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If invading Ukraine was the greatest political mistake of President Vladimir Putin's 24 years in power, then partial mobilisation that September - at least domestically - was perhaps the second.
At a huge new exhibition in Moscow visited by Sky's Diana Magnay, the public lap up the Kremlin's message that Russia is great and the Ukraine war is in hand - a message easier for them to face up to than uncomfortable truths.
The Russian finance ministry has ordered the heads of eight regions, including Chechnya, to sign pledges to cut budget deficits.
Thousands of Buryats, a distinctive ethnic minority in Russia, fled tsarist conscription during WWI, then Soviet repressions that followed, to form their own microcosm of Buryat culture in a remote region of Mongolia.
A cyclone in the Black Sea and southern Ukraine caused infrastructure damage in many areas of coastal southern Russia and occupied Ukraine and is impacting the tempo of military operations along the frontline in Ukraine, but has notably not stopped