By Anatoly Medetsky
“I remember him for his brusque behavior and arrogance toward the deputies,” Viktor Ilyin, leader of the Communist faction there, said Tuesday. “If someone spoke out with a different point of view, he could talk back rudely.”
He attributed some of Gaplikov's seamy manners to his one-time service as a conscript in the special forces of the General Staff's main intelligence department. The record of the service was on Gaplikov's resume, provided to the legislature when it voted him in as prime minister in 2004, Ilyin said.
