As a member of Russia's Airborne Troops (Vozdushno-desantnye voyska; VDV), Sergeant Leonid Yuriyevich Kichatkin was stationed in Pskov with the 76th Airborne Division's Unit 74268 where he also lived with his wife, Oksana, and children. Sergeant Kichatkin took great pride in being a paratrooper. Pictures on his wife's VKontakte (a Russian social media website similar to Facebook) page of the couple in Pskov's Botanical Gardens show Sergeant Kichatkin carrying a small pillow with "VDV" embroidered on it while he wears a tank-top in the same style as the telnyashka, the famous white undershirt with light blue stripes worn by Russian paratroopers.
In August 2014 Sergeant Kichatkin bid farewell to his wife as he deployed to Rostov. It would be their final conversation. On 22 August the following message appeared on Sergeant Kichatkin's VKontakte page in red: "Dear friends!!!! Lyonya [Leonid] died, the burial will be at 10 a.m., the funeral service in Vybuty. Whoever wants to bid him farewell, come, we'll be so pleased to see everyone. His wife, Oksana." Earlier posts on Oksana Kichatikina's own VKontakte page said that she was waiting desperately for her husband. When she finally learned of his death she posted "Life has stopped !!!!!!!!!!" and said that she expected her husband's coffin "within five days." Friends posted messages of condolence.
However, shortly after the message on Sergeant Kichatkin's VKontakte page went viral, it was removed. A new message, presumably from Oksana, read, "My husband is alive and well and now we're celebrating our daughter's baptism." Ivan Vasyunin, a Russkaya Planeta journalist, posted on Twitter that he spoke to both Oksana and a man who identified himself as Sergeant Kichatkin. Novaya Gazeta's (New Gazette) Nina Petlyanova and Irina Tumanova, a reporter from the St. Petersburg-based newspaper Fontanka traveled to Pskov to find out more. Petlyanova called the Kichatkins and Oksana answered insisting that her husband was alive and someone hacked his VKontakte page. "Sergeant Kichatkin" then answered the phone, and said that he had not gone anywhere because his wife was pregnant and that he had three other children to attend to. To prove that he was alive he also offered to "sing a song" or "dance for the video camera." The Kichatkins later asked people not to call. On 24 August Sergeant Kichatkin's VKontakte page was removed.
Except other evidence indicated Sergeant Kichatkin was not alive and well; his funeral took place on 25 August. According to his tombstone, he died on 19 August, three days before his wife announced his death on VKontakte. Petlyanova's phone conversation with "Sergeant Kichatkin" occurred on 24 August, the day before the funeral. Both the sergeant's father and uncle attended the funeral. Tumanova also visited also visited the cemetery. She found several soldiers throwing dirt on two graves. One was for Sergeant Kichatkin and the other was for Sergeant Aleksandr Sergeyevich Osipov (who died on 20 August according to his tombstone, a day after Sergeant Kichatkin).
There was a major standing near Sergeant Osipov's grave who identified himself as the sergeant's father. He mistook Tumanova for a fellow mourner. At the major was a little table with bottles of vodka, bread, and tomatoes for the wake. He drank to the memory of his son, "He wanted to be a hero…Soldiers have a job to do. Somebody has to pay their debt to the motherland." Sergeant Osipov's father regretted sending his own son off to war. When Tumanova asked him if the two men died in Ukraine and he responded, "Where else?" He said that his son's convoy was caught between mortar and Grad fire after spending only a week in Donbas. The major did not know how many were killed but said that there were more to bury. Following family inquiries, the nameplates on Sergeants Kichatkin and Osipov's graves were removed.
Sergeant Kichatkin's story is hardly unique. Since Russia began its intervention in eastern Ukraine, there have been numerous cases of active-duty Russian soldiers killed in action returning home in secret. The Russian non-governmental organization (NGO), Committee For Soldiers' Mothers has been particularly interested in these cases. The organization was founded in 1989 and is currently headed by Valentina Melnikova. However, attempts by NGOs and investigative journalists to look into the situation have been met with fierce resistance from the Russian government. The state has even gone so far as to threaten the soldiers' families if they reveal any information about Russia's covert war in eastern Ukraine.
On 2 June 2014 Russian photojournalist Maria Turchenkova published a report on a truck marked "Cargo-200" crossing the Russo-Ukrainian border. Cargo-200 is a military euphemism long-used in Russia to describe those who died in war. Onboard were reportedly the bodies of 31 dead Russians who died assaulting the Donetsk Airport in May 2014. Aleksandr Boroday, the leader of the Donetsk People's Republic (Donétskaya Naródnaya Respúblika; DPR or DNR), confirmed that those killed were Russian citizens. Turchenkova received further confirmation when she spotted coffins and photographed several notices from the Donetsk Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination, which also identified the deceased as Russian citizens.
The dead included Yuriy Fyodorovich Abrosimov (born 1982) and Sergey Borisovich Zhdanovich (born 1966) who was a retired instructor at the Federal Security Service's (Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii; FSB) Center for Special Assignments and a veteran of Russia's wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya. Zhdanovich underwent training at a camp in the Rostov oblast before deploying to Donbas. According to Russian authorities, the deceased died in a training accident at the Rostov camp. The families received large financial compensations and signed non-disclosure agreements.
