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10-28-2007, 05:59 PM
28/ 10/ 2007

KHABAROVSK, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia began on Sunday large-scale military exercises in the Far East to practice interoperability between troops, the press office of the Far Eastern military district said.

"The strategic command-and-staff military exercises to practice control of force groupings in the Eastern region, East-2007, are being held in accordance with the training plans of the Russian Armed Forces. The exercises will be held from October 28 through November 3," the press office said.

The exercises will be supervised by Yuri Baluyevsky, chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, and will aim to practice measures to localize internal armed conflicts, destroy illegal armed formations and terrorist groups, the press office said.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071028/85709221.html

Russia's Far East

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Chief of the General Staff, First Deputy Minister of Defence Yuri Baluyevsky

http://www.mil.ru/eng/12005/12062/12080/index.shtml


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