Category: Collapse of Russia

The world will obviously never be the same after the war. Deputy Head of the Kalmyk Oirat People Congress Vladimir Dovadanov shares with Free Idel-Ural his take on possible scenarios of the situation development in the post-war Russia and future prospects of indeginous people.

Human rights activists think that “someone desperately wants promotion for searching “spies””. 

“Idel.Realii” referring to the “First department” human rights protection project that FSB summon the relatives of those who left Russia and persuade them to talk those leaving Russia over.

Since the war started, many requests were made on consultation from people against whom FSB wanted to open criminal cases. Many people have left Russia since that time. However, now the project notes that their family members are summoned to talk to FSB and persuade their family members to return to Russia. 

Human right activists consider that “most likely someone wants to get the promotion for searching for spies.”

“First department” knows about at least five cases. 

The forced boundary revision of Russia has started. Today, the Estonian parliament is considering the government’s offer to recall the signature under the agreement on land and sea borders with Russia as of February 18, 2014.

On February 26, Kazakhstan citizen Abdi Zinullin was going to have dinner with his sister in a restaurant in Moscow, but he was fined 20K rubles and was imprisoned for more than a month. The reason behind this arrest was “non-Russian” appearance. Putin punishers reach their detainment statistics taking advantage of such people. The independent Russian human rights project aimed at fighting with political repressions OVD-Info shared Abdi Zinullin’s story. 

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Materials prepared by Liza Tumanova for the Free Idel-Ural civic movement

According to TabloID, if President Putin wanted to dispel the rumors of him being intimidated to let anyone approach him, as well as on having Parkinson disease, by meeting his Minister of Defense Serhiy Shoigu, it didn’t work out.

According to the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the documents, obtained by Ukrainian intelligence officers, prove that after the electoral fraud in Belarus, the Russian armed forces elaborated a plan on invasion and suppression of civil commotions.  

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Compiled by Liza Tumanova for Free Idel-Ural

Jokes about the magnificent “equipment” of the Russian soldiers resurface from time to time. The latest discovery are rotten bulletproof vests that were given to Russian soldiers before they were dispatched to Ukraine. It seems that after finding out about field rations with an expiry date in 2015 there can be nothing to be surprised about. However, Russia always finds a way to prove the opposite. 

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Compiled by Liza Tumanova for Free Idel-Ural.

Former Putin adviser Vladislav Surkov is under a house arrest. Investigations into the Donbass theft cases since 2014 are underway. This was announced by the former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, who cited his sources. Ponomarev was a confidant of Surkov and worked at the Skolkovo Foundation.

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By Liza Tumanova for “Free Idel-Ural”.

Opinion of Juraj Mesik, the expert of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, for Evropeiska pravda (European Truth – Ukrainian online newspaper)

Having made its “goodwill gesture”, that is, having shamefully fled from all over the north of Ukraine (even as it was bashfully colored in strokes on fresh Russian maps), Russia finally managed to count the chickens before they hatched. That is reported by CNN.

Article is prepared for the “Free Idel-Ural”.

The Internet is spreading a photo with the inscription in the toilet “And who allowed you to live well?” This phrase in various variations also sounds from the mouths of Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine and can become the true motto of this military campaign.