At 0630 hours on 2 September 2014 a captain from Russia's 106th Guards Airborne Division arrived at the outskirts of the remote village of Podsolnechnoye in the Samara region of southern Russia located between the Volga River and Kazakhstan. The captain had traveled over 1,400 kilometers from Rostov on the Russo-Ukrainian border. His only companion on the journey was a sealed zinc coffin containing the body of 20-year-old Corporal Sergey Andrianov, a paratrooper from the 106th's 137th Guards Airborne Regiment.
There to meet the captain were Corporal Andrianov's uncle and older brother. His sister soon joined them while his mother, Natasha, remained inside. The family had spent five days waiting for the body, and when the coffin was finally opened, Corporal Andrianov's sister let out a banshee-like scream at last prompting his mother to exit the house and inspect the coffin. She still wanted to believe that her son was wounded and being treated. When Natasha finally looked at the coffin, she barely recognized her son. Corporal Andrianov's face was blue, his nose twisted, and his body covered in dirt. He also wore flip-flops instead of combat boots and fatigues that were far too large for him.
According to documents provided to his mother, Corporal Andrianov died from "blast trauma" with one shrapnel wound to the chest and damage to the heart. Other than this, Natasha received no additional information regarding her son's death, namely what caused the blast and where he died. She knew that in mid-August 2014 Corporal Andrianov went to Rostov for training exercises. Soon after, his phone went out of service and he stopped responding to e-mails. On 21 August he called his mother from an unfamiliar number to tell her that he was safe. She said that he was whispering and sounded like he was in a hurry.
The Andrianovs were not the only family to receive a trademark zinc coffin. Yelena Tumanova, a hospital orderly from the Mari El republic, said that her son, Anton, told her by phone on 10 August 2014 that he was deploying to Donetsk. On 20 August a coffin arrived in Mari El with the 20-year-old Tumanov's face visible through a small window for his mother to see. His comrades told her that he lost his leg in an artillery strike. Yelena now wants someone held accountable for her son's death.
Tumanov's death certificate from a Rostov morgue said that he died at "the place of temporary deployment of military unit 27777…of massive blood loss [from] multiple shrapnel wounds." In reality, he deployed to eastern Ukraine on active-duty with the 18th Motorized Brigade in August 2014. Tumanov's commanders told him to turn in his phone and remove all identifiers, the standard procedure for a covert Russian insertion into Donbas. The commanding officers mocked and threatened those who refused. Tumanov entered Ukraine on 11 August 2014 with a large military column that included vehicles and 1,000 other soldiers. A smaller unit arrived in the Ukrainian town of Snezhnoe on 12 August 2014. Tumanov and a fellow soldier, Robert Artyunyan, documented their arrival in the town a day later.
Witnesses described a convoy moving through Torez and Snezhnoe on 13 August which included a BTR-80 armored personnel carrier (APC) and men with white bands on their arms and legs, usually the only identifiers worn by pro-Kremlin forces in Donbas. On 13 August Tumanov and his fellow soldiers were photographed with white bands and standing near a BTR-80. Hours after this, local media reports said that Kievan artillery hit the nearby Khimmash factory. The strike killed both Tumanov and Artyunyan. Another soldier, Rolan Ramazanov, survived the attack as he was in a BTR at the time. He suffered only a concussion and minor loss of hearing because the hatch was open. Tumanov and Artyunyan were "two-three steps from the BTR," according to Ramazanov. Artyunyan died instantly while Tumanov received medical assistance but died on the operating table. Tumanov was buried in his hometown of Kozmodemyansk.
Though usually tight-lipped about Russian soldiers operating in Ukraine, the Russian media made an exception on 5 September 2014 for reasons that became quickly apparent. On that day all three state-controlled channels aired reports about Russian soldiers killed fighting in eastern Ukraine. This was the first time Russian state television covered the subject. Footage aired included that of a 28-year-old paratrooper who was buried with full military honors and a gun salute. However, the networks toed the Kremlin line, claiming that he was a "volunteer" and a "patriot" who did not tell his wife or commanding officer about going to Ukraine.
Another so-called "volunteer" lionized by Russian state media was Lance Corporal Nikolay Kozlov, a paratrooper who lost his leg in Ukraine. State TV footage of Lance Corporal Kozlov featured sad piano music playing over footage of him lying in a hospital bed with his pregnant wife at his side. Lance Corporal Kozlov's father, an Afghan War veteran, is proud of him while his uncle, Sergey, is more disillusioned, naturally creating a rift in the family. "He went there because he was ordered to…Move forward, destroy positions, and keep going," said Sergey Kozlov.
At Sergeant Kichatkin's funeral there were around 100 people including several high-ranking military officers in attendance at the 15th century Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Pskov. The church cemetery was not far from the 76th Division headquarters. The crowd showed up even though the funeral was officially closed to the public. A police presence prevented any further entry. According to Pskov deputy Lev Schlossberg, it was the 76th that handled the funeral arrangements. Schlossberg, in addition to being a local parliamentarian in the opposition Yabloko Party in the Pskov regional assembly, is a newspaper editor.
