Did not go for a smart

The Committee of the Council of the Federation of Defense and Security supported the decision of the First Deputy Head of the Committee Franz Klintsevich to withdraw from this post, Interfax reports . He announced the upcoming resignation on Monday, but refused to name her reasons.

Klintsevich remains a member of the committee. The candidacy of the Deputy Chairman of the Committee Alexander Rakitin, representing in the Upper House Karelia, was nominated for the vacant position. Before the appointment in the field, he led the FSB Office for the Western Military District. The members of the committee also supported this proposal. The final decision will be made on Wednesday at a meeting of the Council.

Clintsevich’s comments were dissatisfied with the Ministry of Defense and the process of deprivation of his position was launched from there, the source of Vedomosti said in the Council. The words of the deputy chairman of the Committee did not always reflect the official line, and sometimes they could bring harm, a source close to the leadership of the military department noted. At the same time, the post of Klintsevich gave his words in the eyes of foreigners an official weight.

So, on February 7, the senator said that the Syrian special forces are breaking through to the place of the fall of the Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in Idlib, the source gave an example. At this moment, the Russian and Turkish intelligence services jointly conducted the operation in order to receive the body of the deceased Major Roman Filipov.

One of the sources of RBC also noted that Klintsevich "spoke a lot of unnecessary, especially recently."

From 1999 to 2015, Klintsevich, Lieutenant Colonel of the Reserve, Chairman of the Board of the Russian Union of Veterans of Afghanistan, was a deputy of the State Duma. He was the deputy chairman of the committees on defense and on veterans, held the post of deputy head of the United Russia faction.

On December 28, 2014, Klintsevich said that he would ask the president to start supplying weapons to the DPR and LPR if the United States begins arms supplies to Ukraine.

In September 2015, Klintsevich by decree of the Governor of the Smolensk region Alexei Ostrovsky was appointed a member of the Federation Council. In the upper house, Klintsevich was immediately appointed deputy chairman of the Committee on Defense and Security.

In November 2016, Klintsevich said that Russia will aim its weapon, including nuclear , for any NATO objects that would consider threatening for itself, "wherever they are placed." This, according to the senator, will be a “tough and unequivocal answer” to “NATO aggressive actions, to the Alliance attempts to draw all new countries into its orbit”.