Interfax: Shamanov will be dismissed in February

The commander of the Airborne Forces, Lieutenant General Vladimir Shamanov, may be dismissed in the reserve in February 2012 by length of service, if he is not awarded the next military rank of colonel general or the established service life was extended. As Interfax reports, a source in the Ministry of Defense reported this. “The leadership of the Ministry of Defense did not sign the idea of ​​the assignment of the next military rank, Colonel General. On February 15, Shamanov is 55 years old, and he may be dismissed in the reserve,” the agency’s interlocutor said, “since Lieutenant General serve up to 55 years.”

According to him, a formal reason for the deviation of the presentation of the assignment of the next military rank Shamanov was the fact that in his personal file there is a penalty "a warning about incomplete official compliance." "In the fall of 2009, the Minister of Defense for an attempt to use his official position for personal purposes announced to General Shamanov a warning about incomplete official compliance, and it has not yet been removed," the agency’s source said.

General Shamanov became famous after the war in Chechnya. In the republic, he is considered the most odious military leader. He was accused of cruel methods in relation to both the fought Chechens and the civilian population. After the war, Shamanov was elected the governor of the Ulyanovsk region, where Colonel Yuri Budanov, who killed the 18-year-old Chechenka Elsa Kungaeva, was serving a ten-year term. After the launch of the governor, Shamanov was first an adviser in the government, and then returned to the army and headed the Airborne Forces.

On October 7, 2010, Shamanov was warned about incomplete official compliance with the attempt to use his official position for personal purposes. The warning was issued according to the results of the audit of the information about the disposal of Shamanov to send special forces to the SporttEK enterprise. In September, "New Gazeta" published the decoding of telephone conversations of the general. From the records it followed that Shamanov sent special forces to protect the SporttEK plant, owned by the general’s son -in -law, to stop searches there. The general ordered his subordinates to detain the investigator in particularly important cases of the administration of the SCP in the Moscow region Oleg Tselipotkin.

Shamanov’s negotiations were recorded as part of an investigation into an attempt on the entrepreneur of the board of directors of the Shchelkovsky holding and a member of the political council of the United Russia branch Dmitry Barchenkova. According to Novaya Gazeta, “ordered” Barchenkova son -in -law Shamanova Alexey Khramushin. The publication writes that he leads the "Tatar" mafia group and is now on the international wanted list. Searches at the SpotTEK plant were carried out in connection with the same investigation. Khramushin, according to operational information, is hidden abroad, and Yuri Shamanov, the son of the commander of the Airborne Forces, acts in Russia.

In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Shamanov refused to say that he was associated with the SporttEK plant and an investigation into the attempt on Barchenkov. However, he said that his daughter was already not actually the wife of the criminal authority of Khramushin, "this issue remains legally." The general also promised to figure out “who and why gave the command to listen to” him and “merge all this in the media”. According to Shamanov, he has an assumption that the customers of the provocation "sit in Chechnya and in Moscow." Assistant to the Airborne Forces commander, Colonel Alexander Cherterny, said that by order of Shamanov, the paratroopers did not commit anything illegal. “We have nothing to recognize and have nothing to make excuses for,” the cheeler said.

In February 2005, the European Court of Human Rights recognized Shamanov responsible for the operation of the federal forces in the village of Katyr-Yurt in February 2000, which was characterized by the "massive use of weapons of indistinct action" and led to the death of civilians and violation of the right to life (Article 2 of the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms).

During this operation, federal forces inflicted massive blows on the village. The European court found that Shamanov did not take the necessary precautions when using heavy weapons in a populated area, which the Russian command declared the Security Zone. The court decision stated that "the use of such weapons in the populated area, not in wartime and without preliminary evacuation of civilians, cannot be correlated with the degree of responsibility expected from law enforcement in a democratic society."