In May 2015 President Putin declared military deaths in peacetime – not just wartime – a state secret. Coincidently, the decree was made after a report was released by allies of slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov regarding Russia's role in the Ukraine conflict. Despite the objections of human rights groups, Russia's Supreme Court maintains the decree's legality. The law covers injuries as well as deaths. It amended a decree to extend the list of state secrets to include information on casualties during special operations when there are no formal declarations of war. The previous list only prohibited "revealing personnel losses in wartime." Revealing state secrets in Russia is punishable by a prison sentence of at most seven years.
President Putin's spokesman, Dmitriy Peskov, said that the act had no connection to the Ukraine crisis. Peskov referred to the decree as a "routine improvement in the law in the area of state secrets." According to Melnikova of Soldiers' Mothers, withholding information on all military losses was a common practice during Soviet times, and this act just legalized it. Russia only revealed casualty numbers after the 2008 Russo-Georgian conflict. Theoretically, there is supposed to be more accountability and the death of a Russian soldier is supposed to trigger an inquiry.
According to Sergey Krivenko, a member of the presidential human rights council, the Russian government could exploit this decree to intimidate activists, journalists, or relatives. The decree refers specifically to defense ministry information, but the Russian government could apply it more broadly. The opposition believes that by denying that Russian soldiers are in Ukraine, the Russian military is denying families death benefits and other awards as well as denying soldiers' disability payments. Lev Schlossberg informed Russian blogger Oleg Kashin that the government told families of paratroopers to keep quiet and threatened them with a loss of state welfare if they spoke out. If a soldier dies in action, his family is entitled to a compensation payment of USD 40,785, an insurance payment of USD 27,190, and a monthly stipend. If a soldier dies in a conflict officially recognized as a Russian war, the family is entitled to additional benefits that can include a new apartment. Schlossberg, however, maintains that the families of those killed in Ukraine are only receiving benefits if they keep quiet.
After Soldiers' Mothers went public with information it received about Russian forces in Ukraine, the Russian government declared the organization – specifically its St. Petersburg chapter – a "foreign agent," a label often used by the Russian government to silence critics. This occurred after the organization asked Russian investigators to look into allegations of soldiers dying in Ukraine.
The information is easy to suppress because most Russians get their news from state TV. These channels portray the Kievan government as a neo-fascist junta that wants to slaughter all ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. Through state media, the Russian government spreads rumors of a "fifth column" operating within the country that seeks to implement a Maidan-style revolution inside Russia. Therefore, any individual or entity that speaks out against the war is portrayed as being part of this conspiracy. Families fear such labels and are therefore reluctant to speak out.
The Russian government destroys the reputations of those who speak out on TV, and has created an environment that encourages violence and intimidation toward critics. The Andrianov family experienced such intimidation tactics from the Russian government. When Corporal Andrianov's brother reportedly "raised hell" with the 106th Guards Airborne Division over how long it took the paratrooper's body to reach the family, one officer told him to "quit calling" and promised him USD 1,850. Natasha Andiranova fears to speak out and so do her neighbors. She admits that she could have paid bribes to keep her son out of the military, and also says that despite the fact that she gave information to journalists, she remains afraid that "people might come [to her home]" and she does not know "what they will do." At the same time she is angry at the government. She wants her son to receive the Hero of Russia medal, but Russia only gives out the award in war and officially there is no war. (However, President Putin did give medals to some paratroopers who fought in Ukraine.) The only representative from the Russian military that attended her son's funeral was the VDV captain who delivered his body.
Fresh graves have appeared in the Russian city of Pskov near the Estonian border and a five-hour drive from St. Petersburg. Pskov is also a military city and home to the 76th Guards Air Assault Division. It is believed that an entire company of Pskov paratroopers is buried in these graves. Pskov paratroopers deployed to Ukraine in August 2014 stopped calling and writing their families afterward. On 21 August 2014 Ukrainian soldiers captured two Russian armored vehicles near Luhansk. Inside, they found roll-call sheets listing the names of 60 Pskov paratroopers. In August 2014 Anatoliy Vorobey, a Russian blogger based in Tel Aviv, posted a picture online of logbooks from a BMD-2 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV). The logbooks included a listing for a 30-year-old VDV sergeant named Leonid Kichatkin. Then, postings on VKontakte regarding Sergeant Kichatkin's death only caused the families' concerns to reemerge.
This panicked the VDV families living in Pskov. In response, the 76th's commander addressed the incident calling the Ukrainians' findings "pure provocation." He flew to Pskov the next day and assured the families that everyone in the brigade was alive. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu and VDV commander Colonel-General Vladimir Shamanov claimed that the 76th did not participate in combat. General Shamanov assured the families, "Everyone is alive and well in our assault paratroopers division." Major General Igor Konashenkov, a Ministry of Defense (MoD) official, said that the information about the paratroopers' deaths was "a falsehood." Pro-Kremlin trolls also helped to toe the government line by claiming that the images of the paratroopers' graves had been photo-shopped. As the military and its legions of trolls denied the stories, 76th Division wreaths rested on the paratroopers' graves.
