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Putin inspects biggest post-Soviet war games
Russian President Vladimir Putin has inspected the country's biggest military drills since Soviet times, involving around 160,000 troops.
The manoeuvres, in Russia's Far East, are part of efforts to boost military mobility and combat readiness.
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'Maximum openness'
President Putin watched some of the drills on Tuesday on Sakhalin Island in the Pacific, just north of Japan.
Konstantin Sivkov, a retired officer of the Russian military's General Staff, told the daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta that "the Sakhalin part of the manoeuvres was intended to simulate a response to a hypothetical attack by Japanese and US forces."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23327158
