Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu are preparing to involve minors aged 17-18 years in the Russia-Ukraine war, Defense Intelligence of Ukraine reports. The teenagers will be selected from the...
In a dangerous indication that the militarization of Russian society is occurring rapidly and that this will cast a shadow far into the future, Russian officials say that nearly 350,000 youths in Russia today are members of the...
The massive participation of young Russians in the March 26 anti-corruption demonstrations led many Russian and Western analysts to predict that the rise of a generation born or at least grown up after the end of the Soviet Union will have...
Note with how much love the Russian military propagandists talk about everything that brings death to others. On the 55th second of the video a young man with a military specialty of “Special Propaganda” assures...
As part of its program to restore Soviet-era practices of pre-induction military training, something the LDPR has been pressing for since last year, the Russian defense ministry has announced plans to create a new militarized youth...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...