Two soldiers captured last year in Kursk could be repatriated to North Korea, while South Korea said that it is ready to welcome them if they wish. Six activists fighting for their transfer are now under investigation for entering Ukraine without authorisation.
Russian news agencies ignored the C-6 summit in Kyrgyzstan, which showed participants’ willingness to protect their economic interests from Western sanctions and ensure the functioning of the Middle Corridor. Meanwhile, the dynastic nature of power is being legitimised.
For several centuries, the Orthodox Church in Kyiv and Moscow dated the Baptism of Rus' to 1 August 988, the feast of the Merciful Saviour and the Most Holy Theotokos, the day in which water was to be blessed in memory of the “Source of the Dnieper”. The idea of linking the holiday to the memory of Vladimir arose in the context of the ecclesiastical and political intrigues of 2008.
The Moscow Duma is openly discussing the possibility of relocating 200,000–300,000 citizens living in the ‘liberated’ territories of the Donbass – which are now uninhabitable – to the Far East or Siberia. This is in keeping with the Russian-Soviet system, which throughout its history has displaced vast numbers of people to suit its own needs.
In his book *People Behind the Fence*, journalist Maksim Trudoljubov explains the different types of Russian citizenship, based on moral service and private property. He also explores how a post-Putin and post-war transition might be organised on the basis of these principles.
Russian citizens have been worn down considerably by the war. Like the elderly, people who are still full of vigour have rushed to take refuge in comfortable information and social bubbles, aware that they have lost any prospect of a normal life
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