On December 26 last year, a short article “Defense Minister Shoigu decided to check his deputy” was published in the Argumenty Nedeli publication: “Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered an internal audit of the activities of his Secretary of State, Deputy Minister, Colonel General Nikolai Pankov. “Sergei Kozhugetovich’s interest is aroused by a number of publications that Pankov is involved in verifiable transactions with hectares of Krasnodar land, which previously belonged to the Ministry of Defense, and then inexplicably ended up in the private property of A. Serdyukov,” said a source in the military department. Answering a question from Argumentov.ru: “Why is the internal inspection doing this, and not the Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia?”, the source noted that: “The documents are drawn up very carefully, it will be difficult to prove Pankov’s involvement. But all the revealed facts will be on the table military investigators."
Pankov’s reaction followed immediately: they say that within 15 minutes the press service of the Ministry of Defense, which is directly subordinate to Pankov, called the publication and rudely demanded that the material be removed. The information has been removed: today this article is no longer available on the page argumentiru.com/army/2012/12/222793. However, no matter how Pankov hurried, the journalists turned out to be quicker. The text of the Arguments of the Week article about the beginning of an investigation into Pankov’s machinations managed to spread across the Internet.
Pankov really has something to fear: on January 12, 2013, the anapa.info portal wrote: “Former Russian defense officer Anatoly Serdyukov may in the coming days become a suspect in a criminal case for exceeding or abusing official powers. In the near future, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation may open a new case based on the results of a pre-investigation check, including an analysis of all the work of the ex-minister.
In 2009, the Ministry of Defense made a request to deputies of the Anapa City Council to allocate land in the Bolshoi Utrish Nature Reserve in order to build a radar station in this area. At first, the deputies were in no hurry to transfer almost one hundred acres of land on the seashore to the defense department, so Deputy Minister of Defense General Pankov came to Anapa, explaining at a meeting of the City Council that the new station was needed in connection with the partial transfer of some services of the Black Sea Fleet to Russian territory.
Documentation for the construction of one of the cottages in "Bolshoy Utrish" with an area of 800 sq. m was discovered during a search of the CEO of the Slavyanka company, Alexander Elkin, accused in the Oboronservis case. The purpose of the object was not indicated in the project, but in the draft version it was called the “minister’s dacha.” The results of the audit give grounds to suspect the ex-minister of exceeding official powers (Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) or abuse of official powers (Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).”
Today Nikolai Pankov is trying to tell Minister Sergei Shoigu that Anatoly Serdyukov misled him, Pankov. They say that Pankov sincerely believed that a radar station would be built in Bolshoy Utrish, but this was the first time he had heard about Serdyukov’s dacha.
However, these attempts contradict not only common sense, but also facts. Nikolai Pankov, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, personally convinced Anapa deputies that this piece of land was vitally important for the country’s defense capability. “Because the Black Sea Fleet, located in Crimea, faces a partial relocation to Russian waters. This, of course, entails the construction of the necessary infrastructure. Nikolai Pankov assured that a radar installation would be erected on the allocated site,” the anapa.info portal wrote on November 17, 2009.
It is noteworthy that a well-informed city council member, ex-mayor of Anapa, Vitaly Astapenko then voted against this decision. “The Ministry of Defense says that it needs the site for defense purposes, but I have information that a recreation center for high-ranking officials will be built on this site,” Astapenko told deputies.
The deputies heard this statement from Astapenko, the media published it, but Pankov suddenly didn’t hear or notice it? And this is on an issue for which Pankov personally went to Anapa, and there he spoke to the deputies, demonstrating an excellent command of the plans of the Ministry of Defense? And after which Pankov was given several hectares of expensive land in the resort area by Anatoly Serdyukov?
And then for several more years Pankov stubbornly did not notice that the defense capability in this strategic (in his words) place was ensured by boathouses for yachts and swimming pools? But Pankov instantly saw the light when he saw the internal audit of his machinations appointed by Minister Shoigu.
Secretary of State Pankov is famous for his manner of lying convincingly. But, in this case, he is trying to save himself by telling Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu such ridiculous stories that it is embarrassing to even watch, let alone listen to.
Finally destroying Pankov’s fairy tale about “the honest and conscientious Secretary of State treacherously deceived by Minister Serdyukov” is the website “Fleet - XXI Century”, which wrote on August 25, 2011: “Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov flew to Anapa exactly ten times during the past months of 2011. Despite Despite the fact that the entire “garrison” of the resort town consists of one colonel and three majors, the minister really has serious, one might say, strategic interests in Anapa. This is ninety-three acres of land in Bolshoi Utrish, in the coastal sanitary zone.