Other journalists decided to examine the graves themselves. Novaya Gazeta's Nina Petlyanova and Fontanka's Irina Tumanova traveled to Pskov with Vladimir Romenskiy of TV Dozhd (TV Rain) and Russkaya Planeta's Ilya Vasyunin. On 26 August they approached the gravesites but were accosted by a group of thugs. They returned the next day with additional reporters from Novaya Gazeta and Fontanka only to be attacked again. Romenskiy and Vasyunin filmed the attack. Hooded thugs, donning tracksuits and balaclavas, tried to break the windows of the reporters' car and puncture the tires with large screws. One reporter called the police while another tried to get the attackers to back off by promising to leave. They eventually released video footage of their ordeal. In the video's background, graves adorned with VDV wreaths and Russian Orthodox crucifixes are clearly visible.
By October 2014 the men guarding the graves had left, but the Pskov families still refused to speak to journalists and the 76th did not respond to any inquires. According to Schlossberg, "The ones who know what happened are terrified to speak." The Russian government has threatened to tear up soldiers' contracts and cut off the families' financial support. Given how much most are making, they could end up on the street. The government threatened the families with a loss of death benefits and pensions if they spoke to the press.
Schlossberg continued to investigate, publishing leaked documents stating that 80 Pskov paratroopers died on 20 August 2014 in Ukraine. Schlossberg believes that the cover-up is widespread and that the number of soldiers killed in Ukraine is hundreds if not more. On 26 August, the same day that Schlossberg published his initial story, Ukraine announced the capture of ten Russian paratroopers on its soil. Kiev released interrogation videos of the soldiers as President Putin met with his counterpart, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in Minsk, Belarus. The captured paratroopers were supposedly from the 331st Airborne Regiment in Kostroma, but their confessions could have easily have been forced. The paratroopers claimed that their commanders misled them, informing them that they would be conducting a training exercise but instead sent them across the border to Ukraine.
The Kremlin actually acknowledged the incident albeit with a media spin. President Putin claimed that the paratroopers were patrolling the border and got lost in Ukraine. The families in Kostroma, meanwhile, were outraged. According to a Kostroma mother, most families only found out about the incident because of the Internet. The families gathered outside the division headquarters demanding that the military bring their sons home. Moscow eventually exchanged 63 Ukrainian soldiers for the ten paratroopers.
On 16 September 2014 Schlossberg sent a deputies' inquiry to the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. He asked questions about the fate of the 76th servicemen. The prosecutor's office released the cases of 12 paratroopers' burials and deaths: Aleksandr Baranov, Sergey Volkov, Dmitriy Ganin, Vasiliy Gerasimchuk, Aleksey Karpenko, Tleuzham Konibayev, Leonid Kichatkin, Anton Korolenko, Aleksandr Kulikov, Maksim Mezentsev, Aleksandr Osipov, and Ivan Sokol. The office did not, however, reveal the circumstances of the paratroopers' deaths. It reported that the servicemen died outside of places of permanent deployment. It also found no legal violations. The office assured the families that they would receive social benefits. All other information was classified a state secret and the office was not able to answer Schlossberg's inquires. No one has yet found a list of all 80 names of the dead paratroopers from the 76th Division's 1st Parachute Company.
Schlossberg is not the only one whose inquiries have ended in failure. For example, Dmitriy Gudkov, an opposition lawmaker, requested an inquiry into the deaths of at least three Russian soldiers – including some based in Pskov – killed in Ukraine. The MoD refused to comment, and dismissed Gudkov's assertions as "rumors" spread by the Kiev junta. On 27 January 2015 opposition figure Boris Nemtsov addressed an official inquiry to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. He demanded an investigation into the deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine. The government never answered his inquiries and Nemtsov was assassinated a month later.
Increasing numbers of Russian youths are dodging the draft in order to avoid service in eastern Ukraine. Soldiers' Mothers is receiving an increase in the number of calls from families with sons who have just turned 18. Officially, conscripts cannot be sent to war, though they may be forced to sign contracts once their service is over in order to discourage draft dodging. Soldiers' Mothers has appealed to both the Russian prosecutor's office and the MoD on the subject of forcing soldiers to sign contracts to which they received no response.
Draft dodging was commonplace in Soviet Russia during both world wars and especially during the Soviet-Afghan War. In post-Soviet Russia draft dodging retained its popularity during both Chechen wars. Twice a year, Russia drafts 150,000 to 200,000 men between the ages of 18 and 27 to serve for one year. The exact figures on how many Russians dodge the draft are difficult to obtain. The Russian government keeps the exact figures carefully hidden to avoid embarrassment. Some estimates indicate that up to 50 percent of conscripts draft dodge. According to a 2013 General Staff report, 244,000 men avoided conscription in 2012. 8,794 did not show up to the recruiting center while 235,800 avoided the draft via other means. Those who dodge the draft in Russia can receive a prison sentence of up to two years. 30,000 conscripts are charged and 1,000 are convicted each year.
Conscripts have developed rather ingenious ways to avoid the draft. One, who identified himself as "Dmitriy," paid USD 2,000 to be considered mentally ill. In addition to paying bribes, many conscripts will forge their birth certificates. Some will get their doctor to give them a medical exemption. This can cost up to USD 100,000 which is too much for most.
