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Anatoly Sergeyevich Kulikov
(
Russian
:
Анатолий Серге?евич Кулико?в
; 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
.
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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.
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