Difficulties with loved ones, poor health, belief in conspiracy theories and total disappointment Three years have passed since Vladimir Putin made one of the most unpopular decisions - he mobilized more than half a million people for the war with Ukraine (this follows from registry office data analyzed by Mediazona ). Farmers, electricians, minibus drivers, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, teachers and sellers set out to take over the neighboring state.

For each person recruited to SVO they pay a bonus of up to 100 thousand rubles Police officers in Russia receive bonuses from 10 to 100 thousand rubles for each detainee who has entered into a contract with the Ministry of Defense. Almost 12% of suspects go to fight before trial and investigation. This follows from data from “Layout” sources in the police for June 2025.

A hospital with barbed wire and months of waiting for prosthetics The war in Ukraine, according to the first unofficial data alone, disabled more than one hundred thousand Russian military personnel. At least half of them, according to the Ministry of Labor, suffered amputations. Officials call such men “heroes” and promise to surround them with care. One of the showcase projects of such “care” is the Voronovskoye rehabilitation center in Moscow.

Report from the selection point for contract service in Moscow Contract workers in Moscow are paid almost two million rubles by the city authorities for signing an agreement with the Ministry of Defense. Therefore, since August 2024, in the Butyrsky district of the capital, there has been a queue of men aged 18 to 65 from all over Russia who have come to sign up for the war. Women also come.

The Ukrainian veteran went through captivity, torture, friendship with the Russian major - and fled with his family to Europe. Now he scolds everyone, but thinks about returning to war Vitaliy Manzhos. The collage uses photos of Ivan Pugachev When the bag was removed from the head of Vitaly Manzhos, they shot him in his knees and groin and slammed the door to the basement, he did not lose consciousness. - I look, I have one leg complete blood, the second leg complete blood.

“He should have the right not to fight?” Olesya Gerasimenko June 03, 2024 | Those mobilized who do not want to fight are not tried, but beaten and sent to the front by force In Russian regions, hundreds of mobilized people who refused to fight with Ukraine began to be sent by force to the front. Those who resist are beaten and tied up.

“300 thousand snouts are missing” Olesya Gerasimenko, Ivan Zhadayev, editors of “Layout” March 22, 2024 | Immediately after the elections, the authorities may be preparing to mobilize The Ministry of Defense is planning a massive recruitment into the army and is preparing for covert mobilization to encircle Kharkov. Those who are currently protecting the borders from shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Belgorod and Kursk will be sent to besiege the largest city in eastern Ukraine.

“Your son is in our captivity. Call Putin" Olesya Gerasimenko March 21, 2024 | How an escaped contract soldier who refused to fight ended up in the war again, was captured and will most likely go to prison “Layout” tells the story of a Russian artilleryman who captured Bucha, after which he fled from the front, received a suspended sentence for this, but again ended up in the war - and after three weeks near Kremennaya he was captured by Ukrainian intelligence officers.

“Listen, it’s worse here than hell.” Olesya Gerasimenko February 23, 2024 | Extrajudicial killings hidden in the Russian army The closer to the line of fire and the longer there is no vacation, the tougher the relations between the soldiers of the Russian army become. The military says that former prisoners especially “go wild” with hopelessness - and take it out on their mobilized colleagues. For refusing to fight, they are tied to trees and put in pits by the officers themselves.

The news that the odious Orthodox activist, the opponent of gays and abortions Dmitry Enteo is excluded from his own movement “God's will” for an affair with Pussy Riot participant Maria Alyokhina, looked as wild as possible. He went out to the court, where the case of dancing in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was considered, and demanded that Alyokhina sat down. A few years later they will meet personally to talk. So the story will begin about how love wins obscurantism and polar views.

Olesya Gerasimenko (recognized by the authorities of the Russian Federation by the ino -agent) about Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bukovsky and Limonov “Gorky” launches a new section “plowed” - about books that are sunk into the soul and change our life. The first about the most secret - a tattoo with a quote from Bukovsky, a funny Dostoevsky and love for Limonov - says journalist Olesya Gerasimenko.