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What does Russia's military gawk like in 2015? With President Vladimir Putin fighting wars in Ukraine and Syria, are his armed forces and military hardware able to carry out his robust foreign policy?For answers, we turn to Michael Kofman, or a public policy fellow at the Kennan Institute,a research organization focused on Ukraine and Russia.
What you'll learn from this segment:What the current state of the Russian military is like.
Whether Russia is modernizing for the 21st century.
What the Russians are doing with Soviet-era hardware.
Source: wnyc.org