- Video has emerged showing one part of nine-month training programme
- It shows a civil servant in army fatigues lying face-down on a mat in Moscow
- An armoured vehicle then drives over him before he gets up and moves away
- Programme is designed to test ‘military strength and readiness for defence’
Civil servants in most countries are taught how to make a power-point presentation, write a briefing and even – in health-and-safety-mad Britain – adjust a chair.
In Russia they are driven over by tanks, thrown out of planes and taught how to shoot machine guns and throw grenades.
A video has emerged showing one part of their gruelling nine-month training programme.
It shows a civil servant in army fatigues lying face-down on a mat while an armoured vehicle drives over him in Moscow.
A video has emerged showing one part of Russian civil servant’s gruelling nine-month training programme
The video shows a civil servant in army fatigues lying face-down on a mat while an armoured vehicle drives over him in Moscow
The man then gets up and walks away from the mat after the truck has driven over him
He lies motionless between the wheels of the huge machine as it rumbles over his head.
In another exercise near Sochi on the Black Sea where candidates jumped off cliffs into pools of swirling water.
The programme which is divided into eight sections and takes civil servants to Malaysia and Singapore is devised by the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).
The first part of the programme took place in June, with the last expected in February.
The program tests the candidates’ ‘military strength and readiness for defence,’ one anonymous participant was quoted as saying.
He lies motionless between the wheels of the huge machine as it rumbles over his head
One former liberal MP in Russia blasted the training, saying: ‘Does the Kremlin not realise this looks like idiocy? And is idiocy.’
But some of the less fit pen-pushers struggle. One told RBK news agency: ‘After the parachuting three people went home with leg injuries and one with a bad back.’
One former liberal MP in Russia blasted the training, saying: ‘Does the Kremlin not realise this looks like idiocy? And is idiocy.’
The future leaders are also expected to attend team-building events and lectures by top government officials and CEOs including Sberbank CEO German Gref, oil giant Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin and oligarch Alisher Usmanov.
Ahead of presidential elections next March, President Vladimir Putin has shown the door to at least 20 regional governors, with more expected to be axed.
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