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| | Chechnya War, Russian General Troshev - Johnson's Russia List 1-15-03 |
 | | Alexander Lebed, a former paratrooper general, stood against Putin in the 2000 presidential elections. |
 | | Their complaints are familiar: first, that the army has been starved of support, both political and financial, to smash rebels in Chechnya and second, that under corrupt and incompetent civilian leadership, Russia has lost her great power status - and needs to claw it back. |
 | | Far from wanting a political settlement to end the Chechen war, the generals are already demanding its widening, to include an invasion of neighbouring Georgia to strike at rebel bases. |
| www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7018-17.cfm (983 words) |
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