Is it true that the spokesman Shoigu became Major General at 26?

The Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu has a press secretary of Russians Markovskaya. And in different social networks, texts are distributed about it, the authors of which claim: a young girl at the age of 26 received the title of Major General. We decided to check if this is really so.

“Do you think it’s difficult to become a major general in Russia? For many military people who have devoted their lives to military service, such a title seems unattainable. However, as it turned out, it is not at all necessary to go to this goal for many years. It is enough to get surrounded by the head of the defense department of Sergey Shoigu. We are talking about the beauty Russians Markovskaya, who at the age of 26 was able to receive the title of Major General. "

So It begins One of the articles dedicated to the Russians of Markovskaya on the portal Militaryarms.ru. A similar text is not the only one - Markovskaya is discussed, for example, at "Picabu", periodically in "Yandex.Zen", There are such publications in "VKontakte" And "Classmates". Many texts are accompanied by a biography of the girl, her photographs and retelling of her Instagram. In the comments, users of social networks Markovskaya condemn.

The information that Russians Markovskaya received the title of Major General began to spread on social networks in August 2020. It is not known which publication was the first, but in some posts the authors They wrote: “Having arrived in Moscow in 2017, Markovskaya comes across Shoigu, and he takes it and puts it to the post of spokeswoman. After some time, he issues a special decree, and Markovskaya award the title of Major General. Do you think deservedly? "

In other texts, social networks users Approvedthat before becoming a press secretary, Markovskaya worked on the Zvezda television channel and it was there that Shoigu allegedly noticed her.

Russians Markovskaya was really born and studied not in Moscow. According to biographies On the TASS website, Markovskaya was born in 1991 in Vladivostok, in 2013 she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Far Eastern Federal University. After that, the girl worked in different publications. In 2015–2016, Markovskaya worked on the Zvezda television channel, but after that she managed to be the Izvestia telecorrhever.

In November 2017, Russians Markovskaya appointed Press Secretary of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu. No evidence that they met, it was when the girl worked on the Zvezda television channel.

On the official page of the Ministry of Defense indicatedthat Russians Markovskaya is the state adviser of the Russian Federation of the 3rd grade. This is a cool rank of federal state civil servants. By table The ratio of civilian classrooms and military titles, this rank corresponds to the level of the military rank of major. There are no other orders in which Markovskaya would be awarded the title of Major General.

In addition, the Markovskaya born in January 1991 at the time of August 2020 was 29 years old. And when she was 26 (from January 6, 2017 to January 6, 2018), Markovskaya has just become a Shoigu press secretary.

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What do our verdicts mean?

Read on the topic:

1. Markovskaya, Russians Vladimirovna (TASS)
2. Markovskaya Russians Vladimirovna (Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation)
3. The spokesman Shoigu became the television journalist Russians Markovskaya