Korotchenko was dismissed from the army for homosexuality. And he jumped out and jumped out. The Ministry of Defense stood up for Korotchenko

Igor Korotchenko, eager to become a deputy, presents himself as a reserve colonel, an expert in matters of the army and arms trade, as well as a member of the governing bodies of well-known public structures. Who is he really?

I would not write about Korotchenko - he is not my favorite character, but the young man, glowing with enthusiasm, thrust a leaflet into my hands right at the entrance, from which I learned with regret that I would see this figure on my ballot. I never thought that life in Tushino could throw up such an unpleasant surprise. Why is he unpleasant - after all, he is a very popular person and appears on TV more often than in advertising? Let's try to find out how a person who has been fired several times can achieve popularity and now claim the role of arbiter of other people's destinies. Moreover, they were dismissed in disgrace – first from the army, then from the newspaper “Military-Industrial Courier”. In the first case - for discrediting an officer's rank, in the second - for dishonest behavior in the post of editor-in-chief.

The nasty broom method

It is generally accepted that a person is the architect of his own happiness. But a blacksmith is a universal profession; he can forge anything. Someone, through work, talent, perseverance, step by step achieves something visible, while others simply carefully correct their own biography and instantly reach noticeably greater heights than those that much more talented but decent people can count on.

“Even behind the most beautiful peacock tail hides the most ordinary chicken ass.”
Faina Ranevskaya

In its current form, the biography of deputy candidate Igor Korotchenko is capable of causing sincere envy not only in Panikovsky, but also in the talented Ostap Bender. They, of course, are scammers and the thirst for personal enrichment was familiar to them, but in comparison with our hero they are just blind puppies. It's not talent here, it's talent. Judge for yourself.

After 12 years of dusty military service, holding technical positions after the Tambov School that were not associated with great responsibility, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was expelled from the army under the most shameful article for an officer with the wording “Unsuitable for the position in terms of moral and psychological qualities.” With deprivation of the right to a pension from the Ministry of Defense and wearing a military uniform.

If an army career doesn’t work out, it doesn’t matter, a near-army career is being pursued right away, fortunately, it is already clear that the country’s Armed Forces are the feeding trough that it is better not to part with. How a defrocked officer turned out to be an expert and military observer for the then booming Nezawiska is a question for the leadership of the newspaper of that time. There he also became a columnist for the Independent Military Review. Custom articles are only a fraction of the sins charged to him. In those same years, Igor Korotchenko worked in the field of political PR, participating in the election campaigns of the Congress of Russian Communities (now the Rodina party) and General Lebed. It is clear that in order to ride the restive horse of election financing, a certain talent and personal charm are simply necessary. As for honesty and decency, these qualities are not necessary for enrichment and political reputation. By the way, the PR campaigns he conducted ended in nothing. It seems that this trend will continue this year.

False colonel from the bureaucracy

A very indicative case was once investigated by the Military-Industrial Courier. Having learned that his namesake is among the graduates of the most prestigious Academy in military circles. Frunze, Korotchenko clearly includes his studies at the academy in his biography. Was there some kind of Korotchenko there? Was. What other questions!

Our character's experience suggests that you can find yourself in a position in the Ministry of Defense by entering it through the anus and becoming a member of the presidium of the Public Council. The operation “military-social activist” began in those years when the department was headed by Sergeev. The proximity of the “famous military journalist” to the generals allowed Lieutenant Colonel Korotchenko to be pushed into the next list for conferring military ranks. So in February 1999 he became a colonel. Andrei Karaulov produced a whole film on this topic, but the scandals subsided, and Korotchenko retained the military rank of “Colonel”. How? Very simple. At first, on the recommendation of the main military prosecutor’s office, he was deprived of his illegally obtained colonel’s rank, and under Serdyukov, the rank was returned. This order of Serdyukov is still waiting to be canceled.

Then Shoigu came, the days of decisive changes came in the army, people were replaced - and only Igor Korotchenko continues to stubbornly trample the ministerial corridors. There is such a profession - self-PR. Igor Korotchenko is its brightest representative. His profession is rare, but also one of the oldest.

Power is contraindicated

According to Korotchenko, he was expelled from the newspapers he headed for his adherence to principles. But the colleagues who worked with him at NG said that as a journalist he was zero, his ceiling was custom paid articles. He also left the Military-Industrial Courier with a loud scandal: by 2010, when this was happening, he was busy creating his own magazine under the fictitious name “National Defense,” ignoring his work in the military-industrial complex. In an amazing way, money for advertising from the Military-Industrial Courier began to flow there. The result is dismissal under the article. Korotchenko talked about vile insinuations and intrigues. There was a court, which, as expected, did not heed Korotchenko’s speeches; the dismissal was recognized as legal.

So, even though I don’t yet know whose name I’ll put a check mark against on the ballot, I’m already firmly convinced who probably won’t receive this honor from me. For one simple reason - power is contraindicated for people who are unscrupulous in the methods of career growth. At one time, I remembered the phrase: “Anyone can become a KGB employee - except those who want to become a KGB employee.” I would also apply it to power, considering any desire for it to be unsuitable for the profession. I really don’t want people with such a biography to write the laws by which I live, and meddle in the affairs of the army, which I respect immensely.

Alexey Peskov

Igor Korotchenko has two biographies. One is official – crystal clear. but the second one forces you to sue, especially on those points that are difficult to prove today.

Igor Korotchenko gave 12 years of his life to the army. He served in an Air Force repair shop and ensured communications security at the General Staff. There were not enough stars from the sky - apparently, the stars on his shoulder straps were more important to him. A sharp turn in the life of Lieutenant Colonel Korotchenko happened in 1994.

The officer was dismissed from the army under the discredited Article 49 of the Federal Law “On Military Duty and Military Service” as a serviceman who ceased to “meet the requirements established for him by law.” At one reminder of this fact, Korotchenko begins to go into real hysterics, which the whole country witnessed during the debates before the 2016 State Duma elections (he lost to Gennady Onishchenko). Oleg Mitvol deceived his opponent - Korotchenko began yelling at the leader of the “Greens”, called him a “traitor to the Motherland” and threatened to send him “to NATO machine guns.”

Why was the officer shown the door? According to his opponents, he screwed up: he cheated with the rations of his colleagues, wrote denunciations, for which he was allegedly beaten several times. However, the newspaper “Military Industrial Courier” (from which Korotchenko was also expelled with scandal, but more on that below) was unable to prove this information in court. If there were any bruises, they had healed long ago, so I had to give
refutation.

Kicked out of the newspaper

In the same 1994, Korotchenko got a job at Nezavisimaya Gazeta. They say that the newly minted military correspondent found an approach to the then owner of the media, Boris Berezovsky, and, taking advantage of his proximity to the body, weaved intrigues against the editor-in-chief. Korotchenko is also accused of writing custom articles (supposedly this is where the nickname Mister Thousand Dollars came from), but this is all, again, behind-the-scenes talk. Was it or not? Vitaly Tretyakov knows this for sure. But the former head of Nezavisimaya, as soon as he heard from us the name of the ex-employee, he flatly refused to talk about him.

After NG, Korotchenko got a job at the weekly Military-Industrial Courier, where he was busy praising Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, whom many saw as Vladimir Putin’s successor. At the same time, the officer who crashed out of the ranks of the Russian army... suddenly received the rank of colonel! Moreover, in violation of the procedure: Korotchenko did not go through the required military training in this case. When the illegality of obtaining the title was discovered, a new law had already been adopted, which allowed promotion on the basis of one certification. Korotchenko came out of this story with minimal losses (only the date of the order changed), but the sediment remained.

And then another problem came. Korotchenko, who by that time had become the editor-in-chief of VPK, disagreed with the owner of the newspaper, Igor Ashurbeyli. In such cases, someone leaves on their own, someone butts heads, and the colonel simply began to... truant. It was under this article that he was fired. Even the court, where Korotchenko, as usual, turned, did not help him.

Appointed to the Ministry of Defense

In 2012, a man with a tarnished military past received a new position: chairman of the Public Council of the Ministry of Defense (instead of Nikita Mikhalkov, who was disgraced with a flashing light). This happened when the ministry was still headed by Anatoly Serdyukov, whose reforms, like Ivanov’s in his time, were sung by Igor Yuryevich. Korotchenko found himself not only in a new position, but also in charge of the budget. Under him, 150 million rubles allocated for the formation of a positive image of the military department disappeared without a trace. The ex-head of the OS (currently in this position is Pavel Gusev) managed to dispute the accusations of misuse of funds. But where the money went is unknown.

They feed on government orders

Korotchenko is like a modern Khlestakov. You yourself already understood what type of warrior he is. It would be hard to call him a journalist either. Military expert? Korotchenko’s colleagues laugh at his “competence” and recall the story of how he, who graduated from the Tambov School, when he headed the Public Council, also indicated in his biography a diploma from the Military Academy. Frunze. Journalists made an inquiry: it turned out that Igor Korotchenko never studied there.

All this does not prevent the screen star from being a successful businessman. Korotchenko lives well on millions of government orders.

– I assume that this gentleman is financed by the military-industrial complex. Perhaps Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin, admits Andrei Karaulov, who dedicated a separate issue of “The Moment of Truth” to Korotchenko.

According to another version, Korotchenko enjoys the patronage of Sergei Ivanov, with whom he has maintained relations since the time of the joint but unsuccessful campaign against the Kremlin.

Who is he, Mr. Korotchenko? Disabled person. Yes, yes, disabled. So says Oleg Mitvol. Until they let them in on the machine guns, he recalls:

– Before that very debate, when Korotchenko snapped at me, I was standing at the Mosfilm pavilion. I was thinking about my speech on how to help people with disabilities living in Russia (that was the topic). At that moment, a car with a yellow disabled person’s badge drove up to the entrance, and a huge man solemnly emerged from the back seat. It reminded me of Operation Y. "Do not be noisy! I am disabled!" - says Morgunov. And then he easily lifts the car, turning it around. So, that “disabled person” at Mosfilm was Igor Korotchenko.

In these, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Industry Sergei Sobko asks Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika to pay attention to information published in one of the industry media.

According to what was stated in parliamentary requests, Igor Korotchenko, a well-known military expert who recently headed the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense, was in the fall of 1994 by decision of the certification commission, which considered that Lieutenant Colonel Korotchenko was not suitable for the position in terms of his moral and psychological qualities.

What is really going on there, whether the head of group 992 of the complex technical control center did something reprehensible or simply fell out with the management, it is unlikely that it will be possible to understand after many years.

The most unpleasant thing happened a few years later, in February 1999, when Igor Korotchenko received the rank of reserve colonel without going through the mandatory military training and tests in such cases, but by decision of the certification commission.

Actually, this is what Deputy Sobko received from Secretary of State, Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Pankov: “in accordance with current legislation on the basis of certification material.” The Main Military Prosecutor's Office apparently decided to delve a little deeper into the essence of the claims and came to the conclusion that, yes, there are no contradictions with the current legislation, but according to the legislation in force at the time of conferring the rank, it was still impossible to give Korotchenko a colonel without fees and credit.

Apparently, the Ministry of Defense is aware of this. How else can we explain the sentence with which for some reason Pankov’s answer to Sobko ends: “An officer, including a reserve officer, can be deprived of his military rank by a court decision or the protest of the prosecutor’s office.”

It can be assumed that the chairman of the Public Council will have to part with the extra star on his shoulder straps in the near future. And the question will arise, how could the civil society watchdog assigned to the Ministry of Defense be so unlucky - first one chairman in a strange way got himself a flashing light, and now another, it turns out, has already committed acts of dubious moral quality twice in his career? And doesn’t this cast a shadow on the military department itself?

Fake ID

« From the special storage of military archives
My service ID during the years of work at the General Staff, according to which I was given the right to inspect any military unit, organization and institution of the Armed Forces of the USSR. No more than 50 generals and officers had such “papers” (mine were signed by the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Colonel General Kleimenov). Although 20 years have passed, the tasks I was involved in are state secrets, so my credentials have been retouched. The last objects of inspection during the Soviet era, where we went shortly before the events of August 1991, were the 46th VA VGK, including the air division in Poltava (it was armed with Tu-22M3 and Tu-160), as well as the Belarusian Military District.”

Firstly, there is no “special storage facility for military archives”. There is the Central Archive of the Moscow Region - the central archive of the Ministry of Defense. There is fund No. 15. There are archives of some main departments of the General Staff. But such a thing - a “special storage facility for military archives” - simply does not exist in nature.

Secondly, all documents for dismissal from the Armed Forces (including service identification and personal number) must be submitted in accordance with the established procedure. If Korotchenko did not hand over this alleged certificate, this is already a serious violation. Why didn't he give it up? Yes, simply because no one in the General Staff knew about the existence of such a document, and therefore did not submit it.

Thirdly, why is it fake? We showed this document to the Chief of the General Staff (Army General), who during the period of its alleged issuance to Mr. Korotchenko led the “brain of the army.”

After a long study of the certificate, the Chief of the General Staff said that he had never seen such documents and it was unlikely that they could exist at all. As the Chief of the General Staff, the Army General especially emphasized, he never signed or issued such certificates to anyone. The military commander knew nothing about such certificates from those NGS who replaced him. [...]

False Colonel

« Colonel's shoulder straps
Assignment of the military rank of "colonel" is an important stage in the career of any military man. On February 23, 1999, I was presented with colonel’s shoulder straps by the Chief of Staff of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel General V. Meleshko, who conveyed warm congratulations from the head of the Russian military department, Marshal I. Sergeev (in the extract from the order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, personal accounting data is retouched).”

The question arises - what did Mr. Korotchenko retouch? What kind of secret is this? Here's what - your last position and personal number.

This is what his position actually looks like: head of technical control group 992 of the Center for Comprehensive Technical Control of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Personal number - P-388114.

The position, it must be said frankly, is not famous, it’s petty, there’s nothing to be proud of. That’s why Mr. Korotchenko bashfully covered it up. […]

Korotchenko in 1997-1999. wrote laudatory odes and panegyrics to the Minister of Defense I. Sergeev. He gained confidence in the chief of staff of the minister V. Meleshko. He persuaded the latter to include himself in the draft order on assigning regular military ranks to reserve officers. Naturally, Mr. Korotchenko hid his past (namely, that he was expelled from the Armed Forces due to a discreditable article) from Meleshko. And there was no time to check.