Serdyukov informed the Anapa authorities last summer that this particular land was extremely necessary for the military department. The Ministry of Defense is ready to accept the site, worth at least half a billion rubles, free of charge. It is there, according to the original “legend,” that the new radar should be located, dramatically increasing the combat effectiveness of the Black Sea Fleet, which needs new infrastructure. It was precisely this version that Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov insisted on when presenting the “project” to the Anapa city council.
The picture was violated only by one deputy, former mayor Vitaly Astapenko, who voted “against”. According to information, he publicly stated: “A luxury housing complex will be built on this land for the recreation of high-ranking officials.” Experienced business executive Astapenko was clear: very soon the Roskadastre administration for the Krasnodar Territory transferred the site to the Ministry of Defense specifically for the construction of a recreation center. They didn’t remember about the radar anymore...”
Anyone who is more or less familiar with the structure of the Ministry of Defense understands that the goals and results of ten voyages of the immediate superior, Serdyukov, to Anapa, over the course of eight months, could not have been unknown to Pankov, for whom Anapa became, in fact, the site of the special operation “Naduy” deputy."
Pankov, who today is lying to the current Minister of Defense about how he “was not aware” of the scams of Serdyukov’s Ministry of Defense, apparently believes that Shoigu is not able to raise media publications on this issue and expose the lies of Serdyukov’s accomplice, who is rushing about in fear.
Meanwhile, there are no difficulties in this: Nikolai Pankov directly stated that he stands guard over the interests of Serdyukov’s team. This is evidenced by Olga Bozhyeva and Yulia Kalinina, journalists from the military department of Moskovsky Komsomolets, who back in 2007 prepared an article about a strange invasion of the Ministry of Defense by civilians with unclear powers, but the clear intention of stealing army property.
“This article was written in October 2007, but was not published. We, its authors, journalists of the military department of "MK" Olga Bozhyeva and Yulia Kalinina, then had the imprudence to contact the Ministry of Defense for comments, and as soon as the military department realized that such an article was being prepared, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel General Nikolai, came to the editorial office Pankov begged not to publish it, because it would harm Minister Serdyukov and his team, who had taken up the right thing - optimization and reform, which, of course, “many people don’t like,” so if journalists are patriots and for a strong army, then they should not play into the hands of the enemies.
Five years have passed since then. The situation with the enemies of the strong army has become more or less clear, and we decided that this article can already be published,” the journalists wrote today.
The handwriting of Nikolai Pankov is familiar, isn’t it? As soon as Serdyukov’s interests were threatened, Pankov appeared and began telling patriotic chants, which he used to cover up the machinations of his accomplices.
And there is no longer any doubt that Pankov was a full-fledged accomplice in Serdyukov’s team. Let us recall that the Secretary of State, Deputy Minister of Defense, General of the Army Nikolai Aleksandrovich Pankov, in addition to Pankov’s Radar Station, “noted” himself in leading roles in such high-profile corruption cases as the joint theft with Anatoly Serdyukov of antique bronze deer from the House of Officers in Rostov- on Don and vintage cars in Ryazan. Let us also recall that for an operation to deceive deputies in Anapa, Nikolai Pankov received several hectares of expensive Krasnodar land from Anatoly Serdyukov. However, Nikolai Pankov’s deception of the people on the basis of patriotic rhetoric, as well as attempts to deceive Minister Sergei Shoigu based on the thought “I was misled, but I innocently believed” is not the only line in Nikolai Pankov’s salvation of his chair, salary and “additional income” (media wrote that “If you don’t pay several million rubles to “Pankov’s people”, then even those who were supposed to become generals were not supposed to become one - regardless of which commander nominated for the rank”)
Pankov understands very well that it is not enough to talk about how good he is, but you need to find those on whom you can blame for the crimes and outrages that have been happening in the army over the past few years. And Pankov began to selflessly hand over his accomplices. If you listen to Pankov, then everyone is to blame except himself. Moreover, Pankov was forced to blame both his superiors and his subordinates. Serdyukov, it turns out, “misled” Pankov. Nikolai Pankov’s Ekaterina Priezzheva (former head of the Department of Education of the Ministry of Defense and Pankov’s direct subordinate) was solely to blame for the collapse of military education. The logic of Nikolai Pankov’s behavior suggests that, in the near future, Pankov and his faithful Sancho Panza Viktor Goremykin (head of the personnel department of the Ministry of Defense and also his direct subordinate) will surrender - after all, Pankov needs someone to hold him responsible for the mass dismissals of military generals from the army .
