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Articles with tag "Mobilization"

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How Russia’s Diamond Republic Finds Manpower for Putin’s Army

Free Yakutia Foundation and From the Republics explore how and why residents of the republic of Sakha enlist to fight in Ukraine.

Russian Lawmakers Scrap Bill Allowing Draft Deferments for Fathers

“A man must protect his family, our society and our state, and then think and take care of providing for his family,” lawmaker Andrei Krasov said.
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Women Relatives of Mobilized Soldiers Stage Sit-In at Russian Defense Ministry

“We’ve brought sleeping bags and everything we need to wait for when we’ll finally be heard,” one woman could be heard telling a police officer...
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Branded ‘Foreign Agents,’ Wives and Mothers of Mobilized Russian Soldiers Face Uncertain Future

Political differences and increased law enforcement pressure have fractured the group, putting its future potential to enact change into doubt.
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Putin Says Almost 700K Russian Troops Fighting in Ukraine

Moscow rarely talks about the losses it has sustained through the war, which it still calls a "special military operation."
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Mobilized Soldiers' Relatives Call for Russian Officials' Sons to Replace Their Loved Ones

“We demand to replace our men with other quite specific men: the children and husbands of those who tell our citizens from the screens that war is good...
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Relatives of Mobilized Russian Soldiers Protest Outside Defense Ministry

Around 15 women, some with small children, gathered outside the building holding up hand-written placards saying "Bring my mobilized husband home."
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Russia Labels Wives of Mobilized Soldiers Group ‘Foreign Agent'

The Justice Ministry said the group had worked to create a "negative image" of the Russian army and called for illegal protests.
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How Russia’s ‘Covert Mobilization’ Finds Manpower for the War in Ukraine

Activists say the army is luring new recruits with promises of high salaries and social benefits as well as intimidation tactics and even violence.
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Russian Military Boosts Call-Ups for Annual Reservist Training Exercises

Military commissariats in the Moscow region have sent a flurry of demands to companies to provide lists of employees eligible for reserve duty.
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Kremlin Planning New Mobilization for Kharkiv Offensive – Vyorstka

Moscow will reportedly seek to reach its target through a range of recruitment strategies without officially declaring a second mobilization.
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Putin’s Victory ‘Spit in the Face,’ Wives of Mobilized Soldiers Say

“The election results didn’t come as a surprise to us. But 87% is outright falsification, a blatant spit in our face,” the group of wives said.
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Arrests at Moscow Protest by Wives of Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine

A video published by SOTA on Telegram showed police detaining two people wearing yellow vests with "Press" written on them.
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Leading Yakutian Activist Refuses to Give Up on Region’s Free Future

Sargylana Kondakova's group has helped hundreds of conscientious objectors, supported persecuted activists and combatted pro-Kremlin propaganda.
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White Scarves and Flowers: Wives and Mothers of Mobilized Soldiers Take Resentment to the Kremlin

In one of Putin's biggest domestic political challenges, women relatives of men who were mobilized for the war in Ukraine are demanding their return.
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Russia Refuses to Limit ‘Indefinite’ Service of Mobilized Soldiers – Opposition Member

Calls to impose a one-year service limit for mobilized troops have been championed by groups of mobilized soldiers’ wives and mothers in recent months...
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Families of Mobilized Russian Soldiers Call On Putin to End War in Ukraine

“Let us live in peace! Or go to the front line yourself and die there,” the group of soldiers' relatives told Vladimir Putin in a message shared on...
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opinion Alexander Finiarel

Russia’s Election Gives Ukraine an Opportunity to Rebuild Forces

Mobilization is hugely unpopular, so Putin’s hands are tied until the presidential election. Ukraine can use this window to expand its military.
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Families Ask Putin to Return Mobilized Troops From Ukraine

“We’re against legalized slavery,” said members of Put’ Domoi (“Way Home”), a group of soldiers' wives and mothers calling for an end to mobilization...
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Relatives of Mobilized Russian Soldiers Launch Cross-Country Sticker Protest

Images of the anti-mobilization car stickers were shared by a group of relatives calling for the return of their loved ones from the front.
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