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 WARN WARNING, TOPICS DOMESTIC POLITICAL, INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL,
 MILITARY
 SERI SERIAL:    CEP20U1120800188
 COUN COUNTRY' RUSSIA
 SUBJ SUBJi      TAKE 1 OF 2--RUSSIAN ARMY LEADERSHIP TRAINING COURSE,
 APPOINTMENTS, OTHER EVENTS OUTLINED
 SOUR SOURCE,    MOSCOW MOSKOVSKIY KOMSOMOLETS IN RUSSIAN 16 NOV IB
 TEXT TEXTs
 [ARTICLE BY VIKTOR SOKIRKO:,"DISPOSITION OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY" --
 TAKEN FROM HTML VERSION OF SOURCE PROVIDED BY ISP]
 [FBIS TRANSLATED TEXT] GENERAL COURSE
 THE RUSSIAN TOP MILITARY LEADERSHIP MEETS ONCE A YEAR -- AT THE
 TRADITIONAL TRAINING COURSE CONDUCTED BY THE DEFENSE MINISTER.
 THIS IS A KIND OF SUMMARIZING AND AWARD-GIVING EVENT WHERE CURRENT
 MATTERS ARE DISCUSSED.   THE POWERFUL GENERALS, THINK TANK IS
 FORMED BY CHIEF COMMANDERS OF BRANCHES AND TYPES OF THE ARMED
 FORCES, CHIEFS OF THE MAIN AND, CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIONS, AND
 COMMANDERS OF DISTRICTS AND FLEETS.    IT IS ALSO ATTENDED BY THE
 MARSHAL IGORFSERGEYEVAANDIGENERALTANATOLIY KVASHIN, WILLACONDUCT,
 THE JOINT WORK THIS TIME.   MAYBE THEY WILL TRADITIONALLY HOLD
 SEPARATE DISCUSSIONS "IN SECTIONS?"
 A DISTINGUISHING FEATURE OF THE PRESENT COURSE, WHICH STARTED IN
 MOSCOW AND THEN CONTINUED IN TVER, IS THAT IT WILL EXAMINE REFORM
 PLANS FOR THE ARMY (A DECISION: TO REDUCE IT WAS MADE RECENTLY BY
 THE SECURITY COUNCIL AT ITS MEETING CHAIRED BY VLADIMIR PUTIN).
 THE ARMY WILL HAVE TO SHRINK BY 365,000 PEOPLE AND ALL GENERALS
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 DATE.JUL2112
 000779621
 WILL PROBABLY BE PULLING THE BLANKET TO THEIR OWN SIDE BECAUSE,NONE
 OF THEM FEELS LIKE SHRINKING.   THE MOST VEHEMENT DEBATE HILL
 CONCERN THE STRATEGIC MISSILE TROOPS [SMTI, WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE
 GENERAL STAFF'S PLANS, WILL HAVE TO BE "DRIED AND SHAKEN UP" AND
 DELEGATED TO THE AIR FORCE.    S'MT CHIEF COMMANDER VLADIMIR YAKOVLEV
 WILL NATURALLY MOUNT FEROCIOUS OPPOSITION.
 YET, NO SENSATIONS ARE EXPECTED AT THE CURRENT COURSE:   THE
 GENERALS HAVE ALREADY ACCUSTOMED THEMSELVES TO THE THOUGHT OF THE
 UPCOMING REDUCTION.
 THE COSSACK DANCE
 THE GROUP OF DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTERS HAS BEEN EXPANDED:
 PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN ISSUED AN EDICT APPOINTING MIKHAIL
 DMITRIYEV DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF ARMS EXPORTS.
 DMITRIYEV, A GENERAL FROM THE SVR [FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE],
 PREVIOUSLY HELD THE POST OF DEPUTY MINISTER OF INDUSTRY, SCIENCE,
 AND TECHNOLOGY.    THE 53-YEAR-OLD GENERAL, A MGIMO [MOSCOW STATE
 INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS] GRADUATE, WORKED MANY YEARS
 AS A FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER AND IS WIDELY CONSIDERED TO BE A
 TECHNOCRAT.    RUMOR HAS IT THAT HIS APPOINTMENT AT THE DEFENSE
 MINISTRY WAS LOBBIED BY PRIME MINISTER KASYANOV, AS A RESULT OF
 WHICH MIKHAIL DMITRIYEV'S CANDIDACY WAS FAVORED OVER THAT OF FIRST
 INDUSTRY DEPUTY MINISTER GRIGORIY RAPOTA (FORMER ROSVOORUZHENIYE
 HEAD), WHO WAS SUPPORTED BY SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY SERGEY
 IVANOV.
