Talk:Mikhail Ryabko

Special advisor to whom?
When I came across this page it said Special Advisor to the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation which is a real position so I added who that was. However, when I was checking the references, his biography says Special Advisor to the Supreme Judge of the Russian Federation. Was Supreme Judge replaced with Minister of Justice because that is what Supreme Judge means? I am not sure because when I read that term I initially checked Supreme Court of the Russian Federation however I could not find any title called 'Supreme Judge' within the Judiciary. The Minister of Justice is a position within the Government cabinet, does that position serve in effect as 'Supreme Judge' over the Supreme Court or something along those lines? I don't know anything about the structure of the Russian Government so I am not sure, but I want to make sure the term is properly interchangeable. Even if this is correct, I think it would be good to include a note in the article for anybody else who is confused about this. I am not really sure why Supreme Judge would be said instead of Minister of Justice on Ryabkov's biography.

I thought 'maybe it used to be called Supreme Judge and they changed it?' After all, the previous guy only vacated his position May 12, 2008 (I am not sure when Alexandr Konovalov, the current Minister, took office though, his bio only says 2008). So I checked him out, the previous person was [[Vladimir Ustinov. However when you read his article the position says "Justice Minister of Russia". So this leads me to think I might be correct, maybe they did change the name of the position during the Ustinov>Konovalov interim? Anyway following the line back, the earliest I could trace back to is Sergei Stepashin who got the position in 1997. Before that was somebody named Valentin Kovalyov but they do not have a Wikipedia article, so therefore there is not any fancy chart for me to keep clicking to find out who it was before that, and if the position was ever called Supreme Judge or anything like that. Eh well. If anyone knows about this please chime in. Tyciol (talk) 00:31, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Spetsnaz
At 15 he was enlisted to the ranks of Spetsnaz - rubbish. In USSR (as well as in contemporary Russia), earliest age to enlist Spetsnaz and Military at all, was 18. Every Spetsnaz veteran or servicemen can prove it. -- SerdechnyG (talk) 20:16, 19 March 2010 (UTC)