Earlier this year a conscript in the Russian army committed suicide after 6 months of service near Khabarovsk.
A day before another soldier hanged himself in the town of Rostov. And a few days before that, on the Kuril Islands in Eastern Russia, a soldier was beaten to death with a spade. Two of his fellow soldiers are being questioned over the affair.
Bullying is rife in the Russian army, but it's now being fought by a determined alliance of mothers who have come together to form an increasingly powerful pressure group. |
