Stories — October 2