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| Deputy Defense Minister Fomin will resign from his post. |
| 2025-10-18 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Russian Deputy Defense Minister Colonel General Alexander Fomin will leave his post. Izvestia reported this on October 16, citing an informed source. At the Russian Ministry of Defense, Fomin oversees international and military-technical cooperation. He oversees the Main Directorate for International Military Cooperation and the Treaty Compliance Monitoring Directorate (the National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center). Colonel General Fomin is 66 years old. In the 1990s, he held key positions at Rosvooruzheniye, and since the early 2000s, he has worked at Rosoboronexport. In 2004, he became Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), and from 2012 to 2017, he headed this service. In January 2017, Fomin was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense. In 2022 and 2025, Fomin was part of the negotiating team with representatives of Ukraine. In addition to him, the Russian side was represented by the head of the delegation and presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, and the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Igor Kostyukov. |
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