Canadian Arend Feenstra, who moved with his family to the Nizhny Novgorod region in early 2024 under a program for citizens of «unfriendly» countries who share «traditional family values», said that to switch from temporary residence to permanent residence he needs to sign a contract for military service with the Russian Ministry of Defense. He referred to the presidential decree of November 5, 2025, «On the Temporary Procedure for Admission to Russian Citizenship and Issuance of a Residence Permit in the Russian Federation».

#ArendFeynstra #Canada #defenseministry #NizhnyNovgorodRegion #rvp #Russia

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According to the «Movement of Conscientious Objectors», 27-year-old Petrozavodsk resident Nikita Sergeev, who has fitness category «D», was forced to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense and taken to military unit No. 61424. In the morning, he was supposed to be sent to the front.

#VladimirPutin #ConscientiousObjectorsMovement #EvgenyPoddubnyi #defenseministry #NikitaSergeev #Petrozavodsk

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At the Krasnozavodsk Chemical Plant in the Moscow region, a series of explosions occurred on October 1; according to SHOT, seven people died. Open flames continued at the facility, rescuers tried to contain the fire, and workers were evacuated.

#GeneralStaffoftheArmedForcesofUkraine #Krasnozavodsk #KrasnozavodskChemicalPlant #defenseministry #rostec #Ukrainiandrones

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The Insider, based on open sources, counted at least 16 former and current heads of Russia’s regional and municipal executive authorities who died after being sent to the war against Ukraine. The publication names the former mayor of Belgorod and deputy governor of Belgorod Oblast, Konstantin Polezhaev, as the most recent known case.

#TheInsider #leopard #BelgorodOblast #KonstantinPolezhaev #defenseministry #Kharkivregion

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Former Belgorod Mayor Konstantin Polezhaev was killed in the Belgorod Region, the Telegram channel «Fonar» reported, citing his relatives. The Telegram channel «Zapiski Veterana» claims that he was killed by a drone strike.

#leopard #Belgorod #BelgorodOblast #bribe #KonstantinPolezhaev #defenseministry

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Fear of a possible mobilization, which Vladimir Putin is believed to be able to announce after the State Duma elections, has also gripped representatives of the Russian elite. Bloomberg writes that officials in the Kremlin are asking friends and relatives to leave Russia in the coming months and are looking for ways to open bank accounts abroad; according to the agency, recruitment office workers are doing the same.

#bloomberg #VladimirPutin #Donbass #defenseministry #mobilization #Russia

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Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court extended the arrest of Readovka founder Alexey Kostylev until December 19. He is accused of large-scale fraud. The defense asked to place him under house arrest because of his health condition.

#Readovka #AlexeyKostylev #defenseministry #Moscow #Smolenskregion #TverskoyDistrictCourtofMoscow

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In Yakutia, the 5.4% salary increase for some categories of public-sector workers from July 1 was moved to September 1. The authorities explained this by unforeseen expenses.

#WarinUkraine #healthcare #defenseministry #Economy #Yakutia

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Members of Russian mobile fire teams deployed in the regions to protect against AFU drones were instructed to record their work on video for reports to their superiors. A participant in the Dnepr unit of the BARS-Sarmat Special Purpose Center, callsign Ikona, who serves in the Tula region, told Kommersant journalists about this.

#leopard #uav #WarinUkraine #defenseministry #mobilefireteams #Russia

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Police in Altai Krai detained 13 members of an organized group suspected of sham marriages with men, sending them to the special military operation zone, and stealing payments. According to the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the damage exceeded 60 million rubles.

#AltaiKrai #WarinUkraine #Kemerovoregion #defenseministry #Fraud #Novosibirskregion

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The Russian Ministry of Defense reported carrying out a training-combat launch of a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The training warheads, the ministry said, arrived in the designated area at the Kura test range in Kamchatka.

#Kamchatka #Kura #defenseministry #PlesetskEducational #PlesetskMinistryofDefenseofRussia

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