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| | Many Russians Questioning Official Toll in Chechnya [Free Republic] |
 | | But a detailed analysis, conducted by a former Defense Ministry press secretary and recently published in Komsomolskaya Pravda, a major Russian newspaper, claims that the real figure is almost twice that, or 1,300. |
 | | According to the Komsomolskaya Pravda article, a declassified report put the total number of dead in the first Chechen war at close to 4,000, both army and Interior Ministry troops, but the author, in an interview, said he reckons that even that figure is low by as much as 1,500. |
 | | Lt. Viktor Baranets, a correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda and former press secretary to a defense minister, has been following the official casualty figures since the troops first went to fight the Chechen guerrillas in Dagestan in August. |
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