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	Russian Military History - Russian Army
		The commanders of Peter's army were initially drawn from the old nobility (dvoriane), which had been expected to serve as the officer caste as well as to staff the ranks of the newly created civil administrations.
		The r point is this: the Russian army had to rely on a strategy of retreat and scorched earth despite all the political and economic liabilities of such a strategy.
		The Russian transportation system was very weak and the methods of supply heartbreakingly slow, this in a country that had undertaken the invasion of East Prussia as its first act in the war.
	www.systemaspetsnaz.com /russian_military.htm (4210 words)

	Chapter Chapter 4 of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
		The only difference was that the Russian army moved at its own will, free from the menace of annihilation that hung over the French, and that the sick and stragglers of the French were left in the hands of their enemy, while Russian stragglers were at home among their own people.
		The chief cause of the wasting of Napoleon’s army was the rapidity of its movements, and an indubitable proof of that is to be seen in the corresponding dwindling of the Russian army.
		The object of the Russian army was the pursuit of the French.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/52/96/19472/1.html (655 words)

	Russian Army Problems - CDI Russia Weekly #248
		Everybody already knows problems of the Russian army: the level of combat training leaves much to be desired, there is lack of military equipment, corruption is flourishing among officers, and so on.
		These are: army on a contractual basis, an alternative service for those who don' want to lose their health (at best) in the army where relations with senior soldiers are always a terrible problem.
		It is also quite a problem with whom to accomplish missions; indeed, intellectual capabilities of army conscripts are extremely low, and the level of preparedness of young men demonstrates that further studies are hardly to be a success.
	www.cdi.org /russia/248-12.cfm (461 words)

	Military History Online - The Russian Army in 1914
		When facing Germany in East Prussia, the inadequacy of Russian industry to effectively modernize the army and the Russian General Staff's inability to adapt to industrialised warfare on the battlefield, was made apparent in a dramatic fashion.
		The Russians were very new to airplanes; consequently soldiers could not distinguish friend or foe, shooting down friendly aircraft.[9] Upon entering Germany, Rennenkampf used his Guards Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line to scout his main force of three corps before engaging the German I Corps at Stalluponen.
		It was decided to preempt the inevitable Russian attack out of Silesia with the formation of a new Ninth army, composed of reinforcements from the west and parts of the Eighth army, under Generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwi/articles/russianarmy1914.aspx (3276 words)

	In Russian Army, enemy is a comrade - The Boston Globe
		The Russian Army is legendary for being almost as dangerous in peacetime as it is in war.
		A number of the 1,064 servicemen who died of various ''crimes and incidents" were also victims of abuse, and many ''suicides" are faked to disguise fatal beatings, or occur because soldiers can no longer endure the torment, according to military analysts and human rights organizations.
		Nearly every army in the world has initiation rites and means of informal discipline, some of it violent.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/02/12/in_russian_army_enemy_is_a_comrade (813 words)

	Russian army (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Russian military officials said a preliminary investigation showed the soldier was in a "state of narcotic intoxication" when the shooting occurred.
		The incident highlights the depression and ill-discipline of the Russian army, most of whom are teenagers not lucky enough to avoid conscription.
		Some 400,000 men are forced into the Russian army each year, although many try to get a doctor's exemption from two years in the brutal culture of a barracks or under rebel fire in the Chechen conflict.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Russia/russia_russianarmy12703.html (249 words)

	CDI Russia Weekly #196 - Russian Military, Russian Army's Future
		Ilya Klebanov, the main lobbyist of this idea in the Russian government, has recently been dismissed from the position of the vice premier, although he is still the minister in charge of the military and industrial complex.
		The most important role in the modernization of the Russian Army is taken by the development of the deliveries of the Russian weapons to foreign countries.
		It is envisaged that Russian enterprises are supposed to develop their links not only with the traditional partners in Asia and Africa and they should also enter the markets of the NATO countries as well as the countries of Latin America.
	www.cdi.org /russia/196-8.cfm (739 words)

	'Catastrophic' Level Of Russian Army Suicides
		Eight of the soldiers committed suicide and several had to be shot by comrades to halt drunken and violent rampages.
		Russians have long known that their armed forces are ravaged by appalling brutality, crime and bullying but these revelations from General Alexander Savenkov have hit home particularly hard.
		Mr Ivanov has claimed the number of suicides, accidental deaths and murders in the army is decreasing but General Savenkov stated the opposite.
	www.rense.com /general66/catastroph.htm (386 words)

	Russian Archives Online > The Gallery > The Red Army
		The Russian imperial army and navy disintegrated after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, so the Council of the People's Commissars created the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army on a voluntary basis.
		The Red Army faced the problem of creating a competent and reliable officers' corps, leading Trotsky to mobilize former officers of the imperial army.
		The Russian army's numbers keep going down but it is still a force the world has to reckon with.
	www.pbs.org /redfiles/rao/gallery/old/redarmy.html (832 words)

