Viktor Baranets was born on November 10, 1946 in the city of Barvenkovo, Kharkov region of Ukraine. In the Armed Forces - since 1965. In 1970 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Lviv Higher Military-Political School, and in 1978 - the editorial department of the Military-Political Academy named after V.I. Lenin. Military registration specialty - "military journalist with higher education».
Served in Ukraine Far East and in the Western Group Soviet troops in Germany. While serving in the Far East, he was a correspondent for the divisional and district newspapers, then for the newspaper of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany "Soviet Army".
Since 1983 he served in Moscow in a military magazine. He was a correspondent, department head and deputy editor-in-chief of the Kommunist Armed Forces magazine.
At the end of 1986, as a military correspondent for the magazine, he was on a business trip to Afghanistan, was in the war zone, which he talked about in his reports and books. Like all military journalists who worked on the Afghan war, he was given the status of a participant afghan war, as evidenced by the documents of the Main Personnel Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense.
In May 1991, he became an assistant to the head of the Chief political management Soviet army and Navy USSR Armed Forces, Three months later, the August putsch took place.
He worked as a military observer for the Pravda newspaper. He was an expert adviser to the chief of the General Staff, head of the information and analytical department, head of the information department of the Russian Ministry of Defense. He was awarded the Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree and many commemorative medals.
As a military observer, he worked in the combat zone and in other "hot spots", in particular, in Chechnya and Dagestan. Published a series of reports from the battlefield in Komsomolskaya Pravda.
In 1996, when General of the Army I.N. Rodionov was appointed Minister of Defense of Russia, he invited Barants to the position of his press secretary.
“We were not paid wages for three to five months. And in the army - six months !!! Officers' wives in the garrisons were already cooking quinoa soup so that children and husbands would not die of hunger! Once, when I was walking along the corridor, a secretary ensign called out to me: “Comrade Colonel, go down to the basement, get a loaf of bread and six cans of sprats in tomato sauce.” This was my paycheck. These words, sounded in the echoing corridor of the General Staff, literally froze me.
Since 1998, he has been working in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper as a military observer. The main topics of publications: military analytics, military-patriotic education, problems of military development, the course of military reform, exposure of corruption, social protection of military personnel and their families, helping people in solving everyday issues. After the creation in 2009 of radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda" there is the author's program "Military Review of Colonel Barants" and "Audiobook of Viktor Barants".
Since November 2007, he has been running a blog called "A Man with a Gun". Until 2012, he sharply criticized the President Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and his team for the fact that the program for providing dismissed military personnel with housing is not being implemented and monetary allowances are not paid on time.
In 2011, on December 15, during a “straight line” with Vladimir Putin, he asked him why the government’s promise to provide housing for all dismissed officers by the end of 2010 had not been fulfilled, why the head of the Cabinet of Ministers was “afraid” to dismiss ministers who failed to work on their plots.
In January 2012, Viktor Baranets became a confidant of Vladimir Putin in the Russian presidential elections in March 2012. Played an active role in election campaign, participating on the side of Putin during the debate in the media. On March 1, 2012, he published in the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper a campaign material “Why I choose Putin”, in which he argued that other contenders for the presidency do not have such rich experience in governing the country and therefore they cannot be trusted with the captain's bridge.
In one of the radio broadcasts, he said that he supported Alexei Navalny's fight against corruption in Russia. He is the author of the books Yeltsin and His Generals, The Lost Army, The General Staff Without Secrets, The Russian Army - Defender or Victim?, telling about the behind-the-scenes life of the military department in the post-Soviet years.
Laureate of the "Golden Pen of Russia" award of the Union of Journalists of Russia and awards of the Union of Journalists of Moscow, "Dignity" award named after Artem Borovik, awards of the USSR Ministry of Defense.
He welcomed the appointment of S.K. Shoigu as the Minister of Defense of Russia, calling it "the best personnel decision of the president."
By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin No. 1021 dated July 18, 2012, Viktor Baranets joined the Council for Public Television of the Russian Federation.
