Vladimir Putin’s reign is now “closer to the end,” Russian official says

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  1. From the article:

    “**Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reign is now “closer to the end,” a Russian official who now faces conscription under the leader’s partial mobilization decree has said.**

    Dmitry Baltrukov, 43, is one of many municipal deputies for Smolninskoe in St. Petersburg **who appealed to the country’s parliament last month to remove Putin from power on the charge of high treason over the Ukraine war.**

    **The price: a 44,000 ruble ($758) fine for “discrediting” the Russian army, and now, the official has been ordered to enlist and serve in Ukraine, something he believes is a deliberate attempt to “get rid” of him**, given that he does not meet the defense ministry’s criteria to be drafted.

    Baltrukov told Newsweek that **military enlistment office workers and policemen came to his home on Sunday**, where his mother was, **to hand him a summons, despite him having no military experience**. The deputy, who was on a business trip when authorities visited his home, said he ignored orders to appear at his local enlistment office on Monday at 9 a.m. local time.

    **”At least one hundred thousand Russians voted ‘with their feet’ after leaving the country. I see a lot of words of support for my anti-war position,”** Baltrukov said.

    **”But one must understand that there is an atmosphere of fear in Russia now. People speaking out against the war is extremely dangerous.”**

    Baltrukov said **he sees “a clear trend” toward a decrease in support for the war Putin launched against Ukraine on February 24, amongst some Russians.”**

  2. This guy might want to stay away from windows in tall buildings too.

    It seems quite a few non believers in Puttin’s shenanigans have fallen out of those windows lately…

  3. lol, logically, every day Putin’s remaining reign is one day shorter. It isn’t really a great comfort. Knowing it doesn’t end in nuclear holocaust would be a better thing to know, but… that’s unknowable.

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