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dedovshchina
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Clash between Tuvin and ethnic Russian soldiers at Russian training academy turns violent
Sixty ethnic Tuvin professional soldiers clashed with about 100 ethnic Russian professional soldiers at a sergeants training academy…
Demographic decline powering rise of dedovshchina in Russian and Belarusian armies
Dedovshchina, the Russian term for the mistreatment of more recent draftees and recruits by their seniors or of…
Russian military’s spring draft shaped by demography and economics
The declining size of the prime draft age cohort in Russia everywhere except in Muslim areas and the…
Ethnic clashes replacing ‘dedovshchina’ abuse in Russian military units, Moscow paper says
Russians and many in the West have come to believe that “dedovshchina,” the notorious practice in which draftees…
