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Russia's oil pipeline monopoly Transneft sent hundreds of its employees to fight in Ukraine last summer as the Kremlin struggled to recruit soldiers for its war, according to an investigation by the independent news website IStories.  Journalists said that, in the months before President Vladimir Putin announced a "partial” mobilization in September 2022, Transneft was sending and equipping its employees from across Russia's regions to join a volunteer military battalion called BARS-20. Among them was Alexei Saispaev, a Transneft security guard from the Tomsk region who joi...

Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist that was killed in 2006, foresaw what would become of Russia under Vladimir Putin. Her daughter explains in a new book how no one listened to the warning signs.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed Andrei Troshev, the former head of the Wagner Group, to start forming "volunteer units". Source: Russian Interfax news agency, with reference to Putin's statement during a meeting with Troshev Quote: "At our last meeting, we talked about the fact that you will be engaged in the formation of volunteer units that can perform various combat tasks - first of all, of course, in the area of the special military operation.

Dmitry Zelensky, 41, was pardoned in June, after serving six months on the front lines in Ukraine as a Wagner Group mercenary, having been recruited from prison where he was serving an 11-year sentence for slaughtering his girlfriend, Tatiana Melekhina.