Obvious individual suffering from Serdyukov’s ‘New Profile’ military reforms hasn’t been readily apparent until now.
Russian media today carried sad news about a 34-year-old lieutenant colonel, one Aleksey Kudryavtsev, serving in Udmurtiya, who hung himself in the forest upon learning his unit would be disbanded.
Press said he served in v/ch 93233, which Yandex shows is the military commissariat [draft and mobilization office] for Igra Rayon of the Udmurt Republic. Kudryavtsev must have been one of the few remaining uniforms in the commissariat since most military men were early victims of Serdyukov’s cut in the officer corps. Some officers have been able to serve on as civilians.
Despondent on finding out about his imminent dismissal, the lieutenant colonel stood to lose not only his post, but also his service apartment. He wrote his wife a note saying not to look for him and to start a new family, and then disappeared last September. His body was finally located in a remote wooded area. He left sons of 4 and 8 behind.
Newsru.com and Argumenty nedeli covered the story.
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