Russian Putin Ukraine war

On September 21, I woke up to the news that my country had announced a “partial mobilisation”. The details given by President Vladimir Putin were vague; ...

We might see the next stage of the mobilisation start, even if now Putin is [saying](https://meduza.io/news/2022/10/14/putin-poobeschal-zakonchit-mobilizatsiyu-v-rossii-v-techenie-dvuh-nedel) that it will end in two weeks – a cheap attempt to calm down the people. Waking up from a peaceful slumber of propaganda manipulation is hard and, as in the case of the older generation of Russians, almost impossible at times. It is unclear how long the majority will be able to delude themselves that all is good. Since the beginning of the war, she said that the government knows better. It put many Russian families at risk of losing their comfortable life and even their breadwinner – which is still a man in most Russian families. The Kremlin made sure that people lived their lives in isolation of these events, watching them on TV screens from the comfort of their living rooms, packaged as glorious conquests by media propagandists. Furthermore, as Muratov points out, the rate of those who refuse to respond in the first place is quite high – possibly around 75 percent. The negative reaction to the “partial mobilisation” was registered even by pollsters – long seen as unable to provide an accurate reflection of public opinion in Russia. As Dmitry Muratov – the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and chief editor of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta – Some of my friends who had left before the war and I organised a chat group to answer questions on which countries do not require a visa, how to rent a cheap apartment and set up a bank account. How can that be reconciled with the 88 percent who say they are “very concerned” and “rather concerned” about the war in Ukraine? On September 21, I woke up to the news that my country had announced a “partial mobilisation”.