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Rokhlin was killed in his bed by a gunshot to the head. Rokhlin's wife Tamara, who at first had briefly confessed to the killing "due to a hostile relationship", was convicted by a Russian
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near the scene of the crime. According to officials, they were killed some time before the murder of the general, and had nothing to do with that. But many of
Rokhlin's colleagues thought that they were the real assassins, liquidated by the
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for leading the Grozny offensive, saying "It's immoral to seek glory in a civil war for commanders. For Russia, the
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court for her husband's murder in 2005, but she continued to insist he was killed by a group of masked men who broke into their
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Lvovich Rokhlin. In 1948, eight months after the birth of his son, Yakov was arrested and apparently died in a
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From 1982 to 1984 he served in
Afghanistan, initially as commander of the 860th Motor Rifle Regiment at
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Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
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prison. Lev's mother, Ksenia
Ivanovna Goncharova, brought up three children alone.
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Of the prevalent corruption at the time, he later said:
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to strip him of the post. In 1997, Rokhlin formed the
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Lev Rokhlin, Jewish general and critic of Yeltsin, 51
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After he retired in 1995, Rokhlin was elected to the
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In March 1987 Rokhlin was appointed commander of the
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