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Volkonski wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:54 pm Russia will choose only the best and send the rest back home.

Volkonski wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:54 pm Julia Davis
@JuliaDavisNews
Head of RT Margarita Simonyan predicted that Russia's demographic crisis will be resolved in the future, when streams of Americans will flood to Russia—even if they have to work fixing toilets. Russia will choose only the best and send the rest back home.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 5:44 pm I wonder how many Americans will take up the offer for free Russian citizenship and passport after a stint on the Russian side at the Ukraine war front

Russian politician and writer Zakhar Prilepin has called for the annexation of countries along Russia's border "where migrant workers come to us from," sparking condemnation from Uzbekistan.

Prilepin, a prominent Russian ultranationalist voice and a staunch supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, made the remarks while discussing the issue of migrant workers in Russia.

He injured in May after the car he was in blew up in the western Nizhny Novgorod region. Kyiv's security services neither confirmed nor denied having a role in the incident. Prilepin is wanted for war crimes in Ukraine.

"I actually still sincerely advocate that these territories, where migrant workers come to us from, should just be annexed and to teach them the Russian language there. Not to teach them here, but there, in Uzbekistan," Prilepin said at a press conference on Wednesday according to Meduza, an independent Russian-language news outlet based in Latvia.

In response, the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Russian Ambassador to Uzbekistan Oleg Malginov and said that "such rash statements" do not correspond with Uzbekistan and Russia's strategic partnership.

Russians have warned that the public may incite an armed insurrection over the Kremlin's treatment of mobilized soldiers in Ukraine.

The warning was issued by relatives of Russian men drafted under President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilization in late 2022, amid reports that soldiers are being prohibited from leaving the military despite completing their terms.

State Duma Defense Committee Chairman Andrey Kartapolov said in September 2023 that Russian men drafted for the war won't be rotated out of Ukraine until the conflict is over. He also told Russian news outlet Fontanka in an interview published on Tuesday that "there is no need to dismiss anyone."

"Every citizen of the Russian Federation liable for military service must be ready at any time, at the behest of the Motherland, to come and complete the task," Kartapolov added.

The Moscow Telegraph, which has nearly 90,000 subscribers, collated several reactions from relatives of the mobilized on social media, writing: "Families of the mobilized predict an armed uprising."

Anton Gerashchenko
@Gerashchenko_en
Massive outages of hot water, heat and electricity are happening across Russia, Russian media report.

Following the residents of the Moscow region, who continue to complain en masse about the lack of heating, Russians are freezing in Tver region.

Residents of a house in the village of Novozavidovsky say they are being "killed by the cold." It's freezing outside, and the temperature in their apartments is around +4℃. The locals have already appealed to all possible authorities, but no one has helped them.

"There are no hostilities, but we live like in besieged Leningrad," locals complain.

On January 9, heating also disappeared in residential buildings in Saratov, Khanty-Mansiysk District, Vladimir, Penza, and several cities near Moscow: Solnechnogorsk, Kuznetsk, and numerous cottage communities.

Volkonski wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:44 pm Russians' Stark 'Armed Insurrection' Warning Amid Mobilization Backlash

https://www.newsweek.com/russians-armed ... on-1859407

Russians have warned that the public may incite an armed insurrection over the Kremlin's treatment of mobilized soldiers in Ukraine.

The warning was issued by relatives of Russian men drafted under President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilization in late 2022, amid reports that soldiers are being prohibited from leaving the military despite completing their terms.

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Igor Sushko
@igorsushko
Russia: Central heating pipe laid down in 1974 ruptured and flooded Novosibirsk. Multiple districts without heating nor hot water in -25°C (-13°F) night temperature.

"There are no hostilities, but we live like in besieged Leningrad," locals complain.

NOW Blackout in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Many areas are cut off from electricity. In some areas of the city, the water pressure in the taps dropped and the heating stopped. The situation is the same in neighboring Bataysk.

Rostov is a large hub for the Russian army near the border with Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that the area of the fire in the Wildberries warehouse complex in St. Petersburg has grown to 50,000 m².

Lots of fires appearing lately.

Russia's egg shortage is being exacerbated by bird flu-riddled imports from Turkey, one of the country's biggest trading partners and a NATO member, according to a recent report citing a Russian government official.

More than one-fifth of the eggs imported from Turkey were found to be infected with the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza, as well as other dangerous ailments including salmonella and botulism, Russian authorities warned.

The egg crisis has been spiraling out of control over the past few weeks, as the combination of high inflation and sanctions imposed by the West in response to President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine fueled an unprecedented jump in prices and localized shortages.

In November, egg prices rose by about 40 percent year-on-year, according to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), and jumped a further 4.6 percent month-on-month in December.

Russia's attempt to pivot to Turkey for emergency egg supplies in January now appears to have backfired, as the delivery of the first batch of Turkish eggs was promptly followed by reports that about 20% of them may be infected with bird flu.

"The percentage is large. This is 10 out of 50—more likely than 6 out of 49 in the Sportloto [lottery[," Sergei Dankvert, the head of the Federal Agency for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision, told the Siberian University of Consumer Cooperatives.

"It is necessary to ensure that there's no threat to the consumers. Of course, some of the products may already be sold. But the incubation period in most cases can be up to 21 days, so we are waiting. In the meantime, we are suspending sales to large retail chains," the official added.

Suranis wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:13 pm

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that the area of the fire in the Wildberries warehouse complex in St. Petersburg has grown to 50,000 m².

Lots of fires appearing lately.