Why is it necessary to deprive Mr. Korotchenko of the military rank of colonel?

Firstly, we have received data from the office of Nezavisimaya Gazeta that in 1998-1999. Korotchenko was not called up for military training.

Secondly, citizens in the reserves can be assigned the next military rank on the recommendation of the official in charge of military training, only after passing military training and passing tests established by the Minister of Defense. It was not possible to find such a representation for the simple reason that it simply did not exist. Korotchenko did not take any tests at the end of the non-existent military training. It was also not possible to find such a document. […]

Mr. Thousand Dollars

In Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Igor Korotchenko swindled general directors of defense industry enterprises out of money

[…] There are two biographies of Korotchenko. One is written by his own hand, the second is real.

Igor Yuryevich Korotchenko - aka Vasily Kasarin, aka Igor Yuryev, aka Vadim Egorov, aka Maxim Isaev, aka Igor Lensky, aka Gennady Pulin, aka Boris Vyatkin (other pseudonyms are possible, under which Korotchenko usually performs in in mass media).

Born in 1960, drafted in 1977, Moscow, graduated in 1982 from the Tambov Higher Aviation Engineering School.

Igor Korotchenko begins to talk about himself like this:

He served in units of the Air Force (1982-1984), the General Staff of the Air Force (1984-1987), and the General Staff of the Armed Forces (1987-1994).

At first glance, it sounds impressive. It remains to clarify in what positions Igor Korotchenko served in active military service and why he served as an officer for only twelve years.

In 1982-1985. Igor Korotchenko served in an Air Force repair shop in the village of Velyaminovo, Moscow Region (the years he spent in various positions, by the way, do not entirely coincide with his official biography). In Igor Korotchenko’s own stories, this small repair shop grows to the scale of a large aircraft repair plant, and his insignificant position (primary officer, it should be noted) - to the head of the leading department of this plant. Moreover, Korotchenko talks about this so sincerely and confidently that, apparently, he himself believes in it.

Then (in 1985-1989) Igor Korotchenko served at the Integrated Technical Control Unit, 406th Laboratory of the Air Force General Staff. It sounds solid, but UKTK is a very small unit responsible for communications security. Of course, in this military team, Igor Korotchenko’s position was by no means the head of the unit.

The first significant promotion occurred in 1989 - Korotchenko was appointed head of the group of the 1st department of the 992nd Center for Integrated Technical Control of the General Staff (it is possible that there were 1-2 military personnel under his command at that time). Igor Korotchenko remained in this position until 1991.

In 1991, he was moved to the position of head of the technical control group (this is not a promotion, but a lateral movement). At the zenith of his officer career, Korotchenko sat with headphones on and listened to what others were saying on the phone. This is his unique service maximum.

What else should be noted in Korotchenko’s official biography? Usually, in the sixth or seventh year of officer service, a promising graduate of a military school enters a military academy of a branch of the Armed Forces. This did not happen to Korotchenko. And this only says one thing - the officer was considered unpromising and was generally characterized negatively in his service.

Finally, in 1994, Igor Korotchenko’s officer service suddenly ended.

He was dismissed with the rank of lieutenant colonel (according to other sources - major) under subparagraph 2G of paragraph 2 of article 49 of the Federal Law “On Military Duty and Military Service.” In 1994, this meant (it should be noted that there were later versions of this law): “If a serviceman ceases to meet the requirements established for him by the Law.” In other words, this is the most discreditable article under which an officer could be dismissed from the Armed Forces. The moral character of Igor Korotchenko as an officer of the Armed Forces is probably most expressively indicated by the fact that fellow officers fairly beat Korotchenko in the face for unseemly actions. Major Korotchenko was forced to go to service with bruises under his eyes.

After his dismissal from the Armed Forces, they did not want to give him a foreign passport for a long time. Chief of Electronic Warfare of the General Staff in the mid-1990s. (to which the CCTC was subordinate), shaking a stack of papers describing the unseemly actions of Igor Korotchenko, shouted: “And you want to give this bastard a foreign passport?!” Naturally, Korotchenko carefully hides such details of his own service. By the way, they explain a lot about his character.

To ignorant people, Korotchenko usually introduces himself as a reserve colonel of the General Staff. Or a reserve colonel of the Strategic Missile Forces. Probably like the mood. If it’s good, he’s a reserve colonel of the General Staff. If so-so - reserve colonel of the Strategic Missile Forces. Periodically (also, apparently, also depending on the mood) he announces himself as a graduate of the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze (which he, of course, never finished). [...]

