1/ With losses escalating in Ukraine, a Russian region has ordered businesses to send their employees to fight. Varying recruitment quotas have been set depending on the size of the business. The 'voluntary-compulsory' scheme appears to be a de facto form of mobilisation. โฌ‡๏ธ

April 01, 2026 - 12:42 UTC

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Some ways to work against this order:
1. enterprises can just reorganize into entities up to 150 in size which aren't obligated to provide any people
2. Enterprises can be sexist and designate women who will mostly end up in supporting roles.
3. Employees will shift to smaller employers.
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2/ 'Military Informant' publishes the text of the decree:

"The Governor of the Ryazan Region has established a plan for local businesses to recruit contract soldiers into the military."
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3/ "According to a published decree by regional governor Pavel Malkov, all business entities in the Ryazan Region will be required to recruit candidates for contract military service in the Russian Armed Forces from 20 March 2026 to 20 September 2026:
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Instead of going on a 4 day work week they could send 20% to the SMO.
Should increase loyalty to management quite a bit, as a side effect. Win-win
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"You are fired" will take another meaning.
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Good. More meat
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I've been reading variants of this for the last four years and still nothing has changed in Russia. Come back to me when armed mobs are storming the Kremlin like in 1917.
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This is perfectly aligned with another initiative. Russian universities now have a quota to turn at least 2% of male students into contract soldiers.

With 2.2 million male students enrolled, that could mean 44,000 recruits. At least 70 schools were already involved by late February.
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Cynical take: wasting the future to prolong a war they will not win, buying just another 1.5 months for Putin. Ghastly.
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+1 and a half month supply
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So the crypto mobilisation has begun
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This will be America in 2 years.
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more damage to the economy
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Anything that weakens their economy further is great, but the fact these new "recruits" will be very unmotivated and hopefully rebellious...
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Revised annual employee review score for the region: Excellent, Above average, average, SMO, stormZ
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Interesting to see this kind of stuff creep to within a couple of hour's drive of Moscow.
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