Nationalism is not as important of young Russians as the leaders would like to.  Afghanistan and Chechnya wars, harassment of subordinates, unfair society etc. has made many Russians to choose another country and army to serve than Russia. The situation is going to look like before 1917. Why should you serve those people, who get all the oil money and wealth of the Russia, as for common people there is only poverty and misery. 

More and more Russians try to get no in Russian, but into foreign army. Its’ not a secret that today hundreds and even thousands Russian young men try to get into French foreign legion. But today it’s not just French army that Russians try to get in, but also Estonian army.

The head of Pskov frontier office General Ivan Bobryashov and an ex-head of Pechora district of Pskov region Alexander Rogov reminded about the existence of the double citizenship problem in the region. They say that there are about 10 thousand Pskov citizens that have Estonian passports. Overall there are 23, 8 thousand people in the Pskov region. This situation may be dangerous for territorial safety of Russia.

Originally at Pravda: Why Russians choose NATO army instead of Russian army?