For example, Igor Korotchenko also likes to talk about himself like this:

“In 2003, expressing protest against the anti-state information policy of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, owned by the oligarch Boris Berezovsky, he turned to the journalists of Nezavisimaya Voennoye Obozreniye with a proposal to leave the editorial office, and was fully supported by the staff.” However, the veterans of Nezavisimaya Gazeta know that Igor Korotchenko never expressed any protest to anyone in the newspaper. In “Nezavisimaya” he mainly swindled general directors of military-industrial complex enterprises out of money, which earned him the nickname Mr. “Thousand Dollars.” For Korotchenko did not take on a single issue related to the defense industry until he was promised at least this amount (a thousand dollars, by the way, was not at all small money for the second half of the 1990s).

In 2003, Sergei Sokut, deputy executive editor of the Independent Military Review, left for a new job. Igor Korotchenko expected that this position would be offered to him. However, this did not happen and Korotchenko harbored a grudge. And then the Military-Industrial Courier came in handy, where Igor Korotchenko devoured the editor-in-chief Anatoly Dokuchaev in a matter of days and, through intrigue and sleight of hand, was confirmed as editor-in-chief. The overall result of our hero’s tenure as editor-in-chief of VPK was unsuccessful. He was never able to make the newspaper truly interesting and in demand by readers (unless, for the sake of personal gain, he demonstrated devotion and loyalty to the leadership of the military department).

This was partly because the main goal of Korotchenko’s work in the newspaper “Military-Industrial Courier” (at one time) was to glorify Sergei Ivanov as a possible president of Russia. Strictly speaking, everything was subordinated to this in the activities of Igor Korotchenko. In narrow circles at that time, Korotchenko used to say that he thought of his future as follows: Sergei Ivanov - president, Korotchenko, for services rendered, - minister of defense. According to another version, stated by Korotchenko himself, for assistance in the election campaign of Sergei Ivanov, he was promised the post of general director of 1 TV channel.

The magazine “National Defense” was subordinated to the same goals, which Korotchenko began publishing under the pseudonym Vasily Kasarin (by the way, many of the editorial staff of this magazine are fictitious people; there are no journalists with such names in Moscow). The case is unique even for our time - the publication of a magazine (in the early stages of its existence) under a pseudonym. At one time the magazine closed. But recently its release was resumed. And again, on the pages of this publication, someone is glorified, and exclusively for the purpose of solving Igor Korotchenko’s personal problems (some of those being glorified probably have no idea about this).

The Oborona.ru portal, created under the leadership of Igor Korotchenko, was also subordinated to the same task - PR of Sergei Ivanov. The editorial staff are the same as those in National Defense. Led, of course, by the mysterious Vasily Kasarin. After Ivanov was not elected president, the portal (with rather stupid content, I must say frankly) ceased to exist.

And here is a characteristic touch - as soon as Sergei Ivanov left the race as a potential president of Russia, Igor Korotchenko instantly lost interest in his overlord. And this is all Korotchenko. And in fact, why does he need Ivanov now, especially since he failed so miserably to live up to his expectations and aspirations.

For misconduct that diametrically diverges from generally accepted norms of morality and morality, Igor Korotchenko was expelled from the post of editor-in-chief of the newspaper Military-Industrial Courier at the end of 2009.

["Military-Industrial Courier", 10/12/2011: Igor Korotchenko was fired for banal absenteeism. He tried to challenge this decision in court. However, on May 31, 2011, the Savyolovsky District Court of Moscow refused to satisfy I. Yu. Korotchenko’s claim for reinstatement as editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Military-Industrial Courier” of the limited liability company “Editing Board of the newspaper “Russia” (this is what the LLC carried out during the period described, the publication of the newspaper "VPK"), recovery of wages for the period of forced absence and compensation for moral damage. By the ruling of the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Moscow City Court dated September 26, 2011, the said court decision was left unchanged, and the cassation appeal of I. Yu. Korotchenko was not satisfied.
[…] the court found that from January 11 to February 24, 2010, I. Yu. Korotchenko did not show up at the office of the Rossiya newspaper editorial office. I. Yu. Korotchenko ignored the daily demands of the company’s management to come to the workplace and give explanations about the reasons for his absence. - Insert K.ru]

Extremely embittered by what had happened, Korotchenko launched a real information war against his former employer. [...] By the way, as soon as Korotchenko was kicked out of the Military-Industrial Courier, he immediately signed up as an irreconcilable fighter against corruption in the military-industrial complex. [...]

