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MORE NON-COMBAT DEATHS IN RUSSIAN ARMY.

Publication Monitor

07.22.1997

MORE NON-COMBAT DEATHS IN RUSSIAN ARMY.

A lieutenant serving in a unit deployed near the town of Ussuriisk in the Russian Far East committed suicide on July 20. A Defense Ministry source cited the officer’s "desperate financial situation." The same source said that 39 servicemen in the Ground Forces had died last week as a result of "various illegal activities." One was a junior officer of the 58th Army who died on July 20 of a drug overdose. (Russian agencies, July 21)

Ukraine’s Trade Falls.

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