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) is a
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n General of the Army, former Interior Minister of Russia (1995-1998).
In 1992 Kulikov became Commander of the
Interior TroopsInternal Troops, full name Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs is a paramilitary national guard like force in the now-defunct Soviet Union and its successor countries, particularly, in Russia and Ukraine. Internal Troops are subordinated to Internal Affairs Ministries of the...
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Anatoly Kulikov ' onMouseout='HidePop("34201")' href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Stavropol_Krai">Stavropol Krai
Stavropol Krai is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Stavropol.-Geography:Stavropol Krai encompasses the central part of the Fore-Caucasus and most of the Northern slopes of Caucasus Major...
,
Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
) is a
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n General of the Army, former Interior Minister of Russia (1995-1998).
In 1992 Kulikov became Commander of the
Interior TroopsInternal Troops, full name Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs is a paramilitary national guard like force in the now-defunct Soviet Union and its successor countries, particularly, in Russia and Ukraine. Internal Troops are subordinated to Internal Affairs Ministries of the...
. Hence he was one of the commanders of pro-government forces during the 1993 Constitutional Crisis in
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and the
First Chechen WarThe First Chechen War, also known as the War in Chechnya, was a conflict between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, fought from December 1994 to August 1996...
. In early 1995 Kulikov was appointed commander of the Joint Group of Federal Forces in
ChechnyaThe Chechen Republic , or, informally, Chechnya , sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn, is a federal subject of Russia...
and he commanded the Russian forces during the infamous
Samashki massacreThe Samashki massacre was an incident which occurred on April 7-8, 1995, in the village of Samashki, at the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia. Numerous villagers died at the hands of Russian paramilitary troops, many of them reportedly drunk or drugged, under the command of Gen. Anatoly Kulikov...
.
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 RussiaThe Security Council of the Russian Federation is a consultative body of the Russian President that works out the President's decisions on national security affairs...
, blamed Kulikov for the disastrous
Battle of GroznyIn the August 1996 Battle of Grozny Chechen rebels conducted a rapid assault on the Chechnya capital Grozny...
and requested President
Boris YeltsinBoris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999....
sack him. However, Yeltsin declined his request and in October fired Lebed from his position. Eventually, Kulikov was dismissed in March 1998 along with the entire second cabinet of
Viktor ChernomyrdinViktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin is a Russian politician. Chernomyrdin was Prime Minister of Russia from 1992 to 1998. From 2001 to 2009, he was Russia's ambassador to Ukraine. After that, he was designated as a presidential adviser....
.
While most of the ministers of the old cabinet were reappointed to
Sergei Kiriyenko's CabinetSergei Kiriyenko's Cabinet was the sixth cabinet of government of the Russian Federation, preceded by Viktor Chernomyrdin's Second Cabinet and followed by Yevgeny Primakov's Cabinet. It was led by Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko, appointed acting Prime Minister on March 23 and proposed to the...
, Kulikov wasn't and
Sergei StepashinSergei Vadimovich Stepashin is a Russian politician, current Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation and former Prime Minister of Russia. He was appointed federal security minister by President Boris Yeltsin in 1994...
became the next Interior Minister. Afterwards, Kulikov was elected to the
State DumaThe State Duma in the Russian Federation is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia , the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia. The Duma is headquartered in central Moscow, a few steps from Manege Square. Its members are referred to as deputies...
twice, in the
1999 electionLegislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on December 19 1999. At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma , the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia ....
and
2003 electionLegislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on December 7 2003. At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma , the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia ....
, and was a member of the pro-government
United RussiaUnited Russia is the major political party in the Russian Federation. United Russia supports President Dmitry Medvedev, and is currently the largest political party in the Russian Federation...
faction.
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