Karlov graduated from the Moscow Institute of International Relations, the main diplomatic academy for both the Soviet Union and Russia.
Yet his speech in May to Germany's main military academy in Hamburg — about the need to modernize the armed forces — was anything but superficial.
Before daybreak, militants had attacked an army unit attached to Afghanistan's main military academy, where the son was studying to be an officer.
The session was organized by Zheng Bijian, a former head of the Communist Party's main training academy for party cadres, who coined the term "peaceful rise".
His stepfather, Ivan, who raised him from the time he was eight years old, was an officer in the Soviet-era police force and teaches criminology at Russia's main police academy.
Egypt's main military academy and senior civil posts have been opened up to the Bedouin, and plans are afoot to improve the peninsula's several hundred villages, many of which have no piped water.
Likewise, Americans have learned that billions of dollars in aid is still flowing to Pakistan, despite the fact that Osama bin Laden was living a mile away from Pakistan's main military academy for years.
There have been reports of a placard in North Korea's main military academy reading "The Chinese are traitors and are our enemies" and Chinese attempts to disown the leaked documents are unlikely to persuade North Koreans to change this view.
Suicide Bombers Kill 36 At Iraqi Police Academy Powerful explosions from two suicide bombs ripped through the capital's main police academy, killing at least 36 police officers and wounding 72 others, an Interior Ministry official and the American military said.
These proved to be an eerily ill-assorted bunch: a notorious gangster, sought by Interpol, and his mistress; a Kurdish MP and clan chief suspected of renting out his private army to the Turkish authorities in their fight against the PKK; and a top-ranking police officer who had been director of the country's main police academy.
