– Dear friends. I have bad news, but the thought that things could get even worse makes me a little more comfortable reporting, says editor-in-chief of Veter magazine, Vera Pochueva on Instagram. – We have received a message from the Museum in Moscow that the neighboring building and the courtyard outside the museum, where our building and our activities take place, will be the location of a military mobilization point from tomorrow. She says that the creation of this post started at the same time as the festival preparations. The plan was to gather tens of thousands of people to a supermarket with 170 participating brands, many of them Russian. The magazine editors in Veter cancel the event on Instagram. The last time the festival was held, which is before the pandemic, it attracted 35,000 Russians with an interest in local brands and a climate-conscious lifestyle. This time a tattoo studio and a skate ramp were booked. – Because of this message and without the possibility to change anything, we decided not to hide this information, and risk the safety of not only the festival participants, but also thousands of people in our audience. – With tears in their eyes and a broken heart, the whole team in Veter is diving. ? Hug. Come quickly Editor Vera has more than 80,000 followers on her Instagram account, which she updates in Russian. The magazine has 150,000. Instagram as a platform is blocked for use in Russia, but people in the country still use it through the use of a VPN. A Russian woman news has spoken to, who lives abroad, describes the Veter magazine as “popular among people in their 20s and 30s”, and says the decision until the editors suddenly intervened. – People are very upset, she says. – I think that many in the Veter audience are people who travel abroad and have an open mind. Definitely not those who watch zombie TV. Vera Pochueva is editor-in-chief of Veter magazine. By the latter, she means the propaganda that the Russian authorities produce on a daily basis for the Russian people. Although mobilization posts appear in Moscow, she gets the impression that many more men are mobilized from the provinces than from the big cities. – This madness brings out the differences in Russian society. – The same applies to ethnic minorities. The president only talks about them when he needs something. It is very disturbing. “Disproportionate recruitment of minorities” The independent think tank Institute for the study of war says Russian authorities are now breaking their promise to only recruit people with military experience. The think tank also writes that it is likely that the Kremlin will mobilize a disproportionate amount of people from ethnically non-Russian and immigrant communities. A member of the Kremlin’s Russian Human Rights Council, Kirill Kabanov, proposed mandatory military service for Central Asian immigrants who have received Russian citizenship in the past ten years. He threatened to confiscate their Russian citizenship if they did not mobilize. Demonstrators in Russia: – I will not die for Putin! Furthermore, the think tank writes that an Armenian Telegram channel published a mobilization list from Tuapse on the northeast coast of the Black Sea. This they say consists of 90 percent ethnic Armenian residents, despite the fact that the Armenian community in the city only makes up 8.5% of the population. In contrast, the summons does not apply to everyone who works in IT companies, the financial sector or “strategically important” media organisations, the governing authorities announced on Friday.
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