Viktor Baranets & Mikhail Timoshenko, Armiia Rossii. Zashchitnitsa ili zhertva? Kak my snimali Serdiukova . Knizhnyi Mir, 2013, 416 pages

Abstract

Viktor Baranets is a very well known specialist on the Russian military. For this reason, I was quite interested in reading the new book on the Russian military that he has co-written with Mikhail Timoshenko, his co-host for a military-themed radio show at Komsomolskaia Pravda radio. The book, entitled Armiia Rossii: zashchitnitsa ili zhertva? Kak my snimali Serdiukova, was published earlier this year in Moscow. Despite the provocative title, the book is a huge disappointment. Of its 412 page...