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LONDON: Russia does not need a presidential decree to formalise the completion of the partial mobilisation of reservists to fight in Ukraine, a senior senator from Russia's ruling party said on Tuesday (Nov 1). Russia has announced the…

Russia has completed the partial military mobilisation announced by President Vladimir Putin in September, the Defence Ministry said on Monday. "All activities related to the conscription … of citizens in the reserve have been stopped," the…

Russia said on Friday it had finished calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine, having drafted hundreds of thousands in a month and sending more than a quarter of them already to the battlefield after a divisive mobilisation campaign that…

MOSCOW: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoiguon Friday said that the "partial mobilisation" of 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine that Russia announced in September was complete. Speaking at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir…

Uzbek workers of a waste processing plant in the western Russian city of Oryol, who were handed mobilisation notices and ordered to show up at the local conscription point, asked their president for help, a local news outlet reported.…

LONDON: Moscow's mayor said on Monday that military mobilisation in the Russian capital was now complete while St Petersburg sacked the official in-charge there, the latest sign of problems with the unpopular and chaotic draft for the war…

Last Updated: October 16, 2022, 16:59 ISTPutin's close aide Roman Malyk was found dead at his village home in Russia (Twitter/@NEXTA)Reports of such mysterious deaths of Russian executives are not new. Out of all the businessmen who have…

ALMOST NO ORDERS No Russian business seems unscathed. Katerina Iberika, 39, who owns a pastry shop specialising in birthday cakes in Moscow, is also facing ruin. Her five employees are women exempted from mobilisation. But it's the low…

Last Updated: October 06, 2022, 17:37 ISTA Russian law enforcement officer detains a person during a rally, after opposition activists called for street protests against the mobilisation of reservists ordered by President Vladimir Putin, in…

Issued on: 30/09/2022 - 16:49 The announcement of Russia's first mass mobilisation since World War Two - calling up troops for its war in Ukraine - has seen thousands fleeing…