Major General of the Medical Service Alexander Fisun removed from leadership of the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. It is reported by the Telegram channel "

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Information about the beginning of an administrative investigation regarding the leadership of the Military Administration of the Fontanka publication was confirmed by several sources. According to them, the Ministry of Defense is preparing a submission addressed to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on the dismissal of Fisun.

On the outbreak of disease among students of BMA them. Kirov became known at the beginning of the week. On April 20, the Ministry of Defense confirmed the presence of the causative agent of a new coronavirus infection among cadets of the faculty for training doctors for foreign armies.

The leadership of the academy did not comment on the situation;

a ban on the disclosure of information was also established for cadets whose conversations were controlled by the command of the university and the state security organs. For diversion threatened with disciplinary and criminal liability.

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, d. , Professor Alexander Fisun took the post of head of the Naval Aviation University. Kirov in February 2018. He previously headed the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense.