Stay updated with breaking news from Mikhail ebmeyer. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
rosenberg reports from moscow. called up by the kremlin, they set off for ukraine. russian reservists now part of vladimir putin's war. there were scenes like these across russia. a sense of shock at the first mobilisation here since world war ii, and apprehension at what lies ahead. child cries. "daddy," cries a child, as another group departs. but there was anger, too, outside a recruitment office. the protester says, world war ii was a real war, but this one is just politics. protesting in russia can be dangerous. mikhail was detained at an anti—mobilisation protest in moscow. he says that down at the station, police tried to give him call—up papers.
0ur russia editor steve rosenberg reports from moscow. called up by the kremlin, they set off for ukraine. russian reservists now part of vladimir putin's war. there were scenes like these across russia. a sense of shock at the first mobilisation here since world war ii, and apprehension at what lies ahead. child cries. "daddy," cries a child, as another group departs. but there was anger, too, outside a recruitment office. the protester says, world war ii was a real war, but this one is just politics. protesting in russia can be dangerous. mikhail was detained at an anti—mobilisation protest in moscow. he says that down at the station, police tried to give him call—up papers.
as another group departs. but there was anger too, outside a recruitment office. the protester says, world war ii was a real war, but this one is just politics. protesting in russia can be dangerous. mikhail was detained at an anti—mobilisation protest in moscow. he says that down at the station, police tried to give him call—up papers. translation: when i refused to take the call-up papers, - an official said, "suit yourself, but you'll be sent to prison for ten years." she said it was against the law to refuse the draft. the public�*s being told the motherland is in danger. the message from the russian authorities to the russian people is we had to call up the reservists, the west is trying to destroy us, nato is waging a war against us —
our russia editor steve rosenberg reports from moscow. called up by the kremlin, they set off for ukraine. russian reservists, now part of vladimir putin's war. there were scenes like these across russia. a sense of shock at the first mobilization here since world war ii, and apprehension at what lies ahead. child cries. "daddy," cries a child, as another group departs. but there was anger too, outside a recruitment office. the protester says, world war ii was a real war, but this one is just politics. protesting in russia can be dangerous. mikhail was detained at an anti—mobilisation protest in moscow. he says that down at the station, police tried to give him call—up papers.
people were reportedly arrested. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports from moscow. called up by the kremlin, they set off for ukraine. russian reservists, now part of vladimir putin's war. there were scenes like these across russia. a sense of shock at the first mobilization here since world war ii, and apprehension at what lies ahead. child cries. "daddy," cries a child, as another group departs. but there was anger too, outside a recruitment office. the protester says, world war ii was a real war, but this one is just politics. protesting in russia can be dangerous. mikhail was detained at an anti—mobilisation protest in moscow.
stunts. >> coming just a day after governor ron desantis sent two planes to martha vineyard. mikhail has more. >> reporter: he was in san antonio texas yesterday, along with 50 other venezuelan migrants. today he is in martha's vineyard. when he got off the lane, i asked how do you think about this place. gorgeous, wonderful. everybody is hungry. he got on the plane with no idea where it was going. there were three options, washington, utah and here in massachusetts, whatever was available. the plane left and brought us here. it's a tactic we have seen in texas, arizona, and you florida, republican governors shipping migrants to scalded santaing ctuary states. >> no idea how low. they will go lower and lower and
community emerges abroad when people speak freely, work on projects to get a, help ukrainian refugees and basically created many russia abroad, which is not under the control of fsb, they are afraid that history will repeat itself. in 1917 vladimir lenin came to moscow and started a russian revolution. they are terrified the regime will be threatened once again by war. >> [speaking non-english] >> it was their opposition to the war that put these to compel them to turn their backs on their fsb. handlers. mikhail even appeared on georgian television, berating the russian regime for which he had spied. >> i texted the fsb guys and told him that they had started this war, that it was horrible. i saw the images online. and they had turned my world upside down. because i not only felt hatred toward the russian government, but towards myself for working for them for all these years. >> it is self hatred and a deep
i was threatened, and as a 19-year-old student, very frightened. there are so many stories, even videos, of people being abused in prison, to even think about that is scary. >> you were working with navalny. it is pictures of you quite closely with him. what kind of information did you give the fsb about him? >> i wasn't his close friend, so i couldn't give them information specifically about him. i was just working in a regional office, so they were more interested in when we were planning to hold meetings and protests, and of course what kind of investigations we were conducting. we even cooperated on some of these investigations. following any media outcry the fsb would either imprison or protect a particular official. >> but as well as keeping tabs on activists inside the country, the secretive russian security services also appear to have been stepping up surveillance of russians living abroad. mikhail says the fsb pulled him out of russia and sent him to the former soviet republic of
this is where we sleep. this is how we live, mikhail says. -- turned fsb informant shows us around the ducts refugee center. -- all i want for the future is a positive and normal life, he says. -- any more of these adventures. it was as a young opposition campaign that mikhail scene here in an anti government protest in russia caught the attention of the russian security service, the fsb. -- alexei navalny, russia's -- made him particularly valuable. but he was originally targeted to be termed, he told, me with fsb threats. >> they knew i was avoiding military service and gave me a simple choice, either to cooperate with them or go to prison for years. basically, as
navalny, there's pictures of you working quite closely with him. what kind of information did you give the fsb about him? >> translator: i wasn't his close friend so i couldn't give them information specifically about him, i was just working in a regional office, so they were more interested in when we were planning to hold meetings or protests and of course what kind of investigations we were conducting. we even cooperated on some of these investigations. following any media outcry, the fbs would either imprison or protect a particular official. >> reporter: but as well as keeping taps on activists inside the country the secretive russian security services also appeared to have been stepping up surveillance of russians living abroad. mikhail says the fsb sent him to georgia to infiltrate the growing ex-patriot community there escaping repressions at home alongside a network of other fsb informants already in