18 February 2004 Russia is facing a serious threat: for the first time in the last 12 years it finds itself face to face with the military bureaucracy. By agreeing with the thesis by the defense minister that the most difficult stages of military reform have already been completed, Russia’s president has **de facto*** approved the existing model of the […]
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