. In Buryatia, this news caused jubilation. And not because another influential person from a distant national republic will appear in Moscow. It's just that a lot of people in Buryatia are ready to celebrate Petrov's departure - no matter where.

Valery Petrov

Valery Petrov headed the republican prosecutor's office in 2006 and, according to Novaya's sources in the government structures of Buryatia, over the years he has become the most influential person in the republic. Due to the gentleness of the then head of Buryatia, Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, Petrov was able to concentrate in his hands the levers of influence on all branches of government. As his enemies in the republic say, with the help of compromising evidence and the initiation of criminal cases (or the threat of initiation), he allegedly controlled appointments and resignations, the passage of money allocated for federal projects through the administrative resource allegedly influenced the election result and put pressure on the media.

Petrov is a native of the Irkutsk Region, like the current Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. Publicly, Petrov never mentioned his relationship with Chaika, but, according to Novaya's sources, they have developed a personal relationship since Chaika headed the prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region. Petrov attended family events of the Prosecutor General, he is familiar with his children.

According to political scientist Yevgeny Malygin, Petrov's transfer to Moscow was planned long ago. The prosecutor was offered various options, including the position of Deputy Chaika and the head of the personnel department of the General Prosecutor's Office, but the appointment was postponed many times. As our sources suggest, either Petrov made himself influential enemies outside the republic, or the position of Chaika himself in the position of prosecutor general did not allow him to influence the appointment.

However, the position of military prosecutor was not chosen by chance: “The business of Chaika’s son is connected with military government orders, and, perhaps, he needs a person who would not create problems with this business,” suggested a Novaya’s source in the prosecutor’s office. "The past military prosecutor in this sense did not suit everyone."

There is one more factor. In February, a new acting head Alexei Tsydenov, a young technocrat appointed by the Kremlin specifically for the September 2017 gubernatorial elections, came to Buryatia. As told to "Novaya" sources in the republic itself ( see no. 67), allegedly accustomed to absolute power, the prosecutor first of all gave the interim list of people who supposedly needed to be included in the new government. Tsydenov refused. Petrov was surprised and began to press. Tsydenov's team decided to make the conflict public and applied for a rally. All local media wrote about the rally, Znak.com published an article: "The new acting head of Buryatia has faced an influential prosecutor."

“Calls began to the editors with demands to remove the texts,” says a source to “Novaya”. - They always obeyed, but here they refused. Petrov got scared and called Chaika. But it was Easter, the Seagull flew to Jerusalem and could not help. Petrov panicked. "

As employees of the Buryat prosecutor's office say, the prosecutor did not sleep on the night after the announcement of the rally. Together with those close to him, he sat in the prosecutor's office, trying to understand who is campaigning against him and what to do if it means resignation.

The rally did not take place, but the publicity worked: “Petrov received a call from the presidential administration and said: stop interfering in politics,” a source tells Novaya.

In the opinion of our interlocutors, the Russian presidential administration is interested in Petrov leaving the republic and not interfering with the work of the new head of Tsydenov. Perhaps a high appointment - ransom for Petrov. The decision on him was taken for a long time and, apparently, painful for all parties - it is known that Petrov did not agree immediately. In early June, he told the Novaya Gazeta correspondent that he did not know about his transfer to the military prosecutor's office and did not plan to move to Moscow.

Petrov had enough enemies in addition to the new head Alexei Tsydenov. In recent years, he had a serious conflict with the mayor of Ulan-Ude, Alexander Golkov. In January, the former head of the FSB of the Vladimir region, Igor Nikolaev, was transferred to the post of the head of the FSB of Buryatia - probably on purpose to limit the power of the prosecutor before the appointment of Tsydenov (the former head of the FSB and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Oleg Kudinov were appointed on the recommendation of the prosecutor, the head of the Investigative Committee of the Republic Vyacheslav Sukhorukov - also a native of the prosecutor's office). “We lived normally here,” says a Novaya's source in the special services. - And then a new FSB officer came, and Petrov did not find a common language with him. In May, a high-ranking FSB officer from Moscow came to the republic behind the scenes. Petrov got scared that he had come to send him to retirement, even called Chaika in a panic. But it turned out that he came on completely different business. "

The Federation Council on June 28 will approve the candidacy of the new Chief Military Prosecutor of Russia. It will be the prosecutor of the Republic of Buryatia, Valery Petrov, whose candidacy was proposed to the Upper House of Parliament by President Vladimir Putin on Monday. Experts believe that the fact that a civilian rather than a military representative of justice is appointed to this post will not affect the specifics of his activities, the main criterion for assessing which is professionalism and adherence to the letter of the law.

