Valentin Korabelnikov
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General Valentin Vladimirovich Korabelnikov (in Russian: Валентин Владимирович Корабельников, b. January 4, 1946, in Tambov Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Russian military official.
Since May 1997 he has been the Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian General Staff.
He graduated from the Military-Diplomatic Academy of intelligence and traversed almost all the steps of the bureaucratic ladder in GRU [1]. He has always been personally involved in operational work. He reportedly developed and implemented the operation to eliminate Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudaev by a missile strike which homed in on his satellite telephone link [2]. He was ambushed by Chechen fighters and wounded [3].
In July 1999, he has received an official acknowledgment from president Boris Yeltsin "for the significant contribution to settlement of the Kosovo War". He was a member of Russian delegation, led by Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov that met with Slobodan Milosevic during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia [4].
He was a member of Commission on military-technical cooperation with foreign countries from September 1999 to November 2000.
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- Smart and well trained people work with US His interview
- President Putin visits new GRU headquaters
- Another interview (Russian)
- His biography (Russian)
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GRU Chief May 1997 – present |
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