In the fall, amid rumors of a new mobilization, the number of requests to human rights projects helping people leave Russia increased by one and a half times compared with spring, The Bell reported. At the same time, interest in moving and actual departures remain noticeably below the 2022 peak.

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Vladimir Putin signed a decree increasing the authorized strength of Russia’s armed forces by 15,500 people. This is the president’s fourth such decision since the start of the year.

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The wife of 54-year-old entrepreneur Vladimir Shch. from Ust-Kut took him home after nearly a day spent in the police station and military enlistment office, where, according to the family’s complaint to the prosecutor’s office, the man was being pressured to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense. Vladimir is now with his family, and his relatives fear he may be tracked down and are trying not to let him go out alone.

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The Prime Minister of Lithuania, Mindaugas Sinkevičius, called for ensuring residents have access to cash and the ability to pay by bank card in the event of a crisis or mobilization. He also proposed preparing banks, retail businesses, and some ATMs to operate during communication and power outages.

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After reports of a possible new mobilization, Russians began looking more actively for housing abroad. One of the most in-demand destinations was Thailand: in January-August 2026, Russian citizens bought 1,050 real estate properties there for $123.5 million, or 10.4 billion rubles.

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On September 18, Dmitry Peskov told RTVI that the Kremlin does not plan to draft 300,000 people by the end of the year. This is at least the fourth public denial in a month of preparations for a new mobilization by the Russian authorities.

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Vladimir Putin has likely not yet made a final decision on a new wave of mobilization after the State Duma elections, but the Russian army’s need for people is growing, while the recruitment of volunteers is declining, Bloomberg writes, citing European officials and military analysts. According to their assessment, instead of a new «partial mobilization», the authorities may expand the hidden one through pressure on the regions and the digital database of military conscripts.

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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.

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Since June 1, Russia’s federal authorities have rejected the possibility of an imminent mobilization at least 17 times, Important Stories calculated. In September, Vladimir Putin made such statements twice in three days.

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The First Appellate Court has toughened the sentence of Irkutsk interpreter Svetlana Savelyeva, who was convicted on charges of attempted treason and preparing to illegally cross the border. Her prison term was increased by two months — to 15 years and 2 months in a penal colony.

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Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev called talk of Russia’s plans to attack Europe «the same nonsense» as claims about an allegedly impending mobilization in Russia. He said this during a working trip to the Northwestern Federal District; the video was published on his channel in Max.

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Alexander Lukashenko, during a visit to the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus’s Brest Region, ordered a check of the entire Belarusian army «up to mobilization». He said this while answering a question about the plan for a large-scale inspection of the armed forces and the Interior Ministry’s internal troops this year.

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According to the «School of the Conscript», the Ministry of Internal Affairs denied a 25-year-old Russian man registered in Yakutia the issuance of a foreign passport, citing a travel ban imposed by the military enlistment office. The refusal came two weeks after the application was submitted through «Gosuslugi».

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Bots working in the Kremlin’s interests on VKontakte sharply increased their campaign against expectations of a new mobilization in Russia starting in July, according to data from the Botnadzor project. In June, they left 579 comments on this topic, in July — 7.1 thousand, and in August — 9 thousand.

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The Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, said in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda about new cases of corruption in territorial recruitment centers. According to him, for 50–70 thousand dollars, a person can be taken directly from a bus and transported outside the country, but this information is still being verified.

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Desperate pleas from Wildberries owners and sellers to the government are provoking a sluggish and chaotic response. And it seems the issue is not just a banal lack of money.

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A gorgeous golden autumn somewhere in central Russia. September 2022. The war started six months ago, mobilization is underway, and people are confused. Those who are quicker, who have the means and the foresight, have already formed huge lines at Verkhny Lars. Meanwhile, in a luxurious villa on the lakeshore, a prosperous family lives — a successful entrepreneur, his beautiful wife, and their teenage son. The villa is beautiful and wealthy, but depressingly dull. Aside from the beauty of nature, everything here is boring. And despite the tender kisses of the characters, the air is poisoned by a lack of love. That distinct Russian lovelessness, which Zvyagintsev explored in his previous film and knows so well.

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Irina Krynyina is the first wife of a Russian prisoner of war who came to Ukraine in the fall of 2023 to be with her civilian husband. Since then, not only her life but also her motivations have changed dramatically. Leaving behind a comfortable life in her native Krasnoyarsk, Krynyina, together with other Russian women living in Ukraine, founded the movement «Our Way Out» – and now helps relatives of Russian prisoners of war locate them in Ukrainian captivity. We spoke with Irina about how former captives can avoid being sent back to war.

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Thirty-four-year-old teacher Ilya Yolokhin from the Perm region was not supposed to be at war due to medical reasons – yet he was sent to the occupied Donetsk region. He managed to escape from service, got out of Russia, and now shares what he went through.

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