- Anatoliy Nogovitsyn
Anatoliy Alekseevich Nogovitsyn ( _ru. Анатолий Алексеевич Ноговицын; born
29 April 1952 ,Baryshevka village,Borodilikhinskiy rayon ,Semipalatinsk oblast , Kazakh SSR) is the Deputy Chief ofGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ,Colonel General , most known for being the primary spokesman of the Russian Armed Forces during2008 South Ossetia War and for warningPoland about the possibility of anuclear strike on15 August 2008 after an agreement reached between theUnited States of America andPoland on14 August 2008 about hosting part of a US missile defense shield inPoland . PresidentDmitry Medvedev later stressed down thenuclear attack threats againstPoland .Biography
In 1973 he graduated with honors from Armavir Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots ( _ru. Армавирское высшее военное авиационное училище лётчиков).
External links
* [http://lenta.ru/lib/14190911/ Biography of Nogovitsyn from Lentapedia]
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/after-georgia-moscow-issues-nuclear-warning-to-poland-898990.html After Georgia, Moscow issues nuclear warning to Poland, The Independent, Saturday, 16 August 2008]
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