[i-korotchenko, 02/14/2012, “The Russian state against Igor Ashurbeyli”: Starting my journalistic investigation into Ashurbeyli, an Azerbaijani co-operator who penetrated the leadership of the famous NGO “Almaz” in the troubled 90s (how he achieved this, and about his scandalous background - see the article in the newspaper "Zavtra" "Who are you, Mr. Ashurbeyli?", I was well aware of all the possible adverse consequences for myself personally.
I became the first and only editor-in-chief in modern Russian history, whose powers were terminated in December 2009 with the help of an armed private security company - under the threat of force, I was forced to leave the editorial office of the Military-Industrial Courier newspaper, which belonged to Ashurbeyli.
In six years of work as editor-in-chief of VPK, I have never (!) been on vacation - I devoted myself completely to work. [...] Ashurbeyli broke up with me in his “corporate style” - I was blocked from entering the editorial office, and was subsequently fired for absenteeism on fabricated documents. [...]
Last Friday, speaking live on the Voice of Russia radio station, I stated that an investigation into the Ashurbeyli case is necessary, with a report to the top officials of the Russian leadership to take action. The answer was not long in coming: now Sobkov’s requests themselves were put into action - to MK. Of course, as everyone well knows, an honest and incorruptible publication. - Insert K.ru] [kudryash-a, 08/30/2011, “Oh yes Korotchenko, oh yes...”: Korotchenko reported that the activities of the respected Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation A.E. Serdyukova, in particular regarding the showdown with the country’s military-industrial complex over state defense orders, received the highest rating in the emigrant newspaper “Russian Bazaar”, published in Brighton Beach.
There is a suspicion that Korotchenko himself organized it, perhaps with money from our military department, where he works as chairman of the Public Council commission for information and propaganda support and increasing the prestige of military service. - Insert K.ru]

Igor Korotchenko is a shameful squalor and a swindler. The Chief Military Prosecutor of the Russian Federation agrees with this. Everyone who was interviewed for the investigation about this scandalous social activist, a fighter against the NATO bloc, agrees with this. The film is under the cut.

His title and positions are fake. Korotchenko is neither a colonel, nor an editor, nor a director. It's funny, but there's also a part that's not funny. There are still serious questions about the huge amounts of missing money and about control over the activities of the Russian Defense Ministry.

General facts:

1. Korotchenko is not a colonel. Back in 2011, the Chief Military Prosecutor of the Russian Federation issued a conclusion that the assignment of the title was illegal. The prosecutor has been trying for 5 years to deprive Korotchenko of his title, obtained by deception, but the swindler continues to remain Chairman of the Public Council under the Minister of Defense.

My comments disappear at this point, and then I just silently swallow air.

If the Chief Military Prosecutor of the country cannot deprive a swindler of his rank, punish him and conduct an investigation into who gave this rank and why, then how do the Laws in the Armed Forces generally work?

2. The Public Council was allocated 150 million rubles to “improve the public image of the Armed Forces.” The money came into Korotchenko’s possession, but what it was spent on is unknown, there is no report.

An excellent justification is heard in the film about this, “150 million have disappeared - but this is such a small thing compared to what is happening in the Armed Forces...”. And then the story is about military towns that were built, demolished, and then built again in the same place.

3. Korotchenko introduces himself as the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine "National Defense" and the Director of the Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade. Both organizations do not exist. There is a kindergarten at the address of the Analysis Center. At the address of the editorial office of Defense magazine there is a swimming pool.

The film asks the question: does the Chief Military Prosecutor of the Russian Federation know that there is a kindergarten at the address of the Korotchenko Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade? And the answer is “Apparently he doesn’t know.” It is suggested that fake organizations are used to steal money, and that Korotchenko shares stolen goods with those in the Moscow Region who do not allow him to be punished for his false rank.

Andrey Karaulov greatly underestimates the extent of what is happening. In Karaulov’s version, Korotchenko is a pathetic squalor, a swindler who tricked his way into a lucrative position and (probably) steals money there. The entire second half of the film says that Korotchenko cannot be Chairman of the Council because he does not have broad enough authority. What kind of broad authority are we talking about when he was kicked out of the army in disgrace for his immoral appearance [according to some data - Korotchenko was beaten - I assumed that this was for theft in the locker rooms, but it turned out that it was for sexual intercourse with men during official time] , and now he continues to walk around with a military rank that he does not have?

The situation is much more serious:

— The Chairman of the Public Council must be a person with social weight and fame, who could ensure public control over the Defense Ministry, including the Minister of Defense himself.
For example, ask Shoigu about his $20 million house. And such a person would have to answer! They hire Korotchenko, a swindler with a false title, under pressure from the Prosecutor's Office, who was previously kicked out of the Armed Forces. Korotchenko is unlikely to ask uncomfortable questions. A serious systemic problem is emerging.

— The amazing impotence of the Prosecutor's Office. All the documents about the scam are in hand, they are simple and transparent. And within 5 they can’t do anything? Lawlessness in its extreme form.

- Finally, theft of money, fake organizations located in the pool and kindergarten. Korotchenko is completely exposed. However, there is no liability. It is impossible to view the expenses of the Public Council. And this is only 150 million rubles, about which it accidentally became known that they had evaporated.

This story includes absolutely all of Putin’s Russia. Theft, legal chaos that causes insanity.

But, most importantly, the destruction of control systems. At a high control post of the Ministry of Defense there is a swindler who knows that he can be thrown out of there at any moment. Isn't it too convenient to have such a controller?

