| Sumario: | Several western nations are helping retrain Russia's growing pool of redundant army officers to compete for scarce jobs. The Westminster Foundation for Democracy has brought a group of social workers and would-be social workers, including ex-colonels and ex-majors from the former Soviet army, to Norfolk, England, to find out how the region runs its social services. On a larger scale, Germany offers courses ranging from computer programming to marketing for Russian officers waiting to be withdrawn from eastern Germany. Moreover, the OECD has proposed a pilot project that would help the Russian government teach trainers, including some ex-officers, who could then pass on their knowledge to groups of officers.
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