Is a member public councils under the Ministry of Defense and under the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation.
He is also a member of the Presidium of the All-Russian public organization Russian Officers.
To the question Why were the commander of the Airborne Forces and the head of the GRU arrested? given by the author Saiduk the best answer is Star to General Shamanov
06.06.2012 - 13:16
The correspondent of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" Viktor BARANETS in his blog "The Man with a Gun" told how Vladimir Shamanov was awarded the epaulettes of Colonel General.
... After another thrashing that Putin inflicted on the leadership of the Ministry of Defense for an unsuitable solution to the housing problem (the girlfriend warned by Serdyukov, the head of JO Shevtsova, "did not deign" to appear before the eyes of the VVP, so as not to personally receive mandules, did not appear at the meeting).
And finishing the meeting, Putin said:
And now for the pleasant...
The general tensed and held his breath:
- By my decision, the commander of the Airborne Forces Shamanov was awarded another title"colonel general" The decree will arrive soon ... I congratulate Vladimir Anatolyevich, which I advise you too ...
The Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff, after these words, dropped their jaws on their knees. They had the appearance of people who appeared naked on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater in the midst of a performance ...
After all, the presentation to the president was not sent to the Kremlin. On the contrary, both Serdyukov and Makarov did everything to ensure that there was no such representation. At first, they answered the Kremlin personnel officer that Shamanov had not been reprimanded for last year's scandal, then, with a gnashing of teeth, Serdyukov nevertheless quietly removed him, but did not raise the issue. What Nikolai Yegorovich rejoiced indescribably ...
Serdyukov and Makarov left the office with such faces as if they had been announced their resignation. Both were clearly in a state of shock...
The next day, the minister held a meeting at his place to discuss the tasks set by the Supreme. After a tedious debriefing, the meeting came to an end.
Mindful of the President's request and military traditions, Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Aleksandrovich Pankov took out the Colonel General's new epaulettes from his folder and handed them to Serdyukov, whispering something. Serdyukov took the shoulder straps, frowned, and then threw them away from him. Declared the meeting closed. And left.
The situation was saved by Pankov. He congratulated Shamanov and handed him shoulder straps. And Putin did not forget to congratulate Shamanov...
My longtime spiritual friend and colleague then said to me:
- Serdyukov has already become insolent to the point that he no longer puts Putin in anything ... Maybe he obeys Obama or Medvedev? A minister may not love or even hate a subordinate, but only a redneck can behave like that at such moments ...
And I agreed with him.
According to the materials "Blog Okrug"
Answer from hospitality[guru]
They did not salute Serdukov.
Answer from Vadim Kmit[newbie]
Are you lying? Give me a link please.
Answer from Eurovision[guru]
And for what?
Answer from Sweep[guru]
He shot at Chubais, missed a little guy))
Answer from Andrey Rudenko[guru]
the average life expectancy of a soldier on the battlefield is 3 minutes, a tank is 8 minutes .. . It means the time of commanders has come.
Viktor Nikolaevich Baranets(born November 10, 1946, Barvenkovo, Kharkov region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) - Soviet and Russian military journalist, publicist, writer.
Military columnist for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, retired colonel.
Viktor Baranets was born on November 10, 1946 in the city of Barvenkovo, Kharkov region, Ukrainian SSR.
In the Armed Forces - since 1965 (cadet of a training tank regiment).
In 1970 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Lviv Higher Military-Political School, and in 1978 - the editorial department of the Military-Political Academy named after V. I. Lenin. Military specialty(VUS) - "a military journalist with a higher education" (as written in the diploma).
He served in Ukraine, the Far East and in the Western Group of Soviet Forces (ZGV) in Germany.
While serving in the Far East, he was a correspondent for the divisional and district newspapers, then for the newspaper of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany "Soviet Army" (major).
Since 1983 he served in Moscow in a military magazine. He was a correspondent, department head and deputy editor-in-chief of the Kommunist Armed Forces magazine.
At the end of 1986, as a war correspondent for the magazine, he was on a business trip in Afghanistan, was in a combat zone, which he talked about in his reports and books. Like all military journalists who worked in the Afghan war, he was given the status of a participant in the Afghan war, as evidenced by the documents of the Main Personnel Directorate (GUK) of the USSR Ministry of Defense.
In May 1991, he became an assistant to the head of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy of the USSR Armed Forces (“Glavpur”). Three months later, the August putsch took place. About this time he remembered:
“And my trip to the referents ended with the fact that at night, as a White Guard officer during the October Revolution, I tore off the sign from my door, waiting for the arrival of the Bolsheviks. In those days, Glavpur announced hornet's nest communist regime and we heard rumors of an imminent arrest. At night, I stood in a 50-meter line to the "morgue" (as we called the smoking oven in which they burned documents) with my pood of letters. And by the light of the stove I looked into some of them. I remember the ensign's letter. He wrote to the head of Glavpur that his wife died in a car accident, and he was left with three children. And the financier does not pay him benefits. And he begged for help. And the sweeping visa of my boss on the letter: “Comrade. Barants, immediately investigate and report. I stood in this night line and thought: “What did I do so bad in this world that AiF put me on the list of those who need to be arrested in the first place?!”.Viktor Baranets
He worked as a military observer for the Pravda newspaper. He was an expert adviser to the Chief of the General Staff (General of the Army V. N. Lobov), head of the information and analytical department, head of the information department of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Awarded the Order "For Service to the Motherland in Armed Forces USSR "III degree and many commemorative medals.
As a military observer, he worked in the combat zone and in other "hot spots", in particular, in Chechnya and Dagestan. Published a series of reports from the battlefield in Komsomolskaya Pravda.
In 1996, when General of the Army I. N. Rodionov was appointed Minister of Defense of Russia, he invited Barants to the position of his press secretary. He noted that the Kremlin "sentenced" the Minister of Defense:
“We were not paid wages for three to five months. And in the army - six months !!! Officers' wives in the garrisons were already cooking quinoa soup so that children and husbands would not die of hunger! Once, when I was walking along the corridor, a secretary ensign called out to me: “Comrade Colonel, go down to the basement, get a loaf of bread and six cans of sprats in tomato sauce.” This was my paycheck. These words, sounded in the echoing corridor of the General Staff, literally froze me.<…>I came to the "nuclear" department, where strategists worked on plans for the use nuclear weapons, and they stank of borscht. People cooked food right in their offices. Colonels and even generals "shot" each other's cigarettes. And I realized what to give last Stand", go to" suicide "- if only the authorities once again heard the voice of a man in uniform."Well-known blogger, "man with a gun", military observer " Komsomolskaya Pravda" retired Colonel Viktor Baranets live asked questions to Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Baranets: Good luck, Vladimir Vladimirovich!
Vladimir Putin: Hello!
Vladimir Baranets: Vladimir Vladimirovich, I have already witnessed your tenth conversation with the people. And now I am often visited by the thought that those who do not want to save V. Putin from mistakes, he sprinkles him with compliments, and those who want to save him tell him the merciless, "salty truth." So, I am one of them.
V. Putin: With beer well salted truth.
V. Baranets: Vladimir Vladimirovich, recently, speaking at the Congress " United Russia", You said words that eclipsed even the classics of Marxism and Leninism. I will repeat them to you. These are magnificent words. You said: "Our policy should be based on the truth and only the truth". But now the crux of the matter.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin told the army and Russia many times that the housing problem for retired servicemen would be closed by 2010. The problem is not closed.Not a single minister has apologized to dozens of people, who were essentially deceived, and you have not apologized either.
Do you think it is necessary to make such apologies to people and tell them honest, objective terms, when will this problem really be closed?
