Leonid Khabarov
Leonid Vasilyevich Khabarov (Russian Леонид Васильевич Хабаров; born May 8, 1947 in Schadrinsk ) is a former Soviet and Russian officer. He was war veterans of Afghanistan and university teachers.
Khabarov had fought against the government of Russian President Yeltsin and is currently (2012 ) an important critic of current Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and the Russian military reform. He is assigned to the Russian nationalists and is currently in custody, various supporters are committed to a release.
Military career
Khabarov was already a celebrity, because in 1975 he played in the 1970s in the Soviet Union in a well known Advertising Video of the Soviet Army, the main role.
His air attack battalion flew in 1979 as the first unit of the Soviet army, the border with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and occupied by a 450 -km-long march to the strategically important Salangpass lossless, which Khabarov whose first Soviet commander was.
After discharge from the armed forces, he led from 1991 to 2010 the Military Department of the Ural State Technical University. In 2011, he retired.
He expressed publicly critical of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, whom he characterized, among other things not as a statesman, but state criminals. Serdyukov is controversial in his office because he is the first non- military in the position and due to profound intervention in the procurement and organization.
Remand
On September 19, 2011 Khabarov was arrested and remanded in custody. He is currently located in Yekaterinburg in Jail No. 1, because a "trial of the organization of an armed uprising and the involvement of other people in terrorist activities," he accused.
In various cities of the Russian Federation as well as from the Russian diplomatic missions and consular offices in the CIS countries rallies in support Khabarov and protests against his arrest and prolonged court proceedings were organized.
The SOVA Center assigns Khabarov the right-wing nationalist re- establishment of the Union of the Russian People ( NOMP ) and as its local leader in Voronezh one. Sova newsletter reports of weapons finds at Khabarov, a Mitverhafteter NOMP supporters, former judicial police officer Vladislav " Termite " Ladeischtschikow had already been sentenced to a relatively mild sentence of 6 years.
Against the arrest saying, among other things Andrei Savelyev, Leonid Grigoryevich Ivashov, Alexei Dymowski, Maxim Kalashnikov and Irek Murtazin, which by no means belonged Khabarov political camp. Colonel Vladislav Syomkowski claimed in an interview with the Public Post, the indictment alleged quote coup plans where Khabarov entire regions would have a sudden power failure will paralyze. The allegations have similarity with the show trials of the 1930s. At that time such a power outage would have been shocking. In contrast, fall in modern Russia continuously from the power, the allegations were constructed.
Awards
- Red Banner
- Medal " For distinction in military service ", all classes
- Medal " for faultless service ", all classes
- Medal " Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR "
After the fall of the Soviet Union, he received the Order of Merit of the Russian military and some other awards, which fell partly due to the post-communist forces of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.