The British military undertook “intensive military cooperation" with Russia while it was killing civilians in Chechnya in 1995, declassified files show Thirty-seven Russian army officers were given two weeks of military training in Britain in September 1995, declassified files show. The “intensive military cooperation” involved the Russians “driving tanks and firing a range of weapons”, and was paid for by Britain under then prime minister John Major’s government. The programme was meant to assist Russia “in developing well-trained, democratically accountable forces”, a Ministry of Defence (MoD) document available at the National Archives states. Aimed at middle-ranking Russian officers ranging from the…