The Russian army today, like any other army, is an institution for organising and channelling violence in the pursuit of some concept of the national interest. But violence is not easy to control, and ...

Significant numbers of fighting-aged Russian men are trying to escape President Vladimir Putin’s partial military draft. They don’t want to join the approximately 15,000-25,000 Russians who have been ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Throughout the first year of their military service, hundreds of thousands of new recruits in the Russian armed forces face grossly abusive treatment at the hands of more senior conscripts. Under a ...

Russia's once mighty armed forces are a haven for sadists, with senior soldiers subjecting their junior colleagues to vicious beatings, torture, sexual violence and death threats, a report said ...

Russia has always had a conscript army. In the nineteenth century serfs had to serve first for 25 years, later reduced to 20. With the abolition of serfdom, the period of service for every Russian ...

Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 12/ Trend , K. Zarbaliyeva/ Azerbaijan's military prosecutor says dedovshchina cases are not frequent in military units. "Dedovshchina cases occur very rarely in Azerbaijan's ...