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Resistance to Putin in Russia? Experts see the first signs - because of a delicate army strategy

2022-07-20T13:28:58.649Z


Resistance to Putin in Russia? Experts see the first signs - because of a delicate army strategy Created: 07/20/2022, 15:20 By: Stephanie Munk At the military parade in Moscow in May 2022: Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (left), President Vladimir Putin (centre) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. © IMAGO/ITAR-TASS Millions of people suffer from the Ukraine war. Also Russian soldiers who have t


Resistance to Putin in Russia?

Experts see the first signs - because of a delicate army strategy

Created: 07/20/2022, 15:20

By: Stephanie Munk

At the military parade in Moscow in May 2022: Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (left), President Vladimir Putin (centre) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

© IMAGO/ITAR-TASS

Millions of people suffer from the Ukraine war.

Also Russian soldiers who have to fight at the front.

Putin is probably unfairly distributing the burden -- and thereby risking ethnic unrest.

Moscow - War is when innocent people go to hell, so the saying goes.

This applies first and foremost to the people in Ukraine who are killed or injured, who lose their relatives and homes, or who have to flee.

But it also applies to the many Russian men who are sent to the front lines by their government to fight for the cause that ruler Vladimir Putin has set his mind on: conquering Ukraine - or at least parts of it.

Putin avoids general mobilization - probably at the expense of ethnic minorities

According to a report by the US organization "Institute for the Study of War" (ISW), the recruitment of Russian men for the Ukraine war does not appear to be happening evenly across the country.

Putin, on the other hand, is pursuing a tactic that could sooner or later lead to unrest among ethnic minorities in the country.

Because: In a current analysis, the institute writes that they would have to bear the burden of the war disproportionately.

Putin apparently wants to protect the general Russian population from the direct consequences of the war, it is said, and is therefore avoiding general mobilization.

Instead, more and more regionally based battalions made up of members of certain minorities are emerging in Russia, the experts write.

Many of these battalions would now be fighting in Ukraine.

They often consist of soldiers from certain autonomous republics of Russia, such as South Ossetia, Chechnya or Tuva, an autonomous republic in Siberia belonging to the Russian Federation.

The ethnic minorities of the Bashkirs and Tatars or the Chuvash people of Turkish origin would also form their own battalions.

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Ethnic minorities as victims of the war - resistance is evidently forming

The “Institute for the Study of War” concludes from a report that the Russian blogger Rybar is said to have distributed via Telegram on Monday, July 18, that this approach is met with resistance within the ethnic groups.

Accordingly, an anti-war movement is forming in the autonomous republic of Tuva in Siberia.

The opponents of the war, made up of the Tuvar minority, would disseminate anti-war materials and allegedly incite the minority's dissatisfaction with the Russian regime.

According to the ISW report, such a movement also seems to have formed in the autonomous Russian Republic of Buryatia.

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The experts conclude that Putin's tactic of recruiting his soldiers mainly from ethnic minorities instead of relying on general mobilization could lead to unrest within Russia.

In any case, increasing resistance is to be expected in the ethnic enclaves of Russia.

Meanwhile, ex-Kremlin boss Dmitry Medvedev doesn't give the West a good hair - the EU and the USA are "politically impotent".

(smu)

Source: merkur

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