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forming a large circle and performed the ohuokhai, a traditional Sakha dance in which participants move in a circle and sing improvised
products used in the zone of Russia's special military operation on display at the Kvartal Truda [Labour Quarter] creative cluster in
of this quota became the sole responsibility of local officials who, in turn, were tasked with reporting on their progress to former
proportionate to the population of each of 38 uluses (districts) of the republic where local heads were tasked with administering
in Ukraine and another 118 were reported as missing in action,according to statistics provided by local volunteers and a tally of verified
losses, Yakutian officials still manage to fulfill Kremlin-imposed quotas and find men willing to leave their Arctic republic to face death
The page-wide banner also features an address of an enlistment office in Yakutsk, while the link attached to it redirects a user to a local
facilitating war recruitment are mining giants Alrosa, Aldanzoloto and Seligdar, as well as oil and gas group Surgutneftegaz.Targeting the
centers in Sakha vow to help potential recruits with collecting documents required for enlistment and to pay for them using state funds when
They also purchase airline tickets and cover the cost of a taxi ride to the central enlistment office located at the Abyral sanatorium in
change was possible due to the large number of prisoners being sent to the war in Ukraine
More than 300 inmates from Sakha were recruited into the ranks of Wagner mercenary group in 2023 alone, according to the insider source
the murder of his father and two friends and another man sentenced to eight years in a maximum-security prison for the murder of his
district where they signed a contract.In June this year, Kyrgyz citizen Askar Kubanychbek uulu became one of the first foreign citizens to
enlist in the army in Sakha.Kubanychbek uulu first joined the Russian army in June 2022, but was arrested upon returning to his home in
A year later, judges reduced the sentence to seven years and allowed Kubanychbek uulu to spend the first three years of his term outside
rubles ($500), according to a study conducted by the Free Yakutia
they have not been paid the promised salary nor additional payments for receiving an injury or destroying Ukrainian military equipment in
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