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As Putin channels billions into the war, Russia plunges into critical municipal services crisis
In the winter of 2024, Russia is facing a severe municipal services crisis that affected heating, electricity, and also waste management across the country.
Social media abounds with Russians raising the alarm about the "garbage collapse" plaguing their cities.
Issues with waste collection have been happening in several Russian regions, including the Moscow region, where dumpsites are overflowing, and authorities appear unresponsive to complaints.
In the Chelyabinsk and Kemerovo regions, …
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Russian prisons allegedly cut heat to coerce inmates into fighting in Ukraine
In sub-zero temperatures across many Russian penal colonies, administrators are reportedly shutting off heating, creating "unbearable" conditions to pressure inmates to go to war in Ukraine, reports Bild, citing Olga Romanova, founder of the human rights project "Russia Behind Bars".
"In Russia, there are three groups of people whose deaths at the front do not draw much sympathy from the majority: prisoners, national minorities living in impoverished regions far from Moscow, and new citizens. …
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Russia turns to Africa for migrant workers as labor shortages intensify
Amid a record labor shortage spurred by the war in Ukraine and an aging population, Russia is seeking migrant workers beyond the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and turning its attention to Africa, reports The Moscow Times.
Hussein Mohammed, Kenya’s State House Spokesperson, announced that the first 10,000 workers from the African continent will arrive from Kenya.
Mohammed did not specify which industries the Kenyans would be employed in but emphasized that they would encompass …
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Russia to expand marine forces with creation of five new marine divisions and a brigade
The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, announced on January 10 that Russia will form five marine divisions and one brigade. TASS news agency reported that the new units will be created in the "medium-term future".
"To enhance the combat capabilities of the marines as an individual branch of the Navy, it is planned in the medium-term perspective to reorganize the existing five marine brigades on the fleets into marine divisions, and the marine regiment of the …
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Drones attack energy facility in Oryol, Russia
In the Russian city of Orel, located approximately 170 kilometres from the country's border with Ukraine, two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) fell on a fuel and gas facility, said Andrey Klychkov, the governor of Oryol Oblast, on Tuesday, 9 January. According to him, the incident caused a fire which was "quickly localized".
Klychkov later added that three individuals sustained moderate injuries as a result of the drones' attack. Two of them refused hospitalization. The governor also reported …
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Putin's bodyguard and an FSB colonel were in charge of the ammunition factory that left more than 20,000 Russians without heat
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered to nationalization the Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant, reports the news outlet Riamo, citing the Governor of the Moscow Region, Andrei Vorobyov.
Vorobyov attributed Putin’s decision to an incident that left around 20,000 people without heating in Podolsk city during the New Year's holidays. He stated that the boiler house, managed by the factory, operated "very poorly" and access to it was restricted due to the plant's classified status.
The …
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Explosive device detonates on railway in Russia's Nizhny Tagil
An explosive device reportedly detonated on the railway tracks in the Russian city of Nizhny Tagil, reports the Telegram channel 112.
There are no reports of casualties or significant damage at this time.
It is indicated that the device was attached to one of the tanks which had left an oil depot near the San Donato station on the morning of January 8.
Employees of a paramilitary security force, who were guarding metal-carrying wagons nearby, were the first to hear the blast. Upon inspecting …
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Russia launches massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine
The Russian military has once again attacked Ukraine, using hypersonic ballistic missiles Kinzhal and other weaponry. A nationwide air raid alert was declared across Ukraine on the night of Monday, January 8th, with the Ukrainian Air Force stating that rockets had been launched by Russian strategic aviation aircraft. 11 Tu-95MS strategic bombers and 4 MiG-31Ks were flew from airbases in the Nizhny Novgorod and Murmansk regions. Additionally, missile launches from the Caspian Sea area were …
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Russian oil exports pivot east with hefty discounts, costing companies billions in lost revenue
The redirection of Russian oil exports to the East following Western sanctions and a European embargo has resulted in multibillion-dollar losses for Russian oil companies. Compelled to offer discounts in order to secure Chinese buyers, the Russian oil producers have missed out on approximately $9 billion in revenue. From March to December 2022, the total discount provided to Chinese buyers of Russian oil was $5.3 billion, and from January to September 2023 it was a further $3.7 billion, …
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Russia faces chicken meat shortage amid worsening food crisis
After the egg crisis, Russia is now experiencing a shortage of chicken meat. Several Russian regions are facing severe shortage of chicken meat.
Russian media insist that the disruption is due to weather conditions, while Denis Pushilin, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, warns of a "cartel conspiracy”.
X5 Group, a major retail company in Russia, claims that chicken supply disruptions are allegedly caused by adverse weather conditions.
"In the first few days of …