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Ep 79: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s Military

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The First Chechen War

Novella Hajimirar: Russia has fought in Chechnya, maybe there's been multiple Chechen wars. What starts it? What does it look like when the Russian military that you're so vividly describing actually goes to combat in the mid 90s? And what's the outcome? "This is a great tall story, Novella," she says. 'I often felt that the Russians and some ways are victims of their own literature"

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