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VLADIVOSTOK, November 15. /Offset. TASS Natalia Nikulina/. The troops of the Eastern military district (OIE) in 2016, joined 15 million contract, more than a thousand of them have received higher education and have chosen military service under the contract instead of compulsory military service, said Tuesday TASS the head of press service TSB Colonel Alexander Gordeev.