'drunk' colonel sending troops to their deaths sparks russian tv fury...  pic rel defended the colonel as a 'hero' and said the soldier's widows are liars, who is right? vladimir solovyov, the host of state tv rossiya-ones daily chat show, last month described soldiers widows as liars for accusing col alexei ksenofontov of being drunk and then sending their husbands to their deaths. he told his audience that he personally knew col ksenofontov, who was made a hero of russia in april. alexei is a normal commander, a thinking commander capable of competently preparing and carrying out a task, he said. they have slandered a hero. but instead of silencing the mourning women, mr solovyovs intervention has heaped more embarrassment onto the kremlin by triggering new accusations and given ordinary russians a rare glimpse of the medieval techniques used by their military commanders.   d/ar-aa1ri840
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