The long-sacrosanct practice of keeping young Russian army conscripts off the front lines is eroding as the lack of troops in Russia’s Kursk region indicates a manpower shortage. By Neil MacFarquhar ...

After Russian police started using facial-recognition cameras to identify men wanted by military authorities, a young bank ...

Deep in a Ukrainian forest at one of the country's largest military training grounds, the rumble and blasts of weapons mixed with the screams of young -- and not so-young -- new soldiers. Drafted to ...