Paul Goble
Staunton, June 11 – This week, the Russian Interior Ministry for the first time published summary data on losses among MVD internal troops in the North Caucasus since 1988, information which allows Vladimir Mukhin of "Nezavisimaya gazeta” conclude that "officially” Russian forces have lost more than 10,000 dead in efforts to stabilize the North Caucasus.
General Nikolay Rogozhkin, commander of the MVD Interior Forces, said yesterday that since 1988, his units had suffered approximately 12,000 casualties in the North Caucasus, including 2984 dead and some 9,000 wounded, Mukhin reports in today’s "Nezavisimaya gazeta” (www.ng.ru/regions/2010-06-11/2_kavkaz.html).
(Rogozhkin’s figures presumably include the 2178 combat deaths Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev reported in April 2010 when he reported about the losses his ministry’s personnel had suffered during ten years of fighting in Chechnya.)
The Russian defense ministry’s website ...
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