Saida Sirazhudinova and Khazbi Budunov - What prompted Dagestani people to oppose “partial mobilization”? Why did the protests have a female voice? What influenced the course of the events? What’s spiritual and political life in the republic like? Saida Sirazhudinova and Khazbi Budunov discuss the anti-war protest in Russia’s Dagestan and its conditions
After a day of vague and sometimes contradictory statements by Russian officials, President Vladimir Putin clarified that Russia had recognized as independent the separatist formations in eastern Ukraine not merely as they exist now, but as comprising the much larger territory that they claim.