Anatoly Kulikov

Анатолий Куликов
Kulikov in 2018
Minister of Internal AffairsIn office
6 July 1995 – 23 March 1998PresidentBoris YeltsinPrime MinisterViktor ChernomyrdinPreceded byViktor YerinSucceeded bySergei Stepashin Personal detailsBorn (1946-09-04) September 4, 1946 (age 77)
Aigursky, Stavropol Krai, RSFSR, USSRMilitary serviceAllegiance Soviet Union
 RussiaBranch/serviceSoviet Internal Troops
Russian Internal troopsYears of service1966-1998RankGeneralBattles/wars1993 Russian constitutional crisis
First Chechen War

Anatoly Sergeyevich Kulikov (Russian: Анатолий Серге́евич Кулико́в; born 4 September 1946) is a Russian General of the Army, former Interior Minister of Russia (1995–1998).

In 1992 Kulikov became Commander of the Interior Troops. Hence he was one of the commanders of pro-government forces during the 1993 Constitutional Crisis in Moscow and the First Chechen War. In early 1995 Kulikov was appointed commander of the Joint Group of Federal Forces in Chechnya and he commanded the Russian forces during the infamous Samashki massacre.

On July 6, 1995, after the Budyonnovsk hostage crisis, he succeeded Viktor Yerin as Interior Minister of Russia. In August 1996 Alexander Lebed, who had just been appointed Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, blamed Kulikov for the disastrous Battle of Grozny and requested that President Boris Yeltsin sack him. However, Yeltsin declined his request and in October fired Lebed from his position.

In 1997, Kulikov linked both the Cherney brothers and Reuben brothers to the Izmaylovskaya mafia which was led by Anton Malevsky in Israel, but, in March 1998, Boris Yeltsin removed Kulikov from his post along with the entire second cabinet of Viktor Chernomyrdin.[1]

While most of the ministers of the old cabinet were reappointed to Sergei Kiriyenko's Cabinet, Kulikov wasn't and Sergei Stepashin became the next interior minister. Afterwards, Kulikov was elected to the State Duma twice, in the 1999 election and 2003 election, and was a member of the pro-government United Russia faction.

Honours and awards

References

  1. ^ Behar, Richard (12 June 2000). "Capitalism in a cold climate". Fortune (in Russian). Archived from the original on 19 October 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2021. The story of Trans World's aluminum empire is filled with bribes, shell companies, profiteers, and more than a few corpses. Then again, in today's Russia, that's pretty much par for the course. Archived as Капитализм в холодном климате in Russian at compromat.ru on 21 June 2000.

External links

  • Timothy L. Thomas. Anatoliy Sergeevich Kulikov: Policeman, Power Minister, Deputy Prime Minister...Politician? Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement Vol. 7, No. 1 (Summer 1998), pp. 149–178.
  • (in Russian) Biography as of 1997 in Russian
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1995 — 1998
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