NOVOSIBIRSK, April 23 (AVN) - A commission of the Defence Ministry started inspecting the Novosibirsk Military Institute on Monday, the Military News Agency learned.
The commission's main aim is to find out whether the institute's study programmes and material base help train highly professional officers. The institute specialises in training motorised rifle platoon commanders, as well as agents of military and special intelligence.
The inspectors will round up their work in the institute on Wednesday. The same day, commission head Colonel General Igor Puzanov, state secretary and deputy defence minister, will arrive at the establishment. Puzanov is currently in Alma-Ata where he is attending a meeting of deputy defence and foreign ministers of the Collective Security Treaty member nations. While he is away the commission is supervised by Lieutenant General Anatoly Sidorenko, head of the Defence Ministry department for military education.