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Article: RUSSIA: RUSSIAN CONTRACT SERVICEMEN LEAVING CHECHNYA 'EN MASSE'.
- Article from:
- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- April 29, 2001
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Colonel General Vladislav Putilin, the deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, has acknowledged that "contract servicemen are leaving Chechnya en masse," "Trud-7" reported on 27 April. Because such soldiers form 40 percent of all service people on the Russian side, this represents a threat to the Russian campaign in Chechnya, and that is why President Putin has taken a personal interest in raising the servicemen's pay and ...