Ulava Dagestan Sergey Melikov announced the appointment of Rustam Muradov (former commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent temporarily posted in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan) as commander of the Eastern Military District.
“Our fellow countryman, Hero of Russia, Rustam Usmanovich Muradov, was appointed commander of the Eastern Military District – one of the country’s most powerful military districts of the military districts,” Melikov wrote in his telegram channel.