And the second. Vladimir Vladimirovich, you just said good words. You said, that " we appoint ministers", and you showed it to the audience. Yes, this is wonderful. For me, this is fundamental, new. But, nevertheless, Vladimir Vladimirovich, well, let's not dissemble - you appoint ministers. Many of them...
Vladimir Putin: And the President too.
Vladimir Baranets: I am addressing you as a candidate for the President of the Russian Federation.
Vladimir Vladimirovich, it is quite clear that a number of ministers have failed in their work in strategic directions. This applies to the economy, health care, and the army. However, Vladimir Vladimirovich, You have not yet given a very sharp critical assessment of the work of these ministers. Why are you afraid to change them?
Vladimir Vladimirovich, if you remove mediocrity and throw talented, principled ministers into battle, believe me, the people will be drawn to you, the reforms will go forward.
Vladimir Vladimirovich, I am finishing my long speech and I want to tell you that you have already been told many times why don't you change mediocre, unprincipled ministers, who, by the way, are deceiving you. After all, you were set up when you said that the problem with housing for the dismissed would be closed. You've been framed. This state crime is not only against you, Vladimir Vladimirovich. You must draw your own conclusions from this.
But If you have problems with the selection of personnel, please contact us, we will help, including me.
Vladimir Putin: What ministerial post would you apply for yourself?
V.Baranets: I ended my position as press secretary of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Igor Nikolaevich Rodionov. But I would be happy to work for you in the control bodies, and you would not make a mistake with me even in a comma, and you would not fool the people. I would be ready to work, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
Vladimir Putin: Clearly. It's our way.
Apparently, L. Roshal persuaded you about the ministers, right? He also has claims to some ministers. Leonid Mikhailovich, right?
When you started talking about the fact that you want to convey the truth to me, I even thought about it, I think that it will be said there now.
Regarding housing for the military. You can't help but know that before we got into this problem, it was, in fact, virtually untouched by anyone. People were simply not given housing. The queue only grew, and grew catastrophically, and some of the people who were fired there in the 90s, they were generally merged into municipal queues and said: hello hot, get it there. And there are their own waiting lists, which have been standing for decades, and that's it - they have been forgotten about.
What actually happened?In fact, it was said, and I am talking about this, that we will close the problem by the end of 2010, on which I based myself.
They brought me the figures of standing in lines, needy and dismissed officers in the country of 70 thousand people.
Based on these needs, an instruction was given to the Ministry of Finance and Economy to calculate the possibilities of the budget and allocate the resources necessary for this volume of housing for the corresponding years in advance, which was done, 70 thousand needy.
In 2008, 10 thousand apartments were purchased and issued, in 2009 it was 56 thousand apartments, in 2010 45 thousand apartments. If you add it all up, it turns out over 100, and there were 70 in line. And in this sense, not only did we not cheat anyone, but we overfulfilled this task.
What is the problem? There are two of them. First, it turned out that records in the Ministry of Defense were kept very badly, and it turned out that not 70,000, but 150,000 were on the waiting list. This, you know, is the same thing when we said that we would provide veterans of the Great Patriotic War separate apartments, they started with 10-12 thousand, then they said, we will put everyone on the waiting list, who was not put before March 1, 2005. And then they told me that it would be another 10-15 thousand. More than a hundred! More than a hundred, you know!
And it is necessary to immediately include resources, and money, and, most importantly, what is very important, opportunities construction market. At the first stage, even more money was allocated than was necessary, but it was simply not possible to purchase such a number of apartments from the market - it was necessary according to the parameters required by law for military personnel - they simply were not on the market. And it is impossible to build in one month. Therefore, the Ministry of Defense took the path of building new housing, launched this construction, and very seriously. This is the first problem.
The second problem is what last years The Ministry of Defense is taking certain steps, and this is no longer directly connected with the Government, to carry out the so-called military reform, and the number of released military personnel has slightly increased. And this also increased the number of those in need.
