title: The rebuilding of Russian military capabilities
abstract: Russia has made very considerable progress in rebuilding its military capabilities since the start of the Anatoly Serdyukov reforms. The Russian armed forces of today are almost unrecognisable in comparison with the 2008 version, especially in the streamlining of its structure and the significant improvement in its ability to deploy forces quickly and carry out its assigned missions, in Crimea in 2014 and in Russia’s intervention in the war in Syria since 2015. While there continue to be limits 