…AS DUMA COMMITTEE CHIEF CAMPAIGNS AGAINST GOVERNMENT’S MILITARY POLICIES.

The man spearheading opposition to the Kremlin’s defense reform policies, Duma Defense Committee chairman Gen. Lev Rokhlin, is currently touring the country in an effort to win backing for an organization that he recently founded. Rokhlin has said that the new organization will work to protect the rights of servicemen and military industrial workers. Rokhlin again claimed that his movement would be non-political, but in the next breath suggested it would lobby for a change of government. (Nezavisimaya gazeta, July 23)

Russian Army Still Racked by Bullying, Non-Combat Deaths.