WorldcrunchNikita Kondratyev is a journalist whose work has been published in Russian-language publications such as independent news outlet Vazhnyye Istorii and Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
While three “challengers” are on the ballot in Russia’s presidential election which ends Sunday, none of the bonafide members of the opposition were approved for the vote. The only organized protest movement was launched from prison by Alexei Navalny, several weeks before he died, with crowds of opponents lining up to demonstrate against President Vladimir Putin
So-called “convalescent regiments” have been formed within the Russian army in an apparently desperate, and inhumane, attempt to avoid a deepening shortage of troops.