	Russian Colonel Partners with New Army Rabbi - Stories - Chabad-Lubavitch News
		So as an orphan to a Soviet general, the young Zokhorovich was adopted by the army and sent to a dormitory where he was trained to join the ranks of his comrades as an officer.
		So when he heard that the Russian army was going to have a new rabbi, he wanted to be a partner.
		One year ago, Zokhorovich approached the Russian minister of defense and asked to be the supervisor of Rabbi Aron Gurevitch, whom the Federation of Jewish Communities of the Commonwealth of Independent States appointed to be the army's first rabbi.
	www.chabad.org /news/article_cdo/aid/564975/jewish/Russian-Colonel-Partners-with-Army-Rabbi.htm (853 words)

	Russian Army - MN-FILES - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (aka the Russian Army) is made up of the Ground Forces, the Air Force, and the Navy.
		The Russian Armed Forces are formed by a compulsory draft which takes place twice a year, in the spring and in the fall.
		Those wishing to serve in the army professionally are trained in the regiment and serve in all of its ground operations.
	www.mosnews.com /mn-files/army.shtml (1055 words)

	Russia Blog: Russian Army Desperately Needs Reform
		This is the worst case of documented abuse in the Russian Army since the widely reported case of Pvt.
		Army doctors had tried to cover up the crime, blaming the loss of Sychev’s legs on a pre-existing medical condition, but a civilian panel of medical examiners concluded that Sychev was gang raped in the barracks while taped to his bunk.
		An Army the nation could be proud of again would be the best legacy Putin could leave from the time he has left in office.
	www.russiablog.org /2006/07/russian_army_needs_a_reform.php (1865 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Is the Russian army incompetent?
		According to the Russian General Staff, fuel-air bombs are weapons of mass destruction, as powerful as small nuclear weapons.
		Intelligent observers of the Russian scene now believe that the war in Chechnya was arranged to propel Yeltsin's chosen successor into the presidency.
		Russian soldiers and Chechen civilians have become expendable props in an attempt to convince the West that Russia's large military infrastructure is rotten, useless and non-threatening.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19797 (1650 words)

	Russian Army - Overview
		This extraordinarily high percentage reflected both the Soviet and Russian tradition of giving little authority to the enlisted ranks, as well as the vestiges of the much larger military cadre inherited from the Soviet army.
		The Russian tradition of hazing in the ranks, which became more violent and was much more widely reported in the 1990s, also has contributed to society's antipathy toward military service.
		The army had not conducted a regiment or division-scale field training exercise in over two years and most battalions were lucky to conduct field training once a year.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/agency/army-intro.htm (928 words)

	Murder exposes loss of Russian army discipline - Telegraph
		But the revelry was the prologue to the murder of an 18-year-old girl, the vicious beating of a junior officer by his superiors and an armed stand-off between Russian soldiers and two of their own generals.
		The colonel is accused of abducting Elza Kungayeva from her home in the village of Tangi-Chu and ordering his men to roll her up in a blanket and take her to the regiment's base in an armoured personnel carrier.
		Two generals from the Russian military headquarters in Chechnya flew to the regiment's base to investigate but were faced by a near mutiny.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/24/wchec24.xml (838 words)

	The Russian Civil War
		This resulted in the Russians having to surrendering the Ukraine, Finland, the Baltic provinces, the Caucasus and Poland.
		General Peter Wrangel now took control of the White Army in the Crimea but he was unable to make much impression against General Mikhail Frunze and the Red Army and in November the remaining members of his army left Russia.
		Since the peasant population of the region was not in sympathy with the programme of the generals, their troops were forced to retreat to the steppes.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUScivilwar.htm (3787 words)

	The Russian Military - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine
		The Russians are pounding their own city, Grozny, to rubble and are murdering Russian civilians in the process.
		Russian arms plants still produce excellent weapons for export (anti-ship missiles, for example), but the Russian military can't afford to buy any of them.
		Russian soldiers will shell Grozny to its foundations and fly their flags, but they won't engage in street-to-street fighting: It's too bloody.
	www.slate.com /id/68304 (1993 words)

	Russian Army Order of Battle
		As of 1996 the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation were estimated to number approximately 670,000 officers and enlisted personnel.
		These figures strongly suggest that most of the notional "divisions" of the Russian Army consisted of a base, equipment, and officers, but no more than a handful of soldiers to actually operate equipment.
		A very large number of the sixty-nine divisions that were nominally part of the Russian Army as of 1996 were deployed in the Siberian, Transbaikal and Far Eastern Military Districts.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/agency/army-oob.htm (447 words)

	Marriage agency Army Of Russian Brides: foreign men on-line catalog. Register Free
		First of all, Gentlemen On-line Catalog at Army Of Brides is a place where foreign men who are searching for Russian women can post their information and pictures.
		Russian women registered in local marriage agencies affiliated with Army Of Brides all over Ukraine and Russia will come to their agency, and the agency staff will show them profile and photos of men on-line.
		When your ad is deactivated, new Russian women can't see you on-line at the agency and can't send you their introduction letters, but you can keep correspondence with women you have chosen, or initiate a contact with new women - only those women whom you contact will be able to see your profile and pictures.
	www.army-of-brides.com /gentlemen-catalog.html (535 words)

