MOSCOW. Oct 8 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Air Force Commander Vladimir Mikhailov has been appointed chairman of the CIS air defense coordination committee, Deputy Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Yuri Bondarev said on Tuesday.
"The decision to appoint Mikhailov was authorized at a session of the CIS Heads of State Council in Chisinau on October 7," Bondarev told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Mikhailov's successor, Anatoly Kornukov, was freed from his duties due to his retirement from the Russian Armed Forces.