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Major General Alexander Lyakhovski, 55, served in Afghanistan between 1987 and 1989 and watched as the massive Soviet army struggled. He spoke to TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich...
Major-General Alexander Lyakhovski, 55, currently with the Russian Defense Ministry, served in Afghanistan from 1987 to 1989 as a senior aid to General Valentin Varennikov, the top Soviet military coordinator there. Author of three books on the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Lyakhovski talked with TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich about the pitfalls of warfare in that country...
...nuclear submarines has been heading the Charity Foundation in Memory of the Komsomolets (echernov@online.ru). But Chernov today is focused on the fate of a more recent Northern Fleet casualty, the Kursk, which he believes is being covered up by the Russian authorities. He talked with TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich at his modest office in St. Petersburg...
With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich...
...assume that the streets of Grozny are littered with corpses. Russia also confirmed that one of its senior generals had been either captured or killed by Chechen forces in Grozny. "Russia?s leaders are desperate to capture Grozny, and they?ll eventually do it," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "But the Chechens will make it a lot bloodier, and a lot slower, than the Russians expect." Part of the reason for Moscow's new sense of urgency is the specter of European economic sanctions, which may be imposed as early as next week. "While Europe wouldn't stop humanitarian...