 DMITRIYEV'S FATE WAS FINALLY DECIDED BY PRESIDENT PUTIN, WHO
 RETAINED HIS CONTROL OVER ARMS TRADE AND KEPT DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
 ILYA KLEBANOV AND DEFENSE MINISTRY OFFICIALS AWAY FROM THIS
 SIGNIFICANT SECTOR   EVEN DURING THE CREATION OF THE HOLDING
 COMPANY ROSOBORONEKSPORT.   NOW, THE PRESIDENT SEEMS TO HAVE
 DETERMINED HIS POSITION ON THE CHIEF ARMS SPECIALIST, WHO COMES
 FROM THE SVR.
 THE BORDER ZONE
 GENERAL KONSTANTIN TOTSKIY, DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL BORDER SERVICE,
 WAS FORCED TO CHANGE HIS PLANS URGENTLY THIS WEEK.    INSTEAD OF A
 PRESIDENTIALSAIRPLANETFLYINGOOFFRTOAMONGOLIA.   THEECHIEFDBORDER
 SERVICEMAN DID NOT REPLACE THE CONVENIENT AND STRATEGICALLY
 IMPORTANT BALTIC REGION WITH TOE CALM MONGOLIA OF HIS OWN FREE
 WILL.   THE PRESIDENT, WHO FREQUENTLY TAKES GENERAL TOTSKIY ALONG
 ON HIS TRIPS TO THE RUSSIAN BORDER REGIONS, WANTED TO HAVE A
 CONSULTANT BORDER SERVICEMAN AROUND THIS TIME ALSO.   JUST IN CASE.
 INSTEAD OF KONSTANTIN TOTSKIY, HIS FIRST DEPUTY, COLONEL GENERAL
 ALEKSEY KOZHEVNIKOV, FLEW TO LITHUANIA.   NOBODY CANCELED THE
 MEETINGS WITH LITHUANIAN POWER OFFICIALS, BUT THE QUESTION IS
 WHETHER THE DOCUMENTS THAT WERE PLANNED TO BE SIGNED AND WHICH CAN
 ONLY BE SIGNED BY TOP OFFICIALS WILL ACTUALLY BE SIGNED?
 THE DEPARTURE
 AN UNUSUAL EMERGENCY SITUATION OCCURRED ON THE RUSSIAN-AZERBAIJANI
 BORDER IN DAGESTANs   THE BORDER WAS VIOLATED BY... A UFO.   AN
 UNIDENTIFIED TARGET WAS NOTICED OVER THE MOUNTAINS AT THE HEIGHT OF
 ABOUT 101 METERS AFTER MIDNIGHT.   THE BORDER SERVICEMEN WATCHED
 THE OBJECT, WHICH DID NOT RESEMBLE EITHER A ROCKET OR A PROJECTILE
 AND WHICH MIGHT HAVE FLOWN FROM THE CHECHEN SIDE, WHILE
 EYEWITNESSES WATCHED THREE BRIGHT FIRES AT A DISTANCE OF TWO METERS
 FROM EACH OTHER.
 ONE COULD THINK THAT THE BORDER DETACHMENT WAS IN, LET US SAY,
 INADEQUATE CONDITION AND COULD HAVE SEEN EVEN STRANGER THINGS IN
 THE NIGHT SKY (THE FAMOUS DERBENT COGNAC PLANT IS LOCATED
 NEARBY).    HOWEVER, THE UFO WAS ALSO NOTICED BY BORDER DETAILS FROM
 TWO POSTS ON THE SAME STRETCH NEAR THE SETTLEMENTS OF KAZMALYAR AND
 NOVYY FILYA IN MAGARAMKENTSKIYRAYON OF DAGESTAN.   STRANGELY,
 THEIR INFORMATION RAISED INTEREST OF THE RELEVANT SERVICES, WHICH
 SET OUT TO CHECK THIS FACT.   IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT THE UFO
 COULD HAVE BEEN A LIGHT-ENGINE AIRPLANE USED BY THE CHECHEN GUNMEN
 TO SHIP AMMUNITION ACROSS THE BORDER.   FLYING AT NIGHT IN THE RARE
 AIR AND WITH ITS ENGINE TURNED OFF, THE AIRPLANE COULD HAVE LOOKED
 LIKE A UFO TO THE VIGILANT BORDER SERVICEMEN.
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