Marat Minyurovich Kulakhmetov (Russian: Марат Минюрович Кулахметов; born 1959 in Penza) is a Major General of the Russian Army and commander of the Combined Peacekeeping Forces in South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia.[1][2] The Georgian side accuses him of supporting the South Ossetian separatists and has raised the question of substituting the Russian-led peacekeeping operation with a OSCE force.
Kulakhmetov was born in Penza to Tatar parents. He graduated from Frunze Military Academy in Moscow in 1991.
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