Russian Spending on Cemetery Expansion Triples Since Ukraine Invasion - The Moscow Times
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Читайте русскую версию здесь. Russian regions’ spending on cemetery expansion projects was nearly three times higher during the first two years of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine than it was during the two years prior, The Moscow Times has found.  According to data from the official state procurement portal, Russia’s regions spent more than 225 million rubles ($2.5 million) on cemetery expansion in 2023.  This is twice as much as in 2022 and almost six times more than in 2020, before the height of the coronavirus pandemic.  Authorities have already spent 136 million rubles ($1.5 million) for this purpose during the first half of 2024. This is compared to 38 million rubles ($432,000) spent by the regions to expand cemeteries in 2020, over 124 million rubles in 2021 ($1.4 million) and 122 million rubles ($1.3 million) in 2022.  In the two pre-pandemic years, 2018 and 2019, the regions spent a combined 1.1 billion rubles ($12.5 million) on cemetery expansion.
    • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Oh they know. But with the recruitment several things happened:

      • Russian minorities from the boonies where voluntold to Ukraine at the start.
      • Other “undesirables” where voluntold in prisons etc.
      • The MOD started recruiting contractniki (volunteer mercenaries) and for sufficient pay this works wel, again especially with minorities from the boonies. You offer them 6K signing bonus when a normal months salary is less than 500… you get takers… A lot actually.

      Putin’s powerbase is in Moscow and St Petersburg area… And the boys from there get jobs in the east or go on naval exercises in the carribean. So Putin’s powerbase can be apatethic about any casualties… it’s just minorities from Siberia. Or people that willingly signed up and chose their path.

      • The_v@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Ethnocentrism is a defining characteristic of the Russian culture in the cities since the time of the tsars. Any other culture considered inferior and it’s people as subhuman.

        So other cultures can be exploited, abused, raped, murdered, etc. with little to no political consequences. The political powerbase really doesn’t give a fuck about the loses.