A military court in Moscow has sent to pretrial detention Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, a senior military official, the latest arrest of a top military official in what the Kremlin called its ongoing fight against corruption.
Belarus's authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka on May 23 appointed Major General Paval Muraveyka to the post of the chief of the Belarusian armed forces' General Staff.
The deputy head of the Russian army's General Staff has been accused of taking bribes and arrested, investigators said on Thursday, the latest in a slew of high-profile cases of alleged corruption to shake the military's top brass
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