Listen to the king, father to soldiers

The chief military prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky resigned by length of service. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to a source in the Federation Council.

According to the source, the Soviet will consider this issue at the meeting on April 26. On the eve of April 25, committees on constitutional law and defense and security will pre -discuss it. The discussion will be held closed.

There have been no ideas about the appointment of a new chief military prosecutor to the Federation Council.

According to the Constitution, in the jurisdiction of the upper house of the parliament, the appointment and dismissal of the Prosecutor General and his deputies, including the chief military prosecutor.

Friedinsky was born in 1958 in Kuibyshev. In 1980 he graduated from the Military Faculty of Military Institute with a degree in Lawyer. The position of chief military prosecutor has been holding since 2006.

In September last year, Rosbalt reported that the main military prosecutor’s office will be liquidated from January 1, 2017. “It was considered that this is wrong when the main supervisory authority for compliance with the rule of law in the Armed Forces is simultaneously standing“ by contentment ”by the Ministry of Defense,” the source of the publication said. According to him, the question of the complete separation of the GVP and the Ministry of Defense rose in 2015, but then it was postponed for a while. Now, as the agency’s interlocutor stated, the final decision has been made.

However, the source of Interfax said that the main military prosecutor’s office is not eliminated, but only the procedure for its financing will be changed. “From January 1 of the next year, the Prosecutor General’s Office will reimburse the expenses of the Ministry of Defense for financing and material and technical support of the GVP,” the source noted. “No one is going to remove epaulets from military prosecutors.”

No changes in the subordination and the structure of the GVP occurred.