Also on point of leaks, Russian media outlet RBC has been starting to publish excerpts and summaries of the yet-unreleased document that was being prepared by the murdered politician Nemtsov at the time of his death. Nemtsov's sources alleged the following:
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- No fewer than 150 Russian soldiers died in the fighting during August 2014
- Approximately 70 Russian soldiers (including 17 airborne troops from Ivanovo) were killed in the January-February fighting near Debaltsevo
- Approximately 53 billion roubles ($ 1 billion) from the Russian budget has been spent on the war in southeast Ukraine in the course of 10 months
- Approximately 80 billion roubles ($ 1.5 billion) from the Russian budget was spent on refugees from the conflict
- Estimates by economists of the cost to everyday Russians from the annexation of Crimea include approximately 2 trillion roubles ($ 39 billion) in terms of lost actual wages, and 750 billion roubles ($ 15 billion) in terms of wiped out savings.
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(source in Russian:
http://top.rbc.ru/politics/12/05/201...794770c68a8207 )