A pair of recent articles have raised the question as to whether America is well-served by the all-volunteer military that has existed since the end of the Vietnam War. Rajan Menon, a political scientist from the City College of New York, writes in Foreign Policy that the forever wars currently …
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On Thursday, the Second Eastern District Military Court handed Shamsutdinov a sentence of 24 and a half years in a maximum-security prison colony. He will also have to pay a fine of 9.8 million rubles ($130,000) by way of compensation to his victims and their families. The attack, at a …
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The tragedy happened at the ‘Baltimor’ military airfield near the city, which is 490km south of Moscow. According to preliminary reports, a service member armed with an axe went after a group of people, managed to seize an automatic rifle and then opened fire. It appears that the young man, …
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Chelyabinsk soldiers Artur Khakimov, who escaped from the military unit in Transbaikalia, talked about physical violence during the service. This “URA.RU” said the human rights organization “Committee-the Council of Soldiers ‘Mothers of Russia”. Khakimov said that standing above him in rank, the soldier is periodically applied to it physical violence, …
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From the day of the massacre in a military unit in Transbaikalia was more than two months, but neither Putin nor Shoigu was never announced to the country, what are the conclusions from the tragedy, what measures have been taken to prevent the recurrence of torture in the Russian army. …
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The history of Ruslana Samidinova. Very dry and without adjectives (although there are a lot of them!). 1. The service, which is a form of punishment, cannot be considered “honorable duty”. 2. No relation to the strengthening of the defense capability of the local conscript army has not. To the …
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