Only now, hardly anyone will believe that Army General, Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Aleksandrovich Pankov is a kind of oasis of purity and innocence in Serdyukov’s corrupt Ministry of Defense. Moreover, the oasis is completely ingenuous and even, perhaps, dull (what else could you call a person who for five years “saw nothing” and “understood nothing,” but accepted various kinds of offerings regularly?).
Even if we imagine for a moment that Pankov really is like that, the question will arise: who and why would they keep him there, and even share serious values with him?
In general, no matter what angle you look at it, Pankov’s logic doesn’t add up.
So people are perplexed: why is one of Serdyukov’s most important accomplices still in a key position in the Ministry of Defense? And the generals are perplexed: why is there still a person “on staff” in the Ministry of Defense who forced a huge number of military generals and officers to “voluntarily” leave the army, and at least “pushed” the obstinate people into positions with demotion?
The number of questions to State Secretary Pankov, to which there is not a single intelligible answer other than stating his corruption, is so great that it is developing into a new quality. Even journalists stop believing Pankov’s outwardly convincing but deceitful words. But the generals and the Minister of Defense did not even begin to believe him.
Considering that Sergei Shoigu is not only a talented manager and an honest person, but has also seen a lot of bureaucratic cunning people, the career of Serdyukov’s last accomplice, who still retains a key post in the Ministry of Defense - Nikolai Pankov - is close to ending.
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The reform system marked the beginning of a new look for the Russian Armed Forces. According to a survey by the Public Opinion Foundation, at the beginning of February, Sergei Shoigu is the most popular Russian minister: 68% of respondents fully approve of his first steps as head of the military department, which concerned the solution of tasks set several years earlier.
First of all, we are talking about the humanization of military service, which was started by Serdyukov. The personality of Anatoly Eduardovich, as well as his transformations, still cause ambiguous attitudes. However, the opinion that experts agree on is unanimous: the dismissed Minister of Defense managed to do a lot, and the reforms he started must be continued. “If it weren’t for the changes, the fate of our army would be sad,” says Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.
Transformations of the Armed Forces unfolded in several main directions at once. The staff of the army's central apparatus was reduced from 53 thousand to 5 thousand. The transition of military units to outsourcing, that is, their servicing by civilian commercial organizations, according to the editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine Igor Korotchenko, turned out to be the only solution. The relationship between the army and the military-industrial complex has also undergone dramatic changes. The new minister demanded transparent pricing from the defense industry. Similar and many other measures began to transform the Russian army into an improved fighting machine. It is quite obvious that one should not expect a sharp change in the course of army reform. At one of the meetings, the new Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu emphasized that he intends to continue work on modernizing the Armed Forces. Experts have already been able to evaluate such initiatives of the new Minister of Defense as the abandonment of foot wraps and hats with earflaps. The discussion also focused on the requirement to install glass shower cabins http://steklo-profi.ru/dushevie-kabini.html in the barracks. The new uniform that soldiers will wear in 2014 should provide military personnel with maximum protection and comfort.
Everyone was able to discuss these and other issues at the press conference “Current State of the Russian Army,” organized by RIA Novosti. While military experts and analysts were summing up the results, journalists were painstakingly typing away at their computer keyboards, sending finished materials to their editorial offices. Within a few hours, information reports were presented to interested readers. In order to create an objective tone, the sharks of the pen cited bilateral opinions, but for the most part the materials boiled down to the main idea - the new head of the military department is actively continuing the main military reforms begun by his predecessor Anatoly Serdyukov.
However, some publications, forgetting about journalistic ethics, resorted to the principles of behind-the-scenes games. It is noteworthy that it was their attention that was attracted by the round table initiated by the Communist Party faction. Many of the accredited news agencies position themselves as radical opposition... The “yellow” press, fueled by the support of interested parties, decided to inflate their scandalous version of the events taking place in the Ministry of Defense. The collected negativity and distorted facts made it possible for individual representatives of the journalistic profession to stage entire military operations in the vastness of the military department, thereby exposing their unprofessionalism. The absurdity of such attacks is quite obvious. The military leadership, led by the Minister of Defense and a close-knit team of professionals such as the head of the main personnel department of the Ministry of Defense V. Goremykin, State Secretary General N. Pankov, Deputy Minister of Defense General D. Bulgakov, has outlined a clear course for increasing the potential and power of the Russian army . Contrary to the forecasts of some scribblers, minor changes in no way affected the personnel policy of the Ministry of Defense as a whole. Sergei Shoigu, like no one else, understands that only true experts in military affairs will help him overcome minor difficulties and continue the program to implement the reform system.
Pankov Nikolai Aleksandrovich - Russian statesman, Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Income, property
The amount of declared income for 2011 amounted to 2.643 million rubles.