How can one somehow interrupt such a total system of lawlessness? The Chief Military Prosecutor is powerless. That's the problem. All normal methods have been exhausted. What's left?

Family

Father is a military man.

Married, has a son.

Biography

Born on February 15, 1960 in Riga, Latvian SSR. Russian. Graduated in 1982 Tambov Higher Military Aviation Engineering School named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky.

In 1982-1985, he served in the Air Force repair shop in the village of Velyaminovo, Moscow Region, and served in combat units of the USSR Air Force.

Since 1985 he served in USSR Air Force Main Headquarters at the Integrated Technical Control Unit, 406th Laboratory of the Air Force General Staff.

In 1987-1994 he served in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, then in the Russian Federation.

In 1989 he was appointed group chief of the 1st department of the 992nd Center for Comprehensive Technical Control of the General Staff.

The circumstances of the dismissal of 34-year-old Korotchenko from the General Staff in 1994 are not clear; due to his age, he did not qualify as a retiree.

According to media reports, Korotchenko was dismissed with the rank of lieutenant colonel under subparagraph 2G of paragraph 2 of Article 49 of the Federal Law “On Military Duty and Military Service.” In those years this meant that " the serviceman ceased to meet the requirements established for him by law".

The media suggested that Korotchenko, according to the conclusion of the certification commission, ceased to correspond to the position in terms of moral and psychological qualities.

Was a member CPSU from 1982 to 1991. Has a military rank - reserve colonel.

Since 1994 he has worked as a military journalist in "Nezavisimaya Gazeta", runs the regular column “Wars and Armies”, initiates the publication "Independent Military Review", attracts to the pages of the publication a wide range of authors from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, SVR, GRU, FSB and FAPSI.

In 1995, he developed the military section of the election program Congress of Russian Communities in the elections to the State Duma. In 1996, he participated in the development of the presidential election program Alexandra Lebed.

In 2003, protesting against the anti-state information policy of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, owned by the oligarch Boris Berezovsky, turned to the journalists of the Independent Military Review with a proposal to leave the editorial office and, as stated in his official biography, was fully supported by the team.

In 2003-2010, he was the editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine "Military-industrial courier". He left his post with a scandal that was widely covered in the press.

In the mid-2000s, he created the Internet portal Oborona.ru, with the goal of promoting the Minister of Defense and First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ivanov, who was predicted to become president of Russia.

He published under the pseudonyms “Vasily Kasarin”, “Igor Yuryev”, “Maxim Isaev”.

Awarded a prize from the Russian Biographical Institute "Person of the Year 2005".

Since 2006, publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine "National Defense". Considered an expert in the global arms export market.

Korotchenko - director Center for Analysis of the Global Arms Trade. He wrote over 500 articles on issues of military reform, military development, strategic nuclear forces, the situation in the military-industrial complex, the fight against terrorism, and the activities of intelligence services. As a journalist, he has visited more than 40 countries around the world.

Was the chairman Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation from February 8, 2012 to April 24, 2013.

He is a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Expert consultant Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on issues of the military-industrial complex, member of the Central Council DOSAAF Russia.

He has many awards from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Commander-in-Chief of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Winner of awards from the Union of Journalists of Moscow and Russia.

A regular participant in various television programs and shows as a military expert and analyst.

In September 2015, at a conference in Lugansk, Korotchenko said: “Ukraine is pursuing a policy of state terrorism against its former east. The leaders in Kiev who gave the orders should be brought to international court as war criminals. This also applies to Mr. Ukrainian military who carried out criminal orders,” the expert said. - All Russia's sympathies are with Donbass. Count on Russia’s powerful shoulder,” Korotchenko addressed the audience.

Scandals, rumors

There is information that the official biography of Igor Korotchenko and the real one are very different from each other.

So, in the official biography in 1982-1985. Igor Korotchenko served in an Air Force repair shop in the village of Velyaminovo, Moscow region, and in his biography this small workshop grew to the scale of a large aircraft repair plant, and his minor position became the head of the leading department of this plant.

Then (in 1985-1989) he served at the Integrated Technical Control Unit, 406th Laboratory of the Air Force General Staff. This is a very small unit responsible for communications security, and Korotchenko served as the head of the unit.

The first significant increase occurred in 1989 - Korotchenko was appointed head of the group of the 1st department of the 992nd Center for Comprehensive Technical Control General Staff. Most likely, there were 1-2 military personnel under his command. Igor Korotchenko remained in this position until 1991.

He was then moved to the position of head of the technical control group. Consequently, at the zenith of his officer career, Korotchenko was engaged in wiretapping.

Usually, in the sixth or seventh year of officer service, a promising officer enters a military academy of a branch of the Armed Forces. This did not happen with Korotchenko (although in the official biography there is a vague statement about studying at Academy named after Frunze). And this only says one thing - the officer was considered unpromising and was generally characterized negatively in his service.

