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Jul 7 • 9 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
1/ Russian construction firms are reportedly being told to send their workers to fight in Ukraine or face losing lucractive contracts from the city of Moscow. It illustrates an ongoing 'hidden mobilisation' as Russia uses every possible option to find manpower for the war. ⬇️
2/ The independent Russian news outlet Verstka reports that the Moscow city authorities have told "at least two major construction companies to find several dozen volunteers who will agree to sign a contract for military service and go to the war zone in Ukraine."
3/ According to a source in one of the companies, the office of Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin has told them to provide at least 30 volunteers by the end of August. Most Moscow construction companies are said to have received the same instruction.
4/ "Earlier, every village had to field recruits. Now it's every corporation," says the source.

Another source says that a similar demand was made of another major constuction firm.
5/ The companies are being required to find people to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defence to serve in Ukraine in exchange for contracts with Moscow.

It's not clear how compulsory these demands are. A source says: "It is always formulated with the word 'asked', 'decreed'.
6/ "This is all very conceptual. It is not customary to talk in ultimatums at all. There is no such thing as 'in exchange for this, we give you that'. But everyone understands everything, those who have been working in Moscow for a long time".
7/ The pressure may not be explicit, but Moscow's size and wealth likely makes it hard for firms to resist such demands. As Russia's capital and largest city, it also has by far the largest budget and greatest expenditure on construction, so it has a lot of bargaining power.
8/ Moscow's city budget in 2023-24 will be between 4.2–4.4 trillion rubles ($48 billion). In 2023, it plans to spend over 800 billion rubles ($8.7 billion) on new highways, roads, housing, repair work and sports facilities. Constructors can't afford to ignore its demands. /end
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Jul 8
1/ Police in Chechnya are accused of abducting, torturing and robbing two Russian soldiers. According to a complaint submitted by one of the men, they were abducted from their own base in the republic. The case illustrates the Russian military's vulnerability to criminals. ⬇️
2/ The incident is reported by the Sapa Telegram channel to have taken place at the base of the 70th Motorised Rifle Regiment (70th MRR) at Borzoy in Chechnya. A five-page complaint, summarised by Sapa, describes what is alleged to have happened.
3/ The unnamed complainant is a contract (professional) soldier with the 70th MRR. According to his complaint, on 22 May 2023 one of his friends was detained by Chechen police on his way back to the base after loading military equipment at Khankala railway station, 63 km away.
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Jul 7
1/ Many ordinary Russians reached with eagerness and excitement to the Wagner Group's mutiny – from the woman who cancelled sex to await the Wagnerites' arrival, to the many who went out on the streets to take selfies with them. It indicates a widespread desire for change. ⬇️
2/ The independent Russian media outlet Verstka has been interviewing people in Rostov, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Moscow and Simferopol who followed Yevgeny Prigozhin's "March for Justice", and in some cases saw it first-hand.
3/ Their accounts reveal a widespread impression of Prigozhin as a straight-talking 'man of the people' and of his fighters as being honourable and polite people. Many interviewees also spoke of him as an agent of long overdue change.
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Jul 7
1/ A Russian religious conscientious objector with a one-year-old child has been sentenced to nearly three years' imprisonment for refusing a mobilisation order. The case illustrates how Russia's laws on conscientious objection are being ignored by the state. ⬇️
2/ Andrey K. is a 28-year-old air traffic controller from Magadan in the Russian Far East. When mobilisation was announced in September 2022, he was given a draft order and told he would serve as a mechanised rifleman, despite having a prior exemption from mobilisation.
3/ "The shift supervisor told me to come to the personnel department, they handed me a summons right away. No one explained anything, they didn't clarify anything, didn't conduct medical fitness examinations.
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Jul 6
1/ Russian propagandists making an anti-Ukrainian, anti-LGBT film staged a fake 'gay parade' in Moscow with Ukrainian and rainbow flags. Unfortunately they forgot to notify the authorities and were denounced to the police by outraged citizens, leading to an investigation. ⬇️
2/ The Greek-Russian director Konstantin Charalampidis is making a propaganda movie called "Europe Day", set in Ukraine. It's being funded by the Internet Development Institute, which finances propaganda projects under the guise of "patriotic" Internet content.
3/ The filmmakers have been using Moscow's Vvedenskoe cemetery in the Lefortovo district of Moscow as a stand-in for a Kyiv burial ground. The Russian film magazine 'Vsluh!' ('Aloud!') reports that the scene being filmed is set in Kyiv on 9 May, when the end of WW2 is marked.
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1/ Military recruitment in Russia's prisons is reported to have slumped following the failure of the Wagner Group's mutiny. Prisoners rioted in support of Yevgeny Prigozhin during the mutiny, but are now 'apathetic' and regard him as a traitor. ⬇️
2/ Olga Romanova, the head of the 'Russia Behind Bars' prisoners' rights group, says that prisoners are now feeling "depressed" and there has been a profound loss of faith in both Prigozhin and the Russian Ministry of Defence.
3/ Prior to January 2023, the Wagner Group recruited tens of thousands of convicts from prison colonies across Russia, with Prigozhin – himself a former convict – personally travelling to prisons on recruitment visits. He was reportedly a highly effective recruiter.
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Jul 6
1/ Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly claims that Russian security forces stole valuable items and money from his house, and that he's recorded the thefts on hidden networked cameras. He is said to be planning to reveal the footage soon. ⬇️
2/ Pictures from the search were published yesterday, showing gold bars, stacks of cash and a fine collection of wigs. However, the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports, some of the finds 'stuck' to the fingers of the searchers.
3/ A VChK-OGPU source says that "in the near future Prigozhin plans to announce that during the search of his personal property law enforcers stole valuable items and money. This was allegedly caught on hidden surveillance camera footage, which went unnoticed."
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