Until April of this year, the chief military prosecutor of Russia was Colonel General Sergei Fridinsky, who served in this post for two years. Officially, his resignation is associated with retirement: in June he turned 59 years old. Unofficially, they were not very satisfied with his work in the law enforcement system. This is evidenced by the fact that his successor in this post will be the Prosecutor of the Republic of Buryatia, State Counselor of Justice of the 2nd class Valery Petrov (born in 1947).

Petrov headed the prosecutor's office of Buryatia since November 2006, before that for 8 years he worked as an assistant to the prosecutor of the republic. In the period from 1992 to 1998, he was the head of the personnel department of the Buryat prosecutor's office, and earlier for five years he served as the prosecutor of the Ivolginsky district of Buryatia.

It was expected that Petrov's candidacy would be considered at a meeting of the Federation Council on June 14. However, at that time, the documents were not received by the Upper House.

The prosecutor's office of the Republic of Buryatia refrained from commenting on the new position of Petrov.

“Contact the Prosecutor General's Office or the Presidential Administration,” Yulia Pavlova, senior assistant prosecutor for media relations, told the Daily Storm.

A feature of Petrov's appointment will be the fact that he is not a serviceman, unlike his predecessors in this post. However, experts do not consider this a big disadvantage.

“The position of the prosecutor is, first of all, a powerful punishing sword. This person will be in uniform or not - I do not see much difference. Although there is such a nuance: we already had a civilian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, he broke so much firewood that it caused a sharp rejection among the military. Therefore, there will be some fear, and it is not difficult to assume, ”says Ivan Konovalov, director of the Center for Strategic Conjuncture.

The head of the Expert Council on Defense under the State Duma, Candidate of Military Sciences Boris Usvyatsov believes that the main criteria for the appointment of a new military prosecutor will be the professionalism and confidence in his work as the Russian prosecutor general.

“The Chief Military Prosecutor by his position is the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. Therefore, this position can be replaced by the civil service. Sergei Fridinsky, who held this post earlier, was a colonel-general of justice, equated to a real state adviser of the first class. For the prosecutor, it doesn't matter what epaulettes he wears. If you paid attention, in the Ministry of Defense many generals wear white shoulder straps because they have never served anywhere. But in the opinion of the Minister of Defense, they perform their duties successfully and suit him, ”the expert explains.

After the tragic incident with their combat brother-in-arms, Aviation Major Adilbek ISKAKOV (pictured), who was sentenced to 4 years in prison after being ejected from an old Su-27 fighter that lost control, the pilots write letters of resignation.

There will soon be no one to spin aerobatics at parades and demonstrations. According to the pilots who remained in the ranks, there is no need to say anything about the highest combat readiness of the aviation units.

In connection with the tangible outflow of high-class pilots from the army, there is no one in the Kazakh army to teach young people and pass on their rich experience.

Defense Minister Colonel-General Saken ZHASUZAKOVat the "government hour" in the majilis of the parliament, he admitted that military pilots are leaving military units en masse: “Last year, 25 people left military aviation for civilian life,” he said, “leaving for Air Astana, SCAT, where the salary is 1.5 million tenge. Russian colleagues, the same pilots, receive 800 thousand rubles. Our first class pilots - 270 thousand tenge. It is necessary at least that he (military pilot. - Auth.) I received 450-500 thousand tenge. Therefore, the head of state instructed the government to double the pay for flight personnel. ".

How many reports on dismissal have been filed by military pilots since January of this year, the Minister of Defense did not specify. But what to do in such an explosive situation? Is it just the meager pay of the officers that the reason for their massive departure for free civilian bread?

No, the pilots say, the reason is not at all a small amount of money, but the poor training of the personnel of air bases. It is these circumstances that compel the "bison" to write their resignation reports.

Why do we, after difficult flights, sweaty and tired as savraskas, have to listen to the abuse of senior ground commanders about how we are all slobs? - confesses one of them. - Why didn’t they organize the work on cleaning the territory, didn’t uproot last year's grass, forgot what the OZK (combined arms protective kit), drill, weapons of mass destruction, regulations ... We are on duty for 14 hours together with technicians without days off and checkpoints.

Our families are always in rented apartments. We are constantly on the nerves due to the fact that the Su-27 has aged over 30 years of operation and can fail in flight.

Their resource ended a long time ago, and we keep flying and flying, squeezing all the juices out of them and ourselves. Why do few of the current military leaders know about our urgent flight and everyday problems ?! And he does not take any measures.

But verification commissions from the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff often work for you. And they shake thoroughly, as far as I know.

The fact of the matter is that they shake, but what is the use of it? What's the use? Flight training, such as it used to be, is not in sight. Although the training system has hardly changed since the collapse of the USSR, it is not allowed to work. The commission must be competent on all issues and one - at the end of the yearinstead of 300 as it is now.

