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Traffic jam near Russia's border with Georgia, 25 September 2022
Russia admits mobilization errors, amid growing public opposition
People bid farewell to army reservists in the Omsk region, Russia.MOSCOW — The Kremlin has admitted mistakes were made in its drive to mobilize Russian army reservists to fight in Ukraine, amid growing public opposition."There are cases when the decree is violated," Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said, adding that "all the errors will be corrected".Multiple reports say people with no military experience - or who are too old or disabled - are being called up.Last week's mobilization decree has already triggered widespread protests.President Putin announced what he described as partial mobilization on 21 September, with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu later saying 300,000 reservists would be called up.However, reports in opposition Russian media...
September 27, 2022

Russia admits mobilization errors, amid growing public opposition

Edward Snowden in this file photo.
Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship
MOSCOW — Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked extensive US intelligence surveillance operations, has been granted Russian citizenship.The decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday.Snowden, 39, has been living in exile in Russia since exposing the National Security Agency (NSA) program affecting millions of Americans in 2013.Snowden, who faces espionage charges in the US, has made no public comments.In 2020, the NSA surveillance of millions of Americans' telephone records was ruled unlawful by the US Court of Appeals.Snowden said afterwards that he felt vindicated by the ruling.Top US intelligence officials had publicly insisted the NSA had never knowingly collected data from private phone records, until Snowden exposed evidence to the...
September 26, 2022

Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship

Queues at a check point on the Russia-Mongolia border.
Russians flee to Mongolia after Putin's mobilization order
MOSCOW — Protests, drafting errors and a mass exodus of eligible reservist troops have wreaked havoc with Russia’s recent military mobilization.Last week, President Vladimir Putin announced more people were needed to fight Russia's war in Ukraine.It sparked a surge in online searches for flights and prices soared on routes from Moscow to Istanbul and Belgrade.At Russia's border with Mongolia, there were lines of vehicles and people. The head of a checkpoint in the town of Altanbulag said more than 3,000 Russians had entered Mongolia via the crossing since Wednesday, most of them men.Meanwhile, in Dagestan, one of Russia’s poorer regions, anti-war demonstrators clashed with police.Officers fired warning shots to try to disperse more than 100 people who blocked a highway while...
September 26, 2022

Russians flee to Mongolia after Putin's mobilization order

Security services arrive at the scene of the shooting
Deadly gun attack at Russian school
MOSCOW — A gunman has opened fire at a school in central Russia, killing at least 13 people and injuring 21, Russian officials say.Victims include seven children at the school of about 1,000 pupils in the city of Izhevsk.The gunman killed himself at the scene. He was a former pupil of the school.Russian media have posted videos which appear to show panic inside the building where the shooting took place.Some footage shows blood on a classroom floor and a bullet hole in a window, with children crouching down underneath desks.Seven children and six adults were killed, including two security guards and two teachers, according to Russian officials. Staff and pupils have been evacuated from the school buildings.One local MP said the attacker - named as Artem Kazantsev- had been armed with two...
September 26, 2022

Deadly gun attack at Russian school

Giorgia Meloni
Italy's far right on course to win election
ROME — Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has claimed victory in Italy's election, and is on course to become the country's first female prime minister.Ms Meloni is widely expected to form Italy's most right-wing government since World War Two.That will alarm much of Europe as Italy is the EU's third-biggest economy.However, speaking after the vote, Ms Meloni said her Brothers of Italy party would "govern for everyone" and would not betray people's trust."Italians have sent a clear message in favour of a right-wing government led by Brothers of Italy," she told reporters in Rome, holding up a sign saying "Thank you Italy".She is set to win 26% of the vote, based on provisional results, ahead of her closest rival Enrico Letta from the centre...
September 26, 2022

