MP SEES RUSSIAN ARMY OF 1.2 MILLION MEN.

Sergei Yushenkov, the chairman of the Duma’s defense committee, told Russian television June 19 that he believed the Russian army would ultimately number 1-1.2 million men. This represents a reduction of at least 500,000 from current levels. In other remarks, Yushenko complained that the army was out of control: “there is no control by the state or by the society or by anyone else,” he said. Moreover, Yushenkov repeated his earlier charges that if Yeltsin has formed a group to promote military reform, he has kept that group’s activities a secret even to members of the Russian parliament.

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