Edited sentence: ' General Viktor Samsonov was appointed as Chief of Staff.In December 1993, the CIS Armed Forces Headquarters was abolished.Instead, 'the CIS Council of Defence Ministers created a CIS Military Cooperation Coordination Headquarters (MCCH) in Moscow, with 50 per cent of the funding provided by Russia.Shaposhnikov resigned in June 1993.When Yeltsin became Russian Defence Minister on 7 May 1992, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, the man appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the CIS Armed Forces, and his staff, was ejected from the MOD and General Staff buildings and given offices in the former Warsaw Pact Headquarters on the northern outskirts of Moscow