Historian Ilya Budraitskis explains how the regime subjugated the whole history of Russia Each speech of Vladimir Putin is “historical”. Propagandists use this word, emphasizing the meaning of presidential theses for the future of the world. The rest call Putin’s performances so, simply pointing to his constant references to the past.

In November, the mobilized Russians began to complain en masse about refusals from banks in credit holidays. Dozens of such complaints were published, in particular, on the Banki.ru portal. Among the complainants were clients of large Russian banks, including Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank and others.

The widow of the deputy head of the Pacific Higher Naval School, Vadim Boyko, who shot himself at his workplace on November 16, wrote an open appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which she said that her husband was appointed responsible for receiving mobilized, then for preparing equipment and conscripts, and after that threatened him with a heavy fine and a criminal case. According to Yulia Boyko, her husband was a specialist in the field of weapons on ships.

The Russian military, who were kept in basements in the Donbass for two weeks because they refused to fight, demanded that the Investigative Committee initiate criminal cases under articles of unlawful imprisonment, kidnapping and abuse of power.

The head of Sakhalin, Valery Limarenko, during a meeting with the mothers and wives of the mobilized, suggested that they go to the annexed Donetsk People's Republic to find out on the spot what the servicemen need. According to Limarenko, after meeting with relatives of the mobilized, a “public group of wives and mothers of servicemen” was created, the members of which will be able to take turns traveling to the territory of the annexed DPR. The trips will be paid for by United Russia.

The OVD-Info project drew attention to the fact that on August 2, the Ussuriysky District Court of the Primorsky Territory sentenced local resident Fyodor Erbes to six months of correctional labor because of a video about the war that he sent on WhatsApp. Also, according to the court decision, for six months, five percent of Erbes’ salary will be withheld in favor of the state.

In the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School, one of the mobilized shot himself in the foot. Sibir.Realii writes about this, referring to its own sources among the mobilized. According to them, the man wounded himself intentionally to avoid being sent to the war zone in Ukraine. “His neighbor in the tent said that the guy was seized literally at the house, he himself did not want to go to war, but he had no way to hide from the military registration and enlistment office.

A source close to the Latvian Foreign Ministry said that New Europe journalist Ilya Azar was mistakenly not allowed on the Berlin-Riga flight. Earlier, the same was confirmed by Air Baltic, on whose flight Azar was supposed to fly. “The Foreign Ministry confirmed that the rules remain the same. Presumably, there was a misunderstanding somewhere,” a source close to the Latvian Foreign Ministry told Kholod. In response to a request from Novaya Gazeta.

Historian Konstantin Sholmov published an archival document, which shows that Vladimir Putin participated in searches of Soviet dissidents. The document is presented at the Museum of Political History of St. Petersburg. As follows from the document, Lieutenant Putin, in particular, conducted a search of the well-known writer and dissident of the Soviet era, Oleg Volkov.

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Picketer Andrey Kalashnikov was detained in Belgorod, who stood with a poster "Hug if you are for peace" near the Eternal Flame. Alena Maltseva, an activist from Yabloko, who was photographing the action, was also detained with him. The security forces explained the detention of Kalashnikov with suspicion of "stealing food." Maltseva is also suspected of fraud. Source: OVD-Info To get top news faster, subscribe to our telegram and twitter .

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Samara activist and libertarian Yegor Beschastnov was detained when he was at a notary's appointment. He was taken to the military registration and enlistment office, where a draft board was convened. On November 25, Beschastny, according to his colleagues, received a call from a district police officer who asked when the young man would be able to approach the military enlistment office.

The American corporation Apple this year may lose about six million iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max due to protests at the Apple Inc. production center. in Zhengzhou, China. Bloomberg writes about it. According to the source of the publication, the situation at the Foxconn factory, where smartphones are assembled, remains unstable. Severe coronavirus restrictions that were introduced at the enterprise led to mass layoffs of some employees and protests of others.

Project “Support for political prisoners. Memorial recognized journalist Ivan Safronov as a political prisoner, who was sentenced to 22 years of strict regime in the case of treason. The project reported that it considers Safronov a political prisoner, because, as the analysis of the indictment made by the "Proekt" shows, the FSB did not prove the journalist's guilt.