Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/20/2009

Armed With Nukes and a Vague Plan

By Simon Saradzhyan
When Vladimir Putin became acting president on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he took over a country whose armed forces were struggling to fill combat-ready units to fight guerillas in Chechnya.

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