Yevgeny Nazdratenko, governor of Primorsky Krai, now speaks publicly of the need to bring the Russian border guards into line.

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Poverty is rampant among Russian nuclear-weapons guards, it noted.

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After giving the guards the cigarettes, the aristocrat began arguing with them in Russian.

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