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Russian military officer stands guards at a radar station at the missile defense facility in Sofrino, 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Moscow, Friday, May 4, 2012. Mikhail Metzel/AP
A Russian soldier stands as a mobile launcher with a Topol-M missile drives past during the general rehearsal for the Victory parade on Moscow's Red Square May 6, 2012. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
A member of a historical military club wearing Soviet army uniform and his children ride a vintage motorcycle during celebration of Victory Day in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 9, 2012. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
Russian Police academy female cadets march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St.Petersburg, Russia, Monday, April 18, 2011. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
Russian servicemen take part in the Victory Parade on Moscow's Red Square on May 9, 2012. Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
World War II veteran Fyodor Bortsov sits on a bench as another WWII veteran walks past during a Victory Day celebration in Gorky Park in Moscow on May 9, 2012. Denis Sinyakov/Reuters
A Russian military vehicle makes the way down a road during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
A Russian soldier rides on a tank toward Red Square during a rehearsal for a military parade in Moscow on May 5. Nikolay Korchekov/Reuters
A woman watches a military vehicle passing by during a military parade on Victory Day in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia, on May 9. Yuri Maltsev/Reuters
Russian military officers are on duty in a control center of a radar station at the missile defense facility in Sofrino, Russia, May 4, 2012. Mikhail Metzel/AP
A Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber, which carries nuclear rockets, lands at the Yemelyanovo airport near Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on June 8. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
A Russian nuclear submarine, the Yuri Dolgoruky, floats near the Sevmash factory in Arkhangelsk, Russia, in 2009. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/File
A Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from the northern Plesetsk cosmodrome in 1999. AP/File
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Nearly 25 years after Soviet troops left Afghanistan in defeat, Russia may return – in order to service the Russian equipment that makes up the backbone of the Afghan military.
Almost a quarter century after Soviet troops left Afghanistan in defeat, Russia may return to the country by establishing "maintenance bases" for Russian-made military equipment after NATO winds down its operations there next year, Defense Ministry officials have confirmed.
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