NO NATO POST FOR GRACHEV.

Kremlin spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembskyyesterday made clear to reporters that former Russian defenseminister Pavel Grachev is not among the candidates being consideredfor the post of Russian representative to NATO’s military headquarters.(Interfax, June 5) Reports to that effect have appeared in thepress periodically ever since the disgraced Grachev was removedas defense minister in June of last year.

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