Auditor --- PISKUNOV, Aleksandr
Aleksandrovich, Maj-Gen (res) (Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, 4 Jul 03).
- ["Piskunov was born in
1951 in Taganrog in Rostov Oblast. He completed the Military
Academy imeni F.E. Dzerzhinskiy in the field of military engineer and
radio technician, and off-campus graduate studies at the same
academy. He completed training at the Financial Academy of the
Government of the RF and business school in London. He served
in the military at the State Test Range (Plesetsk Cosmodrome) from 1974 to
1990. He was a people's deputy of the RSFSR from 1990 to 1991,
and deputy chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet Commission for
Communications, Information Sciences, and Space, and then the Committee
for Defense and Security. He became chairman of the Committee
for Military-Technical Policy of the RF Ministry of Defense in November
1993, and a deputy to the State Duma and deputy chairman of the RF Federal
Assembly State Duma Committee for Defense in December. He was
deputy manager and manager of an administrative department in the apparatus
of the RF government in 1995, and deputy chairman of the commission for
military-industrial matters of the RF government. He has been
an auditor at the RF Comptroller's Office since 2001. He heads
up the area of monitoring federal budget expenditures for national
defense. He is a member of the Council for Foreign and Defense
Policy. He holds the military rank of major-general of the
reserve" (Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, 4 Jul 03).]