And all this, by the way, and the crisis, which also affected the volume of funding, in general, even despite the crisis, we allocated the money that was planned, we will definitely solve this problem. I think that by 2012 we will have closed all the problems associated with permanent housing, and around the end of 2013 we will close the issues related to corporate housing. And, of course, we will bring it to its logical conclusion, as experts say, We will supply all military personnel with apartments that were standing in municipal queues. We just remembered them, we just forgot about them. And I said, no, this is wrong, unfair, we must return and fulfill our obligations to these people. And we will also close this problem and we will definitely do it.
So that's the truth, that's the way it is.
Now about the ministers. You know, they are always, just like many governors, at the forefront of criticism and at the forefront of problems, and it is very easy to make a "scapegoat" out of each of these people. But I am also responsible for what is happening in these areas, and I personally, as Prime Minister. This is the first.
Second. These are qualified people. The issues they deal with are complex and do not tolerate unambiguous approaches. You can argue about something, you can blame something, but the worst thing we could do is engage in personnel reshuffling. And this happened in our recent history too.
I already have a certain work experience, and I know what personnel leapfrog is and what it leads to. It is only necessary to replace one leader with another, it is still unknown what the result will be, and for at least six months the department will not work, at least six months. Changes will begin immediately. Nightmare! Our task, if people make mistakes in something, is to organize the work in such a way as to avoid these mistakes.
As for rotation, we have already talked about it. The time will come, and, of course, without any doubt, the future Government needs to be updated, and this update will be.
A well-known blogger, "a man with a gun", a military observer for Komsomolskaya Pravda, retired colonel Viktor Baranets, asked Vladimir Putin questions live.
Vladimir Baranets: Good luck, Vladimir Vladimirovich!
Vladimir Putin: Hello!
Vladimir Baranets: Vladimir Vladimirovich, I have already witnessed your tenth conversation with the people. And now I am often visited by the thought that those who do not want to save V. Putin from mistakes, he sprinkles him with compliments, and those who want to save him tell him the merciless, "salty truth." So, I am one of them.
V. Putin: With beer well salted truth.
V. Baranets: Vladimir Vladimirovich, recently, speaking at the United Russia Congress, you said words that eclipsed even the classics of Marxism and Leninism. I will repeat them to you. These are great words. You said: "Our policy should be based on the truth and only the truth". But now the crux of the matter.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin told the army and Russia many times that the housing problem for retired servicemen would be closed by 2010. The problem is not closed.Not a single minister has apologized to dozens of people, who were essentially deceived, and you have not apologized either.
Do you think it is necessary to make such apologies to people and tell them honest, objective terms, when will this problem really be closed?
And the second. Vladimir Vladimirovich, you just said good words. You said, that " we appoint ministers", and you showed it to the audience. Yes, this is wonderful. For me, this is fundamental, new. But, nevertheless, Vladimir Vladimirovich, well, let's not dissemble - you appoint ministers. Many of them...
Vladimir Putin: And the President too.
Vladimir Baranets: I am addressing you as a candidate for the President of the Russian Federation.
Vladimir Vladimirovich, it is quite clear that a number of ministers have failed in their work in strategic directions. This applies to the economy, health care, and the army. However, Vladimir Vladimirovich, You have not yet given a very sharp critical assessment of the work of these ministers. Why are you afraid to change them?
Vladimir Vladimirovich, if you remove mediocrity and throw talented, principled ministers into battle, believe me, the people will be drawn to you, the reforms will go forward.
Vladimir Vladimirovich, I am finishing my long speech and I want to tell you that you have already been told many times why don't you change mediocre, unprincipled ministers, who, by the way, are deceiving you. After all, you were set up when you said that the problem with housing for the dismissed would be closed. You've been framed. This state crime is not only against you, Vladimir Vladimirovich. You must draw your own conclusions from this.
But If you have problems with the selection of personnel, please contact us, we will help, including me.
Vladimir Putin: What ministerial post would you apply for yourself?
V.Baranets: I ended my position as press secretary of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Igor Nikolaevich Rodionov. But I would be happy to work for you in the control bodies, and you would not make a mistake with me even in a comma, and you would not fool the people. I would be ready to work, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
Vladimir Putin: Clearly. It's our way.
Apparently, L. Roshal persuaded you about the ministers, right? He also has claims to some ministers. Leonid Mikhailovich, right?
When you started talking about the fact that you want to convey the truth to me, I even thought about it, I think that it will be said there now.
Regarding housing for the military. You can't help but know that before we got into this problem, it was, in fact, virtually untouched by anyone. People were simply not given housing. The queue only grew, and grew catastrophically, and some of the people who were fired there in the 90s, they were generally merged into municipal queues and said: hello hot, get it there. And there are their own waiting lists, which have been standing for decades, and that's it - they have been forgotten about.
What actually happened?In fact, it was said, and I am talking about this, that we will close the problem by the end of 2010, on which I based myself.
They brought me the figures of standing in lines, needy and dismissed officers in the country of 70 thousand people.
Based on these needs, an instruction was given to the Ministry of Finance and Economy to calculate the possibilities of the budget and allocate the resources necessary for this volume of housing for the corresponding years in advance, which was done, 70 thousand needy.
In 2008, 10 thousand apartments were purchased and issued, in 2009 it was 56 thousand apartments, in 2010 45 thousand apartments. If you add it all up, it turns out over 100, and there were 70 in line. And in this sense, not only did we not cheat anyone, but we overfulfilled this task.
What is the problem? There are two of them. First, it turned out that records in the Ministry of Defense were kept very badly, and it turned out that not 70,000, but 150,000 were on the waiting list. This, you know, is the same when we said that we would provide veterans of the Great Patriotic War with separate apartments, we started with 10-12 thousand, then we said, we will put everyone on the waiting list who was not put before March 1, 2005. And then they told me that it would be another 10-15 thousand. More than a hundred! More than a hundred, you know!
And it is necessary to immediately turn on the resources, and money, and, most importantly, what is very important, the possibilities of the construction market. At the first stage, even more money was allocated than was necessary, but it was simply not possible to purchase such a number of apartments from the market - it was necessary according to the parameters required by law for military personnel - they simply were not on the market. And it is impossible to build in one month. Therefore, the Ministry of Defense took the path of building new housing, launched this construction, and very seriously. This is the first problem.
The second problem is that in recent years the Ministry of Defense has been taking certain steps, and this is no longer directly connected with the Government, to carry out the so-called military reform, and the number of released military personnel has slightly increased. And this also increased the number of those in need.
And all this, by the way, and the crisis, which also affected the volume of funding, in general, even despite the crisis, we allocated the money that was planned, we will definitely solve this problem. I think that by 2012 we will have closed all the problems associated with permanent housing, and around the end of 2013 we will close the issues related to corporate housing. And, of course, we will bring it to its logical conclusion, as experts say, We will supply all military personnel with apartments that were standing in municipal queues. We just remembered them, we just forgot about them. And I said, no, this is wrong, unfair, we must return and fulfill our obligations to these people. And we will also close this problem and we will definitely do it.
So that's the truth, that's the way it is.
Now about the ministers. You know, they are always, just like many governors, at the forefront of criticism and at the forefront of problems, and it is very easy to make a "scapegoat" out of each of these people. But I am also responsible for what is happening in these areas, and I personally, as Prime Minister. This is the first.
Second. These are qualified people. The issues they deal with are complex and do not tolerate unambiguous approaches. You can argue about something, you can blame something, but the worst thing we could do is engage in personnel reshuffling. And this happened in our recent history too.
I already have a certain work experience, and I know what personnel leapfrog is and what it leads to. It is only necessary to replace one leader with another, it is still unknown what the result will be, and for at least six months the department will not work, at least six months. Changes will begin immediately. Nightmare! Our task, if people make mistakes in something, is to organize the work in such a way as to avoid these mistakes.
As for rotation, we have already talked about it. The time will come, and, of course, without any doubt, the future Government needs to be updated, and this update will be.
