Profile: Russia's new military chief Valery Gerasimov

During his time in Chechnya, he was personally involved in the arrest of Yury Budanov, an army colonel later convicted for the murder of a Chechen girl. That led journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a vocal critic of the Chechen conflict who was murdered in 2006, to describe him as "a man who was able to preserve an officer's honour" during the war.

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