Serdyukov Kaput?

The main military investigative department of the Investigative Committee opened five criminal cases on fraud in OJSC Oboronservis, controlled by the Ministry of Defense. On the eve of the former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense Evgenia Vasilyeva, a search was searched , more than three million rubles, antiques, several dozen paintings, a large number of jewelry and jewelry were seized. In addition, the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov himself was discovered in Vasilyeva’s apartment.

After that, the minister disappeared from the news field for a short while. At noon on Thursday, it turned out that Serdyukov ignored the government meeting, sending his deputy to him. Later it turned out that instead of a meeting with Medvedev, Serdyukov went to the residence of Vladimir Putin in Novo-Ogravo. The audience was short, Putin instructed Serdyukov "to ensure complete interaction with the investigation."

Experts told about whether the situation around Serdyukov will lead to his resignation.

Alexander Golts, military analyst

Serdyukov’s resignation is achieved by those who initiated this story. Who these people can be guessed to infinity, but this is clearly not Putin. For a number of reasons, this can be judged. Firstly, Serdyukov himself did not make a secret that he was ready to leave this position and consider his mission to be fulfilled. So Putin to start this all in order to fire him, there is no need. After his first words, Serdyukov would calmly put a resignation statement on the table. And exactly the opposite, Putin seems to not see another figure, except for Serdyukov, capable of completing military reform. Meanwhile, Serdyukov has a sufficient number of ill -wishers in the highest echelons of power, he man with a difficult character and managed to step on his favorite corns.

Vladislav Shurygin, military observer

Of course, now there are already all signs that the president is at least annoyed by this situation and is not satisfied with Serdyukov’s activity. The most important feature is an open powerful attack on the Minister of Defense. Usually, if we are talking about an official who they want to save, or whose value is recognized, such things happen quietly enough. Here, the go -ahead was given at the highest level, all the main channels lit it, and at the same time everyone perfectly understood that the go -ahead was given not just on Serdyukov’s subordinates, but on one of the people closest to him, even in personal terms, people. Recently, quite a lot is said that a woman mentioned in a report is quite close to him.

The second sign is a panic into which Serdyukov fell into. We see that for him it seemed absolutely unexpected. Throwing a meeting of the government, he already ran yesterday to see his cartridge, the president. Serdyukov always positioned himself as a person of Putin and on his behalf and carried out his activities. The fact that he was accepted for only 15 minutes says that he actually achieved nothing. Moreover, the comment that then sounded was, in my opinion, completely murderous for Serdyukov: the president ordered the minister to provide a investigation with full assistance. In fact, this can be translated as an order to drain everyone. And, above all, the drama is that he must drain people who are extremely close to him.

So these are quite serious indicators that Serdyukov’s positions in the internal Russian Table of Ranks were very shocked. So far, it is impossible to say this firmly, because for many years Serdyukov was one of the president’s people. Moreover, in a narrow circle, he repeatedly emphasized his merits to the president and what the president owes to him, for example, as part of the case with Khodorkovsky. But everything comes to an end, and, I think, the huge lawlessness that was generated by Serdyukov is generated in the field related to serving the army, and the result of the reform that everyone see can outweigh any bureaucratic relations.

Pavel Felgenhauer, independent military expert

Until the resignation is visible. If the matter really went to dismissal, then Putin would not have met him. Putin is not found with retirees. At all. Never. Not once in 12 years.