	Statement by Mikhail Kamynin, the Spokesman of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regarding Detention in Georgia of ...
		Three Russian army officers were detained on February 8 in the Kurta village within the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict by a Georgian military post illegally set up there.
		The Russian servicemen were on their way to investigate a road accident that also occurred in the conflict zone on the night of January 31-February 1.
		The Russian MFA and the Embassy of Russia in Georgia during the day on February 9 took all possible measures for the soonest release of the Russian army officers.
	www.mid.ru /brp_4.nsf/0/023B91FDF9F27950C3257111004E10F9 (262 words)

	Russian Army: reform has finished, reforming has started - Pravda.Ru
		According to Sergey Ivanov, the number of Russian troops has reached the level of the defense self-sufficiency which is equal to the amount about one million people.
		The friend of the President appointed the Minister of Defense was able to conduct Army reform quickly — officially it finished last year and resulted in one more reducing the number of troops up to 1.2 million people, introducing the contract system of recruiting soldiers and sergeants and new structural changes for the military command.
		According to Ivanov, the “reform” has been completed, but he said about the start of the new period of “regimentation”, that is more radical Army reforming: conducting modernization of weapons and military equipment, further improving the structure of Army command, preparing new Army regulations etc. This all is of critical importance for the Army.
	english.pravda.ru /russia/politics/19-01-2004/4627-0 (640 words)

	Army Technology - Kornet E - Anti-Armour Missile
		Kornet E is the name given to the export version of the Russian Kornet missile system.
		The system, first shown in 1994, has been developed by the KBP Instrument Design Making Bureau, Tula, Russia and is in production and service with the Russian Army and has been sold to the Syrian Army.
		Kornet is a third generation system, developed to replace the Fagot and Konkurs missile systems in the Russian Army.
	www.army-technology.com /projects/kornet (570 words)

	Russian Army and the First World War
		During the early stages of the First World War, the Russian Army was mainly concentrated on the Eastern Front but some detachments also served on the Balkan Front and the Western Front.
		The impression I got in April was the Russian troops, all the men and most of the officers, were magnificent material who were being wasted because of the incompetence, intrigues, and corruption of the men who governed the country.
		The Russian officers, brutal as they often were to their men (many of them scarcely considered privates to be human), were as a rule friendly and helpful to us.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWrussiaA.htm (2005 words)

	SAGE - the natural home for authors, editors and societies - The Russian Army in a Time of Troubles
		This study of the Russian army and how it has fared in the uncertain transitional period since independence in December 1991 provides the basis for understanding its present and potential future role in the new political developments within Russia.
		The problem of the politicization of the army is followed through the interlinked issues of stalled military reform and a drastically reduced military budget.
		Baev examines the current military role of the army with case studies on conflict management in the Caucasus and the army's performance in the role of peace-keeper in the Chechen War.
	www.sagepub.co.uk /librarians/newsletter/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book205694&currTree=Subjects&level1=J00&level2=JH0&level3=JH8 (223 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - Defense minister talks tough on hazing in Russian army
		Two weeks ago a military court in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk ruled that Vladimir Kontonistov, a Russian Army deputy commander, had abused his position by sending young conscripts to various organizations to earn money he then personally pocketed.
		Ivanov also said the Defense Ministry had been working on the formation of the military police in the army, but said the new army institution would not be a remedy for hazing.
		Tougher measures against crimes in the army were raised by the minister following recent hazing cases in the Russian army that caused an outcry in society.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20060215/43559593.html (394 words)

	Address to the Choir and Orchestra of the Russian Army
		I extend my cordial thoughts to the Cardinals, the Bishops, the Authorities and to Ambassador Litvin, Representative to the Holy See of the Russian Federation, and to the whole audience.
		I thank you for it all, dear friends of the Choir and Orchestra of the Russian Army.
		Upon each and every one and especially upon the members of the Academy of Song and Dance of the Russian Army, I invoke the protection of the "Mother of God" of Kazan, whose icon was recently returned to Russia, a Land particularly dear to me.
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2004/october/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20041015_armata-russa_en.html (197 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - RUSSIA'S STRATEGY AFTER GROZNY
		The Russian army has scored a significant victory by capturing Grozny and by inflicting heavy casualties on the rebels.
		Encouraged by this victory, and excited by the prospect of achieving a decisive victory, the Russian military is pressing on with its campaign in mountainous southern Chechnya.
		If the Russian army continues its advance, federal forces could find themselves caught up in a cycle of diminishing returns with tactical gains coming only with a significant increase in costs, as measured by casualties.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav021500.shtml (822 words)

	Russian Army Units Jeopardized by UFO?
		Alarms went off at 01.00 local time (22:00 hrs GMT yesterday) and an hour later, confusion was extreme in the garrisons on the ridges separating Dagestan from Chechnya and the war which has raged the area north of the Caucasus for over a year and a half.
		Several civilian witnesses agreed on the description and light arrangement of the mysterious phenomenon, while hesitating to ascribe its origin to a secret weapon of the Russian army or a new weapon in the hands of Islamic separatists.
		Scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Dagestan were cautious and stated their unwillingness to state if the object in question was indeed a UFO or a natural optical phenomenon.
	www.rense.com /general5/russufo.htm (365 words)

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