11/ The paper was co-written by Mikhail Salnikov, the chief researcher at the Law Institute in St. Petersburg; State Duma deputy Igor Ananskikh; Voronezh doctor of legal sciences Nikolai Litvinov; FSB reserve lieutenant general and ataman Ivan Mironov; and Ilya Kharin, general director of a clinical sanatorium.
12/ The paper is a reminder that there is a section of the Russian establishment which sees the world in explicitly racial terms that would not have been out of place in 1930s Germany.
For some reason, after it was publicised by online media, the paper is no longer available from the journal's website, but it can still be downloaded from the Internet Archive. /end
1/ Russian teenagers who were once hailed as "future Elon Musks" are reported to have been put to work around the clock in conditions of "teenage slavery" to build Shahed kamikaze drones in Tatarstan. They are reportedly shot at close range with paintball guns to weed out "wimps and brats."
The facility has also recruited teenagers from African countries, catfishing them via dating apps. It has focused on recruiting girls, as African boys are regarded as "too aggressive and dangerous". ⬇️
3/ The production site is a former special economic zone called Alabuga, which before the war in Ukraine was a high-tech centre of excellence that attracted many foreign companies. The February 2022 outbreak of war caused them to pull out en masse, threatening Alabuga's future.
1/ A pregnant woman has been sentenced to six years in jail in Russia for evading mobilisation, in the first case of its kind. Despite her pregnancy, she was convicted for failing to appear when she was summoned to her unit. ⬇️
As a new school term starts in Russia, children in Simferopol in Crimea are being invited to go hungry and donate their lunch money to the war effort. "School pizza costs 100 rubles, the life of a soldier is priceless", says the slogan.