Jobs for the brass.
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 No...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 326; pp. 51 - 52 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
February 13 1993
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