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The regional bonuses paid out to men volunteering as soldiers have gone up again to over RUB3mn ($30,000) in some regions as the Kremlin finds it increasingly hard to replace the killed and wounded. However, despite the rising pay and incentives the Ministry of Defence still only values a Russian soldiers’ life at some RUB11mn ($115,000), or about a third of the average Russian’s earning power over their whole life, but still the equivalent of as much as 13 years pay in a normal job. As bne IntelliNews reported, the payout of RUB3mn is a huge amount in Russia, where the average monthly wage is…

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