In Russia there are few incentives to join the military as most conscripts earn up to USD 10 each month. Many refuse to join because they fear poor conditions and brutal hazing. In fact, hazing is the primary reason outside of war why many Russians try to avoid conscription. Second-year conscripts, being senior to first-year conscripts, relentlessly haze the latter. Conscript deaths in 2014 included hundreds of suicides. To combat conscription evasion, the Russian military has reduced the service limit for conscripts from 18 months to 12 months.
The opinions of those who actually fought in Ukraine vary. In one instance, Russian soldiers chose to quit rather than continue fighting in Donbas. One soldier, from Moscow and serving in Russia's elite Kantemirovskaya tank division, was told that he was going on exercises in southern Russia. Instead he ended up in eastern Ukraine. His lieutenant colonel informed him and his comrades when they crossed the border that they would be sent to prison if they disobeyed orders. Some of the soldiers did refuse to follow orders, and the lieutenant colonel informed them that the government was pursuing criminal charges against them. In reality, the men just quit.
When asked if he would return to Ukraine voluntarily to fight, the former tank soldier responded, "No, what for? That's not our war. If our troops were there officially it would be a different story." The soldier deployed to Ukraine in the summer of 2014 and then returned in September 2014 during the Minsk I ceasefire. In combat he operated a T-72B3 tank. The men were told that they would get a daily allowance for fighting along with medals. They never received either. Fourteen men eventually quit the division.
The names of nine soldiers who quit were mentioned in an exchange of letters between Viktor Miskovets, a human resources department head in Russia's Western Military District, and Melnikova of Soldiers' Mothers. The rights group petitioned Miskovets to accept the soldiers' resignations, though one soldier maintained that the military was unwilling to do this. The letters did not mention service in Ukraine. The soldiers left service on 12 December 2014. The MoD refused to comment on the incident, and three of the soldiers who quit refused to talk about Ukraine.
Another soldier who quit was a 21-year-old member of a Grad missile unit. His unit took up position 2 km from the Russo-Ukrainian border near Rostov in summer 2014. The mission appeared to be an exercise though the men were told to treat it as real combat. At one point, the unit was ordered to fire at a target 17 km away and possibly in Ukraine. He recalled, "I was hoping that I did not aim at any people. Or at least that I missed the target." Fellow soldiers told him that another battery from his unit crossed the border and spent ten days in Ukraine. "I did not understand who was fighting and what for, and the point of it," he said.
According to Lev Schlossberg, "Many soldiers are tearing up their contracts…Many were ready to fight in Chechnya because it was seen as a fight for Russian territory, plus it was an open war. This is a secret war, and it's not clear who is fighting who. Soldiers think that if they are good to serve the government, the government should only serve them…The army is very resistive right now." Schlossberg also reported that the hidden funerals "really pissed off" other Pskov soldiers who think that the services should be recognized.
Reports indicate that the Russian government has employed rather brutal methods to keep its troops' morale high. The Russian MVD's (Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del; Ministry of Internal Affairs) Dzerzhinskiy Division has units operating in Donbas serving as "barrier squads," punitive action, anti-retreat troops. The division bears the name of Felix Dzerzhinskiy, the Polish-born head of Vladimir Lenin's secret police, the Cheka. The troops operate behind the lines of regular Russian troops and the rebels. Reports indicate that they are present in both the northern part of rebel-controlled Debaltseve and near Mariupol in the south. There have been at least five confirmed occasions of them taking action against Russian regulars. They are also reportedly used against Russian rebels. Their deployment highlights the problems that Russia has with the morale of both its troops and the rebels.
Other Russian veterans of the Ukraine conflict are less disillusioned. Dorji Batomunkuev, a tank operator who received grievous burns fighting in Donbas, expressed no regrets for his role in the conflict. He said, "It is pointless to have regrets. I don't bear any grievances because I know that I fought for a good cause. I went with a feeling not of duty, but of justice. I saw how [the Ukrainians] kill people. They do whatever the hell they like." He was told by his superiors that there were Polish and Chechen mercenaries in Ukraine killing civilians, though he never saw any himself.
Batomunkuev maintained that he had some concern as to whether or not there were any injury payouts given to his family. However, he also stated that he was done with military service. He instead wants to go to the Sensation dance event in St. Petersburg, an annual event which features the best DJs and in which all attendants wear white. Nevertheless, he harbors no ill feelings toward the Russian government or President Putin. "I don't really have anything against [Putin]." Batomunkuev said. "He's a very interesting person, of course, and crafty: he's sending troops, but not sending them. 'There are no troops there,' he tells the world. But then he says to us 'Jump to it.'" Russia did agree to pay for his treatment, and his mother got in touch with his unit after much persistence.
In August 2015 the Russian military generated an ad hoc formation composed of 20 contract soldiers from various units and deployed them to Novorossiysk, a military port in southwestern Russia located in the country's Eastern Military District. One of the soldiers, identifying himself only as "Aleksey," recalled, "Our regiment has lots of companies, and we were told they had picked out the best 20 fighters." In cryptic language, the documents given to the contractors (used in this sense to refer to Russian soldiers serving under contract as opposed to compulsion) by their commanders made no mention of where they would deploy to from Novorossiysk and referred to the deployment merely as "an assignment." There was also no date on the documents indicating when they would return.