Pilot officers are mired in all kinds of reports, worthless papers, reports, extracts.

They forgot that without powerful aviation and well-trained pilots, success in any battle will never be achieved. We have no normal teachers left in aviation.Competent, experienced, with basic knowledge and practice. All experienced in civilian life for a long time.

They wear white shirts, they don't sweat, they earn good money there, they support their families, raise their children.

Following the majors and lieutenant colonels, disillusioned with military service, young lieutenants will also be drawn to free bread. This is an axiom. They do not value their service. The collapse will come if it has not already come. This is real sabotage and systematic collapse of the entire flight system..

We do not understand why the competent authorities do not pay attention to this, and the prosecutors and judges attack us as criminals?

- What did you tell the President, what was asked of him?

He asked to return me to the combat formation of military aviation. Wrote him the truth that healthy as a bull and that I can't imagine myself without flying... He assured that as a patriot of his homeland, as a sane person, healthy and fit for service in the army, he was ready to fulfill any order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief to protect the air lines of Kazakhstan.

As an officer of honor with experience in flight service, having undergone serious training in air combat day and night with a potential enemy, I cannot surrender to the mercy of the judges and humbly fold my wings.

What happened during the Su-27 flight has not been fully investigated, and I still draw the attention of all interested parties and individuals to to achieve the highest justice primarily in the interests of the country's security... As a pilot, it’s not my fault that an expensive fighter was lost.

According to the conclusion of the state commission, the plane crashed due to the fact that both engines stopped due to full depletion of fuel during the flight mission.

Why did this happen? This is what the investigating authorities and the court had to understand thoroughly. However, for some reason they approached this criminal case superficially.

The truth is somewhere near

Who is at the military base drained kerosene from combat fighters and, possibly, continues to drain it, is still unknown. The new investigator of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office, who arrived from Astana in connection with the newly opened circumstances of the criminal case, is determined. But will he succeed alone bring all the guilty persons to clean water and?

At the military base, many specialists of ground services, smelling the smell of burning, began to hastily resign from the army and transfer to other units. The former head of the air base was removed from his post and transferred to Aktau, then to Astana.

Former Commander-in-Chief of the SVO, Aviation Lieutenant General Nurlan Ormanbetovurgently "exiled" to Moscow. Specialists in fuels and lubricants, financiers, aircraft technicians retired in a hurry. Is the mopping-up at a military base taking place after a sensational criminal case?

As it should be, I accepted the report on the readiness of the aircraft for takeoff and took to the skies, being fully confident that the Su-27 was refueled according to all the rules, ”continues Adilbek Iskakov. - In the aircraft preparation log, all direction specialists and supervisors made the appropriate records of aircraft readiness for departure with sufficient fuel in the amount of 5,600 kilograms... None of the ground service specialists had any doubts about refueling the aircraft and the performance of other Su-27 systems.

I have not violated any flight instructions, not a single order, was guided strictly by the ISTR2-6 indicators, there were lights on it - four / one, and when the flight director asked for the rest, I told him - 4,400 kilograms, since the fuel metering unit had not yet entered into operation (it starts at 3,100-3,500 kilograms).

In the process of descent, there was a change in the speed of the aircraft's right engine, followed by a decrease to 0 and a simultaneous failure of the 2nd hydraulic system.

I immediately reported this to the flight director, who gave me the command for the third turn with a takeoff-landing course of 26 degrees. When making a U-turn, there was a change in the speed of the left engine and a drop in the pressure of the 1st hydraulic system. And again I reported everything to the flight director. He ordered an ejection.

At an altitude of 1,200-1,300 meters, having directed the plane away from the settlements that were near Taldykorgan, duplicating the command of the flight director on the radio station “I will catapult”, after the rudders (of the unguided fighter) became established, I left the plane.

I also honestly wrote about this to the President, telling him that after long trials my life was divided into before and after. Remaining free, that is, having received a suspended sentence of 4 years in court for what I did not commit, I am still deprived of the main thing - the opportunity to serve the Fatherland as honestly and faithfully as before.

Instead of an epilogue

The Minister of Defense honestly told the deputies about the current situation in military aviation during the "government hour" and informed the entire personnel of units and formations about the President's decision to double the pay for military pilots.

This, according to Saken Zhasuzakov, should stop the outflow of high-class pilots from the army.

Besides, equipping the SVO with modern Su-30 aircraftthe latest generation and a significant upgrade of the entire ground infrastructure will undoubtedly serve to increase the combat readiness of troops and training. The sky of Kazakhstan is in good hands!