But Pavel Felgenhauer says Russia cannot afford large-scale rearmament either and that Russian authorities have not reconciled this contradiction.

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President Medvedev says some military units have already been modernized and he expects large-scale army and navy rearmament to begin in 2011.

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But independent military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer notes that Russia may not only lack the money, but also the industrial capacity for large-scale rearmament.

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