The soldiers took their contracts to the local military prosecutor's office hoping to have them terminated. The contractors also petitioned the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. Council member Sergey Krivenko affirmed that only a written order, which the soldiers did not receive, had legitimacy in the Russian armed forces. Also, according to the Russian constitution, any soldier can demand status for service. Nevertheless, military prosecutors not only rejected the soldiers' claims that the Syria deployment was a violation of their rights, but turned them over to the FSB for interrogation. Each of the soldiers could face state treason charges which carry a maximum 20-year prison sentence.
Pavlov believes that the Russian armed forces have treated their soldiers as "cannon fodder". He stated, "[The soldiers] must follow orders, of course, but any order must be clear and legal so that they could make sure for themselves if the war is theirs or not." This was not the Kremlin's policy with regard to troops deploying covertly to Donbas and it appears the same is now true regarding its soldiers deploying to yet another politically sensitive conflict.
Pavlov is fighting an uphill battle. In less than six months, he has already defended four Russians charged with state treason, a trend he refers to as "a real wave." The increase in treason charges is because of a foreign agent law signed by President Putin in 2012. Given the precedents set by previous cases, it is highly likely that these soldiers could face treason charges. For example, Gennadiy Kravtsov, one of Pavlov's clients and a former intelligence radio engineer, received a 14-year prison sentence for merely sending his resume to a Swedish company.
Nevertheless, Pavlov remains confident. He claims that "the noise that the soldiers raised has helped them so far, all of them have been sent back to their original bases in the Ural Mountains." However, he warned that "if authorities decide to prosecute the soldiers with treason, we are going to make public the soldiers' names and release more details about how army commanders kept their soldiers in the dark." A grassroots movement orchestrated by defiant soldiers and human rights activists could very well bring public attention to the covert insertion and intimidation tactics that the Kremlin applies to its soldiers serving in Donbas and now Syria, generating significant domestic pushback against Russian involvement in these conflicts.
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If Landlord's fear one thing, it's a void period. When you property is 'in between tenants', it just sits there empty, raiding your bank, without giving anything back. The obvious solution is to avoid void periods all together, but just how can you achieve this?
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The answer may come from observing the practices of large businesses. It is a well-known fact that it costs more to bring in new customers than it does to keep hold of existing ones. In other words, it's all about emphasising and expanding Customer Service.
There's no reason why landlords can't take the same approach. Aim to keep your tenants forever and void periods will never appear. Marketing costs go down and everyone can enjoy the increased security that consistency brings.
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Tenants want a landlord that says yes to their requests. They want to feel like their home is improving over time and you should to. The costs of these requests will often be small – especially compared to the price of a new tenant – and beneficial to you in the long run. Fitting a new shower, replacing the old bed and upgrading the fridge will help keep your tenants happy and increase the capital value of your property.
If you receive any requests that might reduce the value of your property, then a compromise with the tenants is totally acceptable. If they want a pet, for example, there's no harm in saying yes, so long as they pay a higher security deposit and sign a pets clause, keeping them responsible for any damage that may arise as a result.
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No matter how hard you try to keep your tenants happy in one property, there will almost certainly come a time when they simply need a larger place. Families grow and the amount of bedrooms they'll need will grow, too. For this reason, it's worth investing in a range of different properties, so your happy tenants make you their first port of call at moving time.
If they're happy with you, there's no reason why they shouldn't swap properties, without swapping landlords, too.
No matter how hard you try, you simply can't invest in enough properties to suit all your tenants' needs. What you can do is buy a property based on their specific desires. This option isn't for all, as it can become a significant increase in your portfolio, but for those looking to expand with the demand, this can keep you renting to the same tenants for years and years and years.
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Immigrants contribute to the culture of Philadelphia. I unequivocally support our hardworking immigrant population; many who own local businesses. I support the City's Sanctuary policy and believe we need to combat the misinformation about the immigration debate and contributions made by immigrant communities in general. Priority: Mandating multicultural training for all City employees. Support ESL programs within the school district. Reinforce safeguards regarding ICE in our Sanctuary City.
If there are sexually violent offenders, the public should be protected
In addition to ending City interaction with ICE, we must also decarcerate our city and end policies and practices that overpolice and criminalize people of color in our schools and communities, such as unconstitutional stop and frisk. We must end the school to prison pipeline and replace metal detectors and police officers in our schools with social workers and restorative practices.
I do not support allowing ICE to target, detain or otherwise deport law abiding members of our community who have come here seeking a better life and are working to make themselves and our community better. I also support a path to citizenship for immigrants. However, in the narrow circumstances where someone who is here without documentation has committed a violent crime, I believe that person should not be allowed to stay following their sentence.
I need to learn more about the options available to the City and how to replace revenue lost from not accepting federal funds.
Law enforcement's job is public safety. Taking part in immigration enforcement strains our police force's community relationships and, ultimately, makes our city less safe. The Sheriff's Department should reduce the list of misdemeanors that could be cause for deportation; the Sheriff's Department's website should stop publishing
Through City Council's budget process, I would carefully monitor federal funds received by the City and the companies the City plans to enter into contract with to provide services to immigrants.I would continue to work with law enforcement officials, school district representatives and others to ensure ICE's presence in our community is eliminated and increase funding for the Immigrant Affairs office and groups on the front lines to adequately serve the needs of our immigrant communities.
