The Minister of Defense expressed dissatisfaction with the presence of an Orthodox church at the training ground of the Airborne Forces training center near Ryazan
On September 30, 2010, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, while visiting the Seltsy training center of the Ryazan Higher Command School of the Airborne Forces, scolded the head of the school, Andrei Krasov, for the fact that the Orthodox Church of Elijah the Prophet is located on the training ground of the center. At the same time, according to media reports, the minister used obscene insults.