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2022-12-06 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia continues to save the Soviet legacy

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Posted by badanov 2022-12-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Nikiforov is a well known name in Russia. Recently we have this:
Russian recruits at a railway station in Prudboi, Volgograd region, 29 September. Photograph: AP
Andrew Roth in Moscow; 15 Oct 2022
Andrei Nikiforov, a lawyer from St Petersburg, was one of the hundreds of thousands of Russians mobilised since last month to hold the frontlines in his country’s faltering war in Ukraine.
On 25 September he received his call-up papers. By 7 October, just two weeks later, he was dead.
“We don’t know what happened,” said Alexander Zelensky, the head of the Nevsky Collegium of Lawyers, of which Nikiforov was a member. Zelensky and a member of Nikiforov’s family confirmed his call-up and death. “All we have is a date and a place.” That place was Lysychansk, one of the most dangerous spots near the frontlines. The first coffins are now returning..., bringing the remains of ordinary Russians who at first were promised a quick “special military operation” and now have been drafted to go and fight in a war.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2022-12-06 11:37|| 2022-12-06 11:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Russian conscript Boris's mother: "He go and he fight and I hope they put him on the front line."

Posted by jpal 2022-12-06 15:15|| 2022-12-06 15:15|| Front Page Top

#3 This is like saving the pits from an avocado.

Posted by ed in texas 2022-12-06 19:22|| 2022-12-06 19:22|| Front Page Top

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