MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Defense Ministry denied media reports Tuesday that the country's six military districts would be replaced with regional commands as part of a structural reform of the Armed Forces.
"These reports do not correspond to reality and are nothing but fiction from beginning to end," spokesman Vyacheslav Sedov said.
Land Forces alone serve in the Moscow, Leningrad, North Caucasus, Volga-Ural, Siberian and Far-Eastern military districts.
"The issue of changing a command system can only be considered after a thorough analysis of the experiment in southeast Siberia," Sedov said.
An experiment will be launched on June 1 to set up a single regional command over the Far-Eastern, Siberian and Volga-Ural military districts to cover the land, air and naval forces.
