- Ruslan Kokshin
Ruslan Kokshin is an officer in the Russian military. While serving as a leader of a mortar platoon, Kokshin located and took out a small group of opposition forces in
Chechnya . Due to this action by him, Kokshin was awarded the titleHero of the Russian Federation for his "heroic duty while in the service of the state." [http://english.pravda.ru/region/2002/12/16/40848.html]
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