In 1994, Igor Korotchenko's officer career suddenly ended. He was dismissed with the rank of lieutenant colonel (according to other sources - major) under subparagraph 2G of paragraph 2 of article 49 of the Federal Law "On Military Duty and Military Service". In 1994 this meant: " If a serviceman ceases to meet the requirements established for him by law". In other words, this is the most discreditable article under which an officer could be dismissed from the Armed Forces. The moral character of Igor Korotchenko is probably most expressively indicated by the fact that fellow officers often hit Korotchenko in the face for unseemly actions. During his service, Major Korotchenko was forced to walk around with bruises.

After his dismissal from the Armed Forces, they did not want to give him a foreign passport for a long time. Chief of Electronic Warfare of the General Staff in the mid-1990s. (to which the CCTC was subordinate), shaking a stack of papers describing the unseemly actions of Igor Korotchenko, shouted: “ And you want to give this bastard a foreign passport?!".

To ignorant people, Korotchenko usually introduces himself as a reserve colonel of the General Staff. Or a reserve colonel Strategic Missile Forces. Periodically declares himself a graduate of the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze, which he, of course, never finished.

The Air Force repair shop and the complex technical control unit (center) are extremely small units in number, so it is very difficult to meet Korotchenko’s colleagues. This gives Korotchenko scope for legends about his own service in the Armed Forces.

According to Igor Korotchenko: " In 2003, protesting against the anti-state information policy of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, which belonged to the oligarch Boris Berezovsky, he approached the journalists of Nezavisimoe Military Review with a proposal to leave the editorial office, and was fully supported by the staff".

Journalists "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" They know that Igor Korotchenko never expressed any protest to anyone in the newspaper. In the newspaper, he was engaged in defrauding general directors of military-industrial complex enterprises out of money, which earned him the nickname "Mr. Thousand Dollars". For Korotchenko did not take on a single issue related to the defense industry until he was promised a minimum of this amount (a thousand dollars, by the way, was not at all small money for the second half of the 1990s).

In 2003, the deputy executive editor of the Independent Military Review left. Sergey Sokut. Korotchenko hoped that this position would be offered to him. However, this did not happen. But in the Military-Industrial Courier, Igor Korotchenko devoured the editor-in-chief in a matter of days Anatoly Dokuchaeva and through intrigue and was approved by the editor-in-chief. He succeeded in this position: he was unable to make the newspaper truly interesting and in demand. But he glorified in every possible way Sergei Ivanov as a possible next president of Russia. All the activities of Igor Korotchenko were subordinated to this. They say that in a friendly circle, Korotchenko dreamed that Sergei Ivanov would become president, and Korotchenko, for services rendered, would become minister of defense. According to another version, stated by Korotchenko himself, for assistance in the election campaign of Sergei Ivanov, he was promised the post of general director of 1 TV channel.

The magazine was subordinated to the same goals "National Defense", which Korotchenko began publishing under the pseudonym Vasily Kasarin. The case is unique even for our time - publishing a magazine under a pseudonym. The magazine was closed, but its publication was recently resumed. On the pages of this publication, someone is again glorified, and exclusively to solve the personal problems of Igor Korotchenko.

The portal created under the leadership of Igor Korotchenko was subordinated to the PR of Sergei Ivanov Oborona.ru. Led by the mysterious Vasily Kasarin. After being elected president Dmitry Medvedev the portal ceased to exist. Moreover, as soon as Sergei Ivanov left the race as a potential president of Russia, Igor Korotchenko instantly lost interest in his overlord.

At the end of 2009, for misconduct that diametrically diverged from generally accepted norms of morality and morality, Igor Korotchenko was expelled from his post as editor-in-chief of the Military-Industrial Courier newspaper.

Extremely embittered by what had happened, Korotchenko launched a real information war against his former employer, pouring streams of dirt on him, presenting it as a fight against corruption in the military-industrial complex.

As a result of multi-step combinations and various kinds of offerings, Korotchenko became a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. That is, a person with a very mediocre army career, expelled from the Armed Forces under a discreditable article, advises to equip the army.

In the army, Korotchenko did not even command a platoon; he never worked in the defense industry, not even in ordinary positions. For troubled times and for modern Russian reality, this is probably enough to be an expert-analyst of the Public Chamber under the President of the Russian Federation on defense industry issues. However, Igor Korotchenko himself claims that the media deliberately use “black PR” tools against him by publishing incriminating articles. He is ready to defend his honor in court.

At the end of August 2016, popular military expert and candidate from the Rodina party Igor Korotchenko unexpectedly appeared before voters in the image of a Terminator, or at least an American pilot from the film Top Gun.

During the debate, Korotchenko changed his image, and after August 30, he appears before voters and debate competitors exclusively in a leather jacket and dark drop glasses.