Italy's far right on course to win election

Mark Fullbrook is chief of staff to British Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Truss’s top aide Fullbrook paid by his own lobbying firm
LONDON — The PM’s closest aide Mark Fullbrook is not paid directly by the government — but instead gets his salary via a private firm, it has emerged.Opposition parties have described the arrangement as “shocking” and called for an urgent investigation into possible conflicts of interest.Liz Truss appointed Fullbrook as her chief of staff earlier this month.His salary is reported to be paid via his own lobbying firm Fullbrook Strategies, which was set up in March.This is despite the fact that the firm’s website saying it “has currently suspended its commercial activities”.A spokesperson for Fullbrook told BBC News: “This is not an unusual arrangement. It was not put in place for tax purposes and Fullbrook derives no tax benefit from it.”However, the spokesperson did not...
September 25, 2022

Truss’s top aide Fullbrook paid by his own lobbying firm

A protester is arrested in Dagestan — courtesy Telegram
Protests in Russian Dagestan region against new draft
MOSCOW — Demonstrators in Russia's Dagestan region have clashed with police, in the latest protests to break out against Moscow's new "partial mobilization".Footage posted to social media showed locals tussling with officers in the regional capital of Makhachkala.And the OVD-Info group, an independent Russian human rights monitor, said it was concerned by reports of "very tough detentions" occurring in the region.Dagestan is a mainly Muslim region of Russia once noted for intense violence.While large protests have taken place in major cities across Russia in recent days — with more than 700 people being arrested on Saturday alone — the images of Dagestani demonstrators fighting with police marks a rare outbreak of violence against authorities.Dozens of...
September 25, 2022

Protests in Russian Dagestan region against new draft

A group of protestors demonstrate in front of the Iranian Embassy in the UK capital London over the weekend. — courtesy Twitter
Hundreds gather in London over the death of Mahsa Amini
LONDON — Hundreds of people protested in London this weekend to voice their anger about the suspicious death of Mahsa Amini, alongside the Iranian government's violent suppression of continued nationwide demonstrations back home.Footage circulating online on Sunday appeared to show a group of protestors surging toward the Iranian Embassy in the UK capital but being beaten back by police.A separate image shows the building, which overlooks Hyde Park, splattered with red paint."People are being killed, tortured and harmed in silence," Sepideh Eskandari, who protested at Trafalgar Square with her friend Sogol on Saturday, told Euronews."We are here to be their voice and ask every other person — from where ever they are — to stand with women.""Basic rights...
September 25, 2022

Hundreds gather in London over the death of Mahsa Amini

A protester is being arrested by Russian police as demonstrations against the partial mobilization continue across the country.
Hundreds arrested as Russian draft protests continue
MOSCOW — Hundreds of people have been arrested by authorities as protests against Russia’s new “partial mobilization” continue across the country, an independent rights group has said.OVD-Info said 724 people were detained across 32 different cities on Saturday.Widespread demonstrations have broken out since President Vladimir Putin announced plans to draft 300,000 men to fight in Ukraine. Unsanctioned rallies are banned under Russian law.But Putin’s move to draft civilians into the military has sparked large-scale protests in urban areas, with more than 1,000 people being detained at demonstrations earlier this week.In Moscow, news agency AFP reported witnessing one demonstrator shouting “we are not cannon fodder” as she was arrested by officers.And in St Petersburg,...
September 24, 2022

Hundreds arrested as Russian draft protests continue

Gen. Dmitry Bulgakov
Putin fires deputy defense chief Bulgakov amid supply failures
MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin has fired the general charged with managing the Russian military's faltering logistics operations in Ukraine.Gen, Dmitry Bulgakov, deputy defense minister, was removed from his role on Saturday, the Defense Ministry said on Telegram. The ministry said the 67-year-old was "released" to transfer into a new role.He will be replaced by Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev, who managed Moscow's brutal siege at the port city of Mariupol.Gen. Bulgakov has run the military's logistics operations since 2008 and was responsible for keeping Russian troops supplied after their deployment to Syria in 2015.But observers say he has become sidelined in Moscow in recent months, with many blaming him for the chaotic logistics operations that have dogged Russia's...
September 24, 2022

Putin fires deputy defense chief Bulgakov amid supply failures

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