February 14th, 2008  
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Post; Russian Army, as seen by British reporter


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Antique artillery shells, a single wheezy aircraft carrier - and troops living on pig lard and grey bread... Nick Holdsworth goes on a Russian military exercise to find the truth behind Putin's sabre-rattling boasts: a broken army still battling out in the cold

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