Retreat under Kherson and the search for a nuclear threat, Russian-Saudi reciprocal oil blow and 700 thousand left Olga Maltseva/AFP/East News @ The Russian army continues to retreat quickly - this time in the south. In just three days of the Ukrainian offensive in the Kherson region of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the entire northern part of the right bank of the Dnieper had to be left.

In the Pskov region, mobile recruiting stations have been deployed today at the checkpoint with Estonia and Latvia, said the governor of the region, Mikhail Vedernikov. The situation at these border posts is no less difficult than a few days ago in the queue at the border with Georgia in Upper Lars . The only difference is that mostly Russians lined up at the Russian-Georgian checkpoint, while Ukrainian families are trying to leave for Europe.

In less than two weeks from the moment the mobilization was announced, 600-700 thousand citizens left Russia, Forbes reports , citing a source in the presidential administration. According to another interlocutor of the publication, familiar with the Kremlin's estimates, we are talking about the departure of almost a million people from the country. It is not possible now to calculate how many of them left Russia for tourism purposes.

Not even Russia’s state-run television channels could overlook Moscow’s second major military defeat, however, and the search for scapegoats led to unprecedented public criticism of the Russian military by the leaders of paramilitary groups fighting in Ukraine.

Putin formally signed Friday a document allowing the accession of four occupied Ukrainian territories to the Russian Federation. The ceremony took place in the Kremlin’s St George Hall where, eight years earlier, Putin signed the order formalizing the annexation of Crimea. As usual at such events, watching the faces of Russia’s ruling elite as they waited for the perennially delayed president, was illuminating.

Hello! This week we focus on public disagreements between factions of Russia’s pro-war lobby following Moscow’s second successive military rout in Ukraine. The heads of two major paramilitary groups, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, both of whom have a long history of grievance with the Defense Ministry, led the criticism of Russian military’s top brass over the weekend.

The Western media are considering several options for a limited nuclear escalation that Russia could go for. What is known about them and how is their probability estimated? In the last week, a number of publications appeared in the Western media about possible real scenarios for the use of nuclear weapons by the Russian side - from the delivery of tactical nuclear weapons to the testing of Doomsday weapons.

The number of mobilized people who arrived in the Russian Armed Forces exceeds 200,000 people, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. According to the Ministry of Defense, 300,000 should be called up during the mobilization, estimates up to 1.2 million appeared in the media. “In accordance with the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, a partial mobilization has been carried out in the country since September 21.

The corresponding decree was published on the website of the President of Ukraine. It consolidates the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine of September 30. “To state the impossibility of holding negotiations with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin,” the document says. The reason for this decree was the process of joining the LPR, DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to Russia.

There was a sharp peak in the Moscow secondary housing market associated with mobilization. Unlike March, this is not the peak of demand, but of supply. For the rest of the week after the announcement of partial mobilization on Wednesday, September 21, the number of applications for the urgent sale of apartments in Moscow has tripled, and for the whole of September, supply on the secondary market of the capital increased by 20%, Kommersant writes with reference to IRN.ru and . CIAN Analytics.

In Russia, for the first time in history, mobile Internet traffic decreased by 2.5% in the second quarter. The main reason is the blocking of some traffic-intensive services (Facebook and Instagram, owned by the recognized extremist Meta) and the departure of some of them (TikTok) from Russia. In the second quarter, the consumption of mobile Internet in Russia for the first time decreased, writes Izvestia with reference to the materials of the Ministry of Digital Development.

A sharp peak appeared on the Moscow secondary housing market, which is unequivocally connected with mobilization. Unlike March, this is not the peak of demand, but of supply. Four days after the announcement of partial mobilization on September 21, the number of applications for the urgent sale of apartments in Moscow has tripled, and in September, supply on the secondary market of the capital increased by 20%, Kommersant writes with reference to IRN.ru and CIAN.Analytika.

The government is developing a set of measures to support businessmen during mobilization, writes Vedomosti . The owner will be allowed to remain the owner (now military personnel are prohibited from owning a business, even through proxies) and will be given two weeks before being called to put things in order. Measures to support small and medium-sized businesses during partial mobilization were discussed at a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov on September 28.

It may seem that the movement of investors money across the borders is blocked. But there are so far options for investing in foreign economies. One of them is Dubai. The capital of hundreds of wealthy Russian -speaking people from around the world “move” here, and 9 out of 10 investors choose real estate as an asset.

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