These ideas are indefensible. I.C.E. is staffed by patriots who defend us from drug traffickers as well as human traffickers. There are people who are forced to have sex twenty, thirty times a day by vicious traffickers who are here illegally. I.C.E. is not "rounding people up" arbitrarily. Sanctuary city policies do nothing but harm our community. They do not build trust. No one is deported for being a witness to a crime. I.C.E. is here with a federal mandate to deport criminal illegal aliens.
I've been clear ICE is not an agency that can be fixed or reformed, it must be dismantled. I joined Philadelphia activists to protest ICE at its doorstep and have worked for years to end our deeply harmful information-sharing agreements including the successful push to bar ICE from accessing PARS. It's a core responsibility of my position to represent immigrant Philadelphians regardless of status and will continue to identify additional ways to limit ICE's reach in our city.
If we are to truly be a Sanctuary City rather than one in name only we need to sever any and all ties between our city and ICE. If elected to City Council, I will support Sanctuary City legislation that will forbid the city from accepting, seeking out, or honoring ICE contracts, banning any collaboration between city employees i.e police from cooperating in any manner with ICE.
With Philadelphia being a city that embraces the rights of immigrants, I would support any bill that would end interaction, collaboration, and limitations on the presence of ICE.
There is already enough mistrust and apprehension in black and brown communities around police, hospitals and Human Services without adding the threat of deportation. Cooperating with ICE only makes fraught tense relationships more strained.
I worked defending the rights of immigrants, reuniting families and minors at the border, and helping return to Mexico the bodies of immigrants who died crossing the border. I was MOIMA's Deputy Director. I lead the internal campaign to convince the Mayor to stop cooperation with ICE and helped in the negotiation with advocate community and city council to draft executive order that turn Philadelphia into a Sanctuary City. I'll always be a passionate advocate for my community.

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This week's Parsha has the very first mitzvah given to the entire Jewish people. (There are a few given earlier to Adam and Eve and Avraham, but this week is the first official commandment to all of Bnei Yisroel.
When I teach the Parsha, I usually ask the students, "If G-d let you pick the first mitzvah in the Torah, what would you pick?" Some answer, "The commandment that we believe in G-d;" some answer, "Thou shalt not kill," etc. Nobody ever guesses the actual first mitzvah, Kiddush haChodesh. This mitzvah basically states that for any Jewish month to begin, two or more witnesses have to testify that they saw the moon begin to grow from its minimal crescent.
All of us get a calendar from a Jewish organization which tells us when the month starts. These are based on the mathematical formulae which tell us when the moon cycle starts. Even thousands of years ago, they knew the calculations when the cycle began; so why require people to go and testify at the High Court to get the month started? Why not simply use the math, as our calendars do? Also, this seems like a very odd choice for the very first mitzvah.
The Torah's first mitzvah has an amazing message: we start the month, we control our time, and our very quality of life boils down to how we manage our time. That's life in a nutshell: a block of time management, from birth to expiration date. Rather than passively letting time pass us by, we hold the key to starting and managing time.
I pen these words on my beloved father-in-law's yahrtzeit. Since his passing, I think more about time and how I fill it. During his illness, I spent a lot of time in hospitals with the TV on in the background, and like most Americans, during the last election. I sat in astonishment at the circus antics and sniping coming from all directions, and wondered about the fate of our society. Then I would return to the reality of the hospital room and staff, and I found it very comforting to see the dedicated, kind professionals working tirelessly to heal and comfort people.
Then I'd go to work at The ARK, surrounded by my dedicated, wonderful colleagues working with constant professionalism and kindness to help our community; and I felt comforted, knowing that despite the power-hungry, back-stabbing, self-serving people I saw on TV, there is this alternate planet of wonderful people who bring beauty and light to our world. They're not on the TV news, in the headlines, or on Twitter, because they're too busy doing good to self-promote and crave attention. They actually are busy with a purpose. Their time management is beautiful and pristine.
I recently attended the funeral of Rabbi Aron Leib Shteinman in Israel. I, along with 400,000 other attendees, paid my respect to this holy man. Until he was in his 80's (like Moshe, who was 80 at the time of the Burning Bush), Rabbi Shteiman was virtually unknown outside of his small circle of acquaintance. He taught, and dedicated his life to teaching, doing acts of kindness, and scholarship. As the elder leaders of Israel got older, they chose this quiet, unassuming man to take the reins of guidance.
He lived in simple modesty. His home was threadbare. He still slept on the same mattress he received from the Keren Kayemet nearly 70 years ago when he arrived in Israel. Most of the money he earned went to those less fortunate than he (who probably had better mattresses than he did.) In his 80 years of dedication to our people, his complete lack of ego, flying under the radar until (like Moshe) he was forced into the limelight against his will. On his grave stone, at his request, it only says, "here lies Aron Yehuda Leib." This man spent the last years of his life as the captain of the Torah community (and he visited Chicago about 25 years ago), promoting unity, sensitivity to others, and the continuity of Judaism, until his 104th year. Now that's time management—and perfectly illustrates the reason that G-d chose as the first mitzvah the idea that we actively manage our time and create moments; and that we are not just passive as time marches on.
