es Vienna, September 25, 2022
Meduza, the amazing Russian publication-in-exile, reported last night on what Putin has now inflicted on his own people, as well as on Ukraine: As of 9:06pm Moscow time the project knew of 707 arrests in 32 cities. Most of those arrested were in Moscow
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(over 300 people), St. Petersburg (over 100), and Novosibirsk (around 70). Insiders believe a secret protocol in Putin’s “partial mobilisation” could mean 1.2m million more conscripts being sent to Ukraine, especially from poorer parts of Russia. However, the Chechen leader said the call-up would not apply to Chechnya, 20,000 of whose citizens had already been sent to Ukraine.
- Guardian, London, today: Day 214 of Putin’s war puts arrests at over 2,000. Live news
- profil, Vienna 25/09/22 What of Putin really set off a nuke? (in DE, try right-click or Deepl.com to translate) and How do Ukrainian refugees communicate with each other?
- Novaya Gazeta 24/09/22 Polemic about sending a million men off to die (video)
- storymaps.arcgis.com Interactive maps of the conflict
- Meduza interviewed two independent journalists now operating from outside Russia to find out how they’re managing this job.
- Project Syndicate 30/08/22 Prof Slavoj Žižek on Ukraine’s Tale of Two Colonizations