Property:
- Residential building (individual property) - area 193.5 sq.m., Russia.
- Land plot (individual property) - area 1500 sq.m., Russia.
- Apartment (free use) - area 157 sq.m., Russia.
- Motor vehicle Yamaha ATV (individual property).
- Flatbed trailer (individual property).
Biography
Education
1980 - graduated from the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, served in this higher educational institution.
1989 - graduated from full-time graduate school at the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky.
Scientific degree, academic title
Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor.
Military service
1974 - 1976 - conscript military service in the border detachment of the North-Western Border District.
Career
1989 - 1994 - teaching and scientific work.
1994 - 1997 - Scientific Secretary of the Academy of the Ministry of Security, Academy of the FSB.
1997 - 1998 - Head of the Administration of the Federal Border Service of Russia.
1998 - 2001 - Head of the Staff of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
April - July 2001 - Head of the Administration of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
July 2001 - June 2002 - Head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
June 2002 - October 2004 - Deputy Minister of Defense for Personnel.
October 2004 - September 2005 - Head of the Personnel and Educational Work Service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Since September 2005 - Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.
March 30, 2009 - dismissed from military service and transferred to the rank of federal civil servants while retaining the position of Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Nikolay Pankov: on increasing the number of contract soldiers in the Russian army
Since 2005 - member of the Board of Directors (supervisory board) of OJSC "TV and Radio Company of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "ZVEZDA".
Acting State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 1st class.
Acting State Councilor 2nd class.
Member of the CSKA Board of Trustees.
Awards
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, medals.
Lawmaking and social work
Prepares proposals for the government of the Russian Federation to amend various outdated military laws, monitors the implementation of federal legislation on the Armed Forces, regularly participates in meetings of the State Duma, Federation Council, and government, and considers numerous parliamentary requests sent to the military department.
Marital status
Married, has a son.
Notes
- Information on income, property and property-related liabilities of military personnel and federal civil servants of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and members of their families for the period from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011.
- Pankov Nikolay Alexandrovich. Official Internet resource of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
- By 2013, the Russian Ministry of Defense will have 10 systemically important universities
- General Pankov was appointed Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia
- Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 17, 2011 No. 814 “On assigning the class rank of the state civil service of the Russian Federation to N.A. Pankov”
- Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of April 30, 2010 No. 525 “On the assignment of class ranks of the state civil service of the Russian Federation to federal state civil servants of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation”
- Nikolay Pankov - Chairman of the Board of Trustees of PBC CSKA
Nikolai Pankov was born on December 2, 1954 in the village of Maryino, Kostroma region. In 1974 he was called up for military service in the Armed Forces. He served in the border troops of the USSR, in the North-Western Border District. After being transferred to the reserve in 1976, he entered the service of the USSR State Security Committee.
In 1980, Pankov graduated from the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky. Remained at the school for teaching work, where he completed his postgraduate studies, after nine years of practice. Received the academic degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences. In 1994, he took up the post of scientific secretary of the Academy of the FSB of the Russian Federation.
From 1997 to 1998, he was the head of the Administration of the Federal Border Service of the Russian Federation. Then, for three years he served as chief of staff of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
In April 2001, in the team of S. B. Ivanov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich was transferred to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to the position of head of the Ministry’s Administration. In July 2001, he was appointed head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Since June 2002, he was promoted to the position of Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation for Personnel, Head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense. While in this post, he oversaw the entire system of higher educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense.
By decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated June 12, 2004, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Pankov was solemnly awarded the military rank of Army General.
In October 2004, he was appointed head of the Personnel and Educational Service of the Ministry of Defense. Since September 2005, he has been State Secretary of the Ministry of Defense and Deputy Minister of Defense. Pankov is in charge of the Main Directorate of Personnel, the Main Directorate of Educational Work, and the Main Directorate of Civil Service of the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to his official duties, he carries out general management of the Military University, the Military Institute of Physical Culture and a number of pre-university educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
In the spring of 2009, the army general was discharged from military service and transferred to the rank of federal civil servants while retaining the position of Secretary of State, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Nikolai Alexandrovich was awarded the highest class rank of federal civil servant. Since June 17, 2011, he has been a full-time state adviser of the Russian Federation, 1st class.
In November 2012, Anatoly Serdyukov was appointed to the post of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Since April 15, 2015, he has headed the supervisory board of the Central Army Sports Club.
Nikolai Alexandrovich has many awards: Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree; Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree; Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree; Order of Alexander Nevsky, Order of Honor; USSR medals; medals of the Russian Federation. He is a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov in the field of literature and art.
