(Source: mil.ru) Russian Special Operations Forces: Image Versus Substance Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 16 Issue: 43 By: Sergey Sukhankin (https://jamestown.org/analyst/sergey-sukhankin/) March 27, 2019 05:31 PM Age: 2 months Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated members of the country’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) on their professional day, February 27 (inaugurated in 2015), underscoring this service’s instrumentality in the “eradication of terrorists in Syria and securing peace in Crimea and Sevastopol during the historical referendum [sic]” (TASS (https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/6167181), February 27). Russia took its first concrete steps toward creating a stand-alone SOF (https://jamestown.org/) Search ..