MOSCOW, April 19 (AVN) - Ex-defence minister Army General Pavel Grachev has been elected president of the regional Airborne Combat Brotherhood airborne troops support fund, the Military News Agency learned on Wednesday.
The fund has been organised by the Antei Corporation, the inter-regional airborne veterans organisation, and the Runa-S company.
The main aim of the new fund is helping and supporting the Airborne, providing aid to wounded servicemen, the disabled, and families of the killed, reserve Major-General Pyotr Shemetilo, chairman of the inter-regional airborne veterans organisation, told the Agency.
Ex-defence minister will remain the president of the fund for two years. At the moment Grachev is occupying the post of the Rosvoorouzhenie state company military advisor.