We should all be blessed to use our moments to bring light and harmony to the world.
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The race to supply thousands of Barbadian households and businesses with electricity produced from the wind's energy might not be won by Barbados Light & Power Company.
With the longstanding supplier still seeking permission from land owner Barbados Farms Limited to build its promised wind farm in St. Lucy, one of the country's most familiar commercial entities has teamed up with a new Barbadian renewable energy enterprise and is developing a $25 million wind energy project with the capacity to supply almost 4,500 homes with power.
This was confirmed this evening by Cave Shepherd & Company Limited Chief Executive Officer, John Williams, who told Barbados TODAY his organisation had invested in RE Power Barbados as part of a strategic diversification policy. That investment has taken the form of equity, which have made Cave Shepherd a shareholder.
And while also revealing that the two partners with Canadian and Barbadian interests would be looking to attract other investors as the venture developed, the private sector boss said its success also hinged on the speed with which Government introduced legislation enabling the electricity produced to be fed into the national grid via BL&P.
Next month will be two years since BL&P received the green light to build a wind farm at Lamberts.
The original plan was to construct a 10 megawatt facility wind farm comprised of 11 wind turbines, associated control building, and access tracks.
Conversely, RE Power and Cave Shepherd's project is intended to be a smaller 5.6 megawatt, but would generate enough electricity to power 4,500 homes, while reducing fuel costs by approximately $3 a year, and also eliminating 10,000 tonness of carbon dioxide emissions.
Additionally, unlike the BL&P model, RE Power's plan will not see a cluster of wind turbines on one location.
"In the first instance they are looking at what they call distributed wind, which means that there are looking for individual turbines rather than large wind farms," Williams noted.
"It is a new area for us so the size of it gave us a level of comfort that it was something we could manage and we felt very comfortable with the partners, … who they were, but very importantly that they had the requisite experience in this business, particularly in Nova Scotia in Canada.
"The biggest challenge really is the unknown, when that legislation will get to Parliament, but it is, as we understand it, quite far advanced so we are hopeful that it will be sooner rather than later," Williams added.
He was hopeful other investors would join the initiative, pointing out "there will be need for debt financing as well".
RE Power founder and President Barry Creamer said the aim was to locate the individual wind turbines mainly on agricultural lands, allowing a "small amount" of land to be taken out of production and farming to continue. The aim was also to locate the turbines away from households.
Those involved have not disclosed the location of the first turbine.


Adjust the sugar according to the sweetness of the fruit, and keep some seeds for garnishing. The creamy and delicious ice-cream with that red ruby like pomegranate seeds… So perfect for the season!
In a blender, juice the pomegranate seeds and stain.
In large bowl add the milk, sugar and whisk till the sugar has dissolved. Now add the juice, cream, essence and beat well with a electric beater till everything is combined.
Pour the mixture into a container and cover tightly and freeze for an hour. Remove and beat with an electric beater for a couple minutes and into the freezer. Repeat this process 3-4 times at regular intervals to ensure that no crystals are formed and the ice cream is creamy. Into the freezer for a final freeze to set for 6-8 hours or over night undisturbed.
Remove the ice cream from the freezer 5 minutes before you serve so its easy to scoop it out. Garish with the remaining seeds before serving.
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About You: Wrong side of 50, never heard of the Fruvous, although someone said she'd send me a cd of a live recording of one of their concerts. A while ago I bumbled into this site looking for someone, and was impressed by the niveau of communications. Sometimes witty, sometimes funny, and swearwords only when called for. So I keep visiting from time to time. I drive a truck for a living, like to listen to J. S. Bach, Led Zeppelin, W. Mozart, Pink Floyd, Chopin, Joni Mitchell, Vivaldi, John Mayall among others and behave like an extreme stick in the mud.


Is interested in going into the music industry and is making efforts towards it.
We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money.


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Home News Diagnosed Two Years Ago With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, A Lung Disease With No Cure, He Was Put On An Experimental Drug With Horrible Side Effects.
Diagnosed Two Years Ago With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, A Lung Disease With No Cure, He Was Put On An Experimental Drug With Horrible Side Effects.
Bill Davis, a Christian author who leads a Bible study for people fighting drug addiction, said he was bedridden before trying marijuana. Diagnosed two years ago with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease with no cure, he was put on an experimental drug with horrible side effects. I had to decide whether I wanted to die of lung disease or kidney or liver failure, Davis said. Then he started vaping marijuana, which he says allows him to control the amount of CBD and Medical marijuana stocks THC he receives. Im praying this state will allow me to be treated legally for me to live using a plant that God made, he said. Republican Rep. Jonathon Hill said he signed onto the bill after hearing Davis story over dinner at his home. He is living, walking proof that there can be some very real benefits, he said. A bill allowing people with a debilitating medical condition, or their adult caregivers, to legally possess 2 ounces (57 grams) of marijuana advanced last month to the Houses full medical committee. Its Republican backers tout the bills seed-to-sale tracking as guarding against recreational use.
To read more visit http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/27/united-states-medical-marijuana-south/
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