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Sociologist: Larger Russian mobilization likely to begin after Duma elections

From Postimees · () Estonian

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  • Oleksandr Shulga, a Kyiv-based sociologist who studies Russian society through telephone surveys, says Russia has improved its recruitment systems since the full-scale invasion.
  • He predicts any new mobilization would be conducted faster and more efficiently than the 2022 campaign, avoiding the administrative collapse and unrest seen then.
  • Shulga believes a larger mobilization would probably begin after elections to Russia’s State Duma.

Russia appears ready for a new mobilization wave, according to Oleksandr Shulga, head of the Kyiv-based IKAR sociological research center.

Shulga studies Russian society through telephone surveys and says the country has spent the years since its full-scale invasion refining its recruitment systems. The aim, he says, is to avoid a repeat of the unrest and mass flight of young men abroad that followed the mobilization announced in autumn 2022.

“If Russia decides to organize mobilization, it will carry it out more effectively and quickly, without the kind of administrative collapse seen in autumn 2022,” Shulga told Postimees. He believes a larger mobilization would most likely begin after elections to the State Duma.

If Russia decides to organize mobilization, it will carry it out more effectively and quickly, without the kind of administrative collapse seen in autumn 2022.

· Oleksandr ShulgaThe sociologist predicted how a future Russian mobilization would differ from the 2022 campaign.
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