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A Russian Cargo Truck Just “Shot Down” a Sukhoi Su-25
The aircraft was on the ground at a Russian airbase in the annexed Crimea region when it was struck by a truck traveling at ...
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What it's like to be a conscript in the Russian military
Major reform efforts began in the mid-2000s to replace a system which still resembled the Soviet Union's. But to outside eyes, the system for recruits seems eerily similar. The fitness standards ...
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THE CONSCRIPT LAW.
A person named BROWN, since the passage of the Conscript law and the call of the President, was elected Justice of the Peace. The Probate Court refused to accept his bond, on the ground that he ...
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Back in the USSR: Putin revives Soviet-era 'Eurovision' with new allies
MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to counter what he says is the decadence of modern ...
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Inside Roman Abramovich's rise from college dropout and Red Army conscript to rubber-duck trader, billionaire oligarch, and wartime peace envoy
The college dropout and former Red Army conscript started out trading rubber ... It was the late 1980s, and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was seeking to transfer power from the dusty state ...