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7х7 — Горизонтальная Россия В Рязанской области чиновники ввели выплаты за вербовку на войну. Местные жители обойдутся бюджету в шесть раз дешевле, чем контрактники из других регионов Губернатор Рязанской области утвердил выпла...

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6/ Russia also has a widespread problem with slavery, with an estimated 1.9 million people in involuntary servitude. The bounties are worth far more than the resale value of the slaves, reportedly prompting owners to effectively sell them to the army. /end
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5/ However, such initiatives have raised concerns that they will be exploited by kidnappers and slavers. People in poverty, unemployment or alcoholism were reportedly kidnapped in the Ivanovo region in March 2025 and 'sold' to the army.
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4/ Ryazan is not the first region to offer recruitment bounties. Others offer a range of bounties:

🔺 Udmurtia - 30,000 rubles ($375)
🔺 Zabaikalsky Krai - 50,000 ($625)
🔺 Samara - 100,000 ($1,250)
🔺 Tatarstan - 150,000 ($1,875)
🔺 Ulyanovsk - 200,000 ($2,500)

3/ A resident of another region is worth 344,800 rubles ($4,000) and a foreigner is worth 80,500 ($1,062). Government workers and those who are already employed as military recruiters are excluded from the bounty programme. Contracts must be signed by the end of 2025.

2/ The 7x7 news outlet reports that the Ryazan regional authorities have approved the introduction of payments to those who attract people to sign a military contract. Recruitment of a local resident will be rewarded with a bounty of 57,500 rubles ($718).

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION MILITARY REGISTRATION OFFICE OF THE RYAZAN REGION

1/ Ryazan has become the latest Russian region to introduce bounties for citizens who find recruits to join the Russian army. The initiative has raised concerns that slaves and vulnerable people will be 'sold' to the army for profit, as has already happened in some cases. ⬇️

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5/ The DPR occasionally mounts 'blitzes' of pipe repairs to eliminate leaks: 809 over three weekends in May 2025 alone. However, it's clear that this is wholly inadequate for resolving the infrastructure problems, which will likely require billions of dollars to fix. /end

4/ Here water can be seen pouring from under an apartment building in Donetsk city's Chernigovskaya St. The head of the 'Donetsk People's Republic' government, Denis Pushilin, says that 76% of pipes need repairs and repacement.

3/ The water infrastructure installed by Ukraine before the Russian takeover in 2014 has become dilapidated due to neglect and theft from maintenance budgets. Reservoirs are empty and groundwater is undrinkable due to iron contamination from the region's abandoned mines.

As previously reported, the occupied eastern regions of Ukraine are undergoing a catastrophic shortage of water that Russian commentators have called a "water genocide", caused by war, mismanagement and corruption by the Russian-installed authorities.
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1/ A key factor in the current water crisis in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions is the collapse of the existing water infrastructure, in which at least 50% of the already limited supply of water is lost through leaks. People are now reduced to collecting water from the streets. ⬇️

15/ "Is it surprising that in such a situation someone turns a blind eye to some things?"

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14/ "If an army mafia is growing in a unit or formation, a person on the spot who honestly took on the investigation of particularly sensitive episodes may suddenly end up dead before a special group arrives to fawn over the defendants.

13/ …and the green light simply based on the fact of having such an evidence base may simply not be obtained.

Finally, another important point. Is the safety of the operatives themselves properly ensured?

12/ "A person may well have a weighty evidence base on his hands, but the case goes into the format of an inter-corporate behind-the-scenes joust at high levels, i.e. it becomes internal political,…

11/ "Plus, it is far from always that an ordinary operative on the ground is able to overcome the army system of corporate bail, especially if we are talking about shoulder straps with big stars.

10/ "It is difficult to blame people if their appeals to the competent authorities are accompanied by the real risks of being zeroed out [murdered].

9/ "In addition, in the current conditions, very few servicemen are ready to openly testify, which complicates the collection of evidence. This circumstance, in turn, raises the question of the need to ensure proper protection of victims and witnesses.

8/ "There are simply not enough [investigative] operatives. How effectively can a person work if he has a couple of thousand servicemen [in his area of responsibility] and is simply overwhelmed by a flood of messages [complaining about criminal behaviour]?

7/ There are many problems in tackling what he calls the "question of control over the actions of the command staff". Criminal commanders may be shielded by corrupt employees of the DVKR (military counter-intelligence). But even if not, investigators face severe challenges:

6/ "P.S. After the start of the campaign, an even wilder field developed in the zones of functioning of army organisms."

5/ "Work on the ground in this wild field was sometimes carried out solely on the basis of practical expediency, and it happened that the schemes simply ended abruptly. But the operatives themselves could also end abruptly.

4/ …from sawing up equipment from frozen production facilities and military equipment for scrap metal to smuggling coal, fuel and lubricants and military equipment into the adjacent territory.

3/ He writes that "a stable symbiosis of local driven entrepreneurs and those same anonymous northerners was formed on the [occupied] territory, providing a very reliable protection [literally 'roof'] for entrepreneurial initiatives, …

2/ Russian warblogger Svyatoslav Golikov writes (in carefully elliptical terms) writes of how military crime has developed in occupied Ukraine, following the Russian Army's December 2022 reintroduction of corps and divisions in response to the challenges of the war.

1/ An 'army mafia' has developed within Russia's invasion force in Ukraine, operating with near-impunity to smuggle commodities back into Russia and strip seized industries to sell for personal profit. A Russian commentary highlights the difficulties of tackling it. ⬇️

The people inside the van will get a surprise if any of them are actually detonated!

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