15 September 1997 RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN vowed on 21 July to ensure that tough reforms aimed at creating a smaller but “professional” and “technically well-equipped” army are carried out. In a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeev, Yeltsin said about 500 of the country’s 2,800 generals would be sacked and troops would be reduced from 1.7 mil-lion to […]
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