"Suffering from a serious illness": in Moscow died former deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Manilov

The reason for the death of the Colonel-General was a "serious illness",-said the head of the apparatus of the club of the commander of the Russian commander-in-chief, Mykola Deryabin, noting that the general died in a military hospital. Valery Manilov held the position of the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from September 1996 to June 2001.

Among other things, the Colonel General was engaged in information support for the Federal Forces during the Second Chechen War in the Republic. So, in 2000, Manilov stated that "Ukrainian nationalists" were fighting in Chechnya. He argued that he had prompt data on the penetration into the territory of Chechnya groups of mercenaries, in particular Ukrainian, who are already dressed in the Russian military camouflage form and provided by false documents of federal troops.

" Manilov stated that the dressed "Ukrainian nationalists will be sabotage and terrorist attacks in Chechnya. " And then it will be removed and transferred to foreign media as a documentary evidence of the atrocities of the Russian military. In addition, the General was convinced that Chechen fighters received assistance from the UAE and from the "nationalist organizations of Ukraine" - half a million dollars.

However, according to Manilov, in Chechnya at that time was full of mercenaries-Slavs: "Russians, Ukrainians, Estonians, Latvians . . . I say" Ukrainian mercenaries ", but that does not mean that it is a throw to the Ukrainian people. Appoints! " Manilov was born on January 10, 1939 in the Tulchin of the Vinnytsia region of the Ukrainian SSR. He studied at the Odessa Higher General Military Team School, then graduated from the Military-Political Academy and the Military Academy of the General Staff.

At the beginning of his career, Manilov worked in the newspaper "Krasna Star" and in the management of information of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. In 1993-1996 he held the position of Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia. In 1993 he held the position of press -secretary of the Commander -in -Chief of the United Armed CIS. The first deputy chief of the General Staff of Manilov was appointed in 1996, in this position he worked until 2001.

But even after that his career did not end. Manilov was appointed representative of the Administration of the Primorsky Territory in the Federation of the FSF Federation of the Russian Federation. He was the first deputy chairman of the Committee of the Federation for Defense and Security and a member of the Commission of the Federation Council for Information Policy. Manilov was a candidate of philosophical sciences, Doctor of Political Science and Academician of the Academy of Military Sciences.