Digest : Human Rights in Russia and the Former Soviet Republics
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The military reform in Russia is a big hoax. All military reforms in other countries have amounted to the demobilization of the old army and the creation of a new one, which is based on a different recruitment mode, doctrine, etc. This has not been done in Russia. The old army has not been disbanded, no new one has been built, and meanwhile the military are decaying somewhere in between” (Anonymous Russian Officer, Russian Military Reform, 2003).
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