No mystery why the Russian Army is inept and prone to extortion.....their training system see's newbies abused 24/365..sodomy..beatings..on and on.
3rd year soldiers become *Grandfathers..and then they begin the cycle anew on newbies.
Crime of all manner shadows the Russian military
Russian Military admin run around the counrtyside with photo's looking for conscripts who fail to appear for service duty.
Families try to hide their teens in the Urals..far off places in Russia.
In 2005 the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan pipeline is projected to go online.
BP/Amocco principles in the project.....a project running thru all manner of terrorist turf..with syndicate types/local and regional gov-extorting their cut...
Oilmen travel with hired security....kidnappings and murder abound
As soon as Azerbijan signed on..Iran broke with the new state.
Russia has been brooding over Georgia's take from the future money windfall....said too be worth a Million an hour.
Village after village from Azerbijan to Rural Turkey are discontent....few recieve any benefit so far from the pipeline.
Rural Turkey is near neolithic...no power...villages stack heaps of dung outside and inside their homes.
Ancient city of Catalhuyuk was more socially advanced.
Terror cells exist...some have been driven out of the pipeline corridor...but they are nearby.
The pipeline is to be laid deep in the ground..the hope is terrorists will not find the line or its depth : )
Russia and Iran are principly locked out of this venture.
Russia had the Caucus oil..and now has lost much of it over the past decades..their own oil infostructure out of the Caspian is archaic.
Maybe all the gangsters profiting from this venture will keep terrorists away.
Surely Russia is brooding,
I imagine the Saudi's are not to keen one this line cutting into their margins.
Are you of Russian descent?