Has the “finale” of Serdyukov’s “case” been indicated?

As reported by the media and shown on television, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin himself, who is also the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, publicly spoke about the fate of the civilian ex-Minister of Defense Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov. This happened at a press conference following negotiations with Angela Merkel in the Kremlin.

The President of the Russian Federation admitted to journalists that he regrets the scandals surrounding the Ministry of Defense. Putin removed Serdyukov because doubts arose about his ability as a minister to manage processes related to property management.

“But neither the investigation nor the court make any claims against Serdyukov personally,” said V.V. Putin. “A man is innocent until the court finds him guilty.”

Just one fact from the life of ex-Minister Serdyukov’s inner circle. Serdyukov’s sister owns three elite Moscow and three St. Petersburg apartments. The market value of Puzikova’s apartments alone ranges from 500 to 700 million rubles.

At the same time, the official income of Serdyukov’s sister for 2011 is 240 thousand rubles, i.e. 20 thousand rubles per month! In the state register of entrepreneurs, Puzikova appears as a “vegetable grower”; she does not have a single agricultural asset, but she owns three companies related to the auto business. Galina's husband Valery Puzikov, who once headed the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "St. Petersburg Engineering and Technical Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense" and now specializes in multi-story parking lots, is richer than his wife. Last year, he declared more than 80 million rubles in income, owns 10 apartments in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Anapa, 12 land plots, five garages, four residential buildings, two dozen real estate properties in the Leningrad region, 18 cars (including and retro) and one boat. Indeed, well, what does her brother, the great ex-reformer of the RF Armed Forces Anatoly Eduardovich, have to do with it?!

Speaking about rumors that Serdyukov has been appointed as an adviser to the head of Russian Technologies, Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin also denied them. However, he believes that the ex-minister can still get a good position.

“What, he shouldn’t work anywhere now?” - said V.V. Putin, explaining that the work of an adviser is an expert one and is not related to the management of a team or property.

“He doesn’t work anywhere yet,” Putin added. “But if he works somewhere and we interfere, it’s wrong. We’re not in 1937!”

Indeed, we are not in the year 37 or the years of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, after all, but we are building a bright capitalist future for individual family clans. Former ex-minister Serdyukov is guaranteed the right to capitalist labor, and even better, state administrative labor as a top manager and “servant of the people”! It can be assumed that Anatoly Eduardovich has already received an indulgence at the highest level about his non-involvement in all sorts of embezzlement affairs of OJSC Oboronservis, controlled by the Ministry of Defense. Indeed, what does ex-minister Anatoly Eduardovich have to do with it?!

Yes, and the Head of the Government of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, even from distant Vietnam, sent signals to Moscow that he respects Anatoly Eduardovich and considers him an “effective” Minister of Defense.

“This was manifested in the course of the reforms that he carried out in the Armed Forces,” Medvedev told reporters, commenting on his resignation. “Not all decisions were made easily, not all decisions were carried out without errors, but serious reforms are not carried out in any other way.”

Indeed, our political elite is not trying to carry them out differently. This craving for “mistakes in the course of reforms” was laid down by the founder of “democratic” reforms in Russia, Boris Yeltsin, his political regime and the craving to destroy everything old in his path. We don’t know how to do it any other way... alas!

He emphasized that under ex-minister Serdyukov, the army became more professional. “We don’t need a Soviet-style army. We need an army that has ultra-modern weapons and nuclear deterrent forces,” the prime minister said.

According to the media, according to the Prime Minister, Serdyukov’s professionalism was also evident during the operation to force Georgia to peace in August 2008, which, as Medvedev emphasized, “from a military point of view was carried out absolutely successfully,” and as a result correct conclusions were drawn about the need for further modernization of the Armed Forces. “As for the investigation of the case, the investigation must be completed, and the court must put an end to it,” the prime minister said.

It should also be especially noted that the Head of the Government of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, has no personal claims against the former Minister of Defense Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov.

“I personally had no complaints against Anatoly Serdyukov,” the Russian Prime Minister told reporters.

I remember an episode when, in early June, Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, despite criticism of Serdyukov, spoke rather flatteringly about him, emphasizing that over the past few years Anatoly Eduardovich has done a lot to reform the department.

“I believe that Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, no matter what they say and no matter how they criticize him, is a successful minister, and over the past four to five years, in terms of reforming the system of the Ministry of Defense, he has done as much as anyone else before him,” said D.A. Medvedev on Channel One's "Posner" program, which was broadcast to the Far East.

I would not be surprised that, like the “reformer of the USSR” Gorbachev, the (for now) retired minister Serdyukov may be nominated for a high government award for his bold steps to “reform and modernize” the RF Armed Forces.

Probably, special mention will be made of the “reforms” of dressing the personnel of the Russian Armed Forces in uniforms from Yudashkin or the “innovative” disposal of ammunition by accidentally blowing up military warehouses.

So the great “reformer” of the RF Armed Forces A.E. is idle and idle. Serdyukov will not remain, he will still have time to work for himself, and for his family, and for the government...