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When one top defence official is arrested in Russia, that’s interesting.
When four senior defence figures are handcuffed in less than a month, that’s more than a pattern. It’s a purge.
The latest senior military man to be locked up is Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin, deputy chief of the army’s general staff and head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces.
Accused of large-scale bribe-taking, he’s been placed in pre-trial detention for two months.
The roll-call of Russian defence figures who have fallen from grace on corruption charges includes Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov and Lieutenant-General Yuri Kuznetsov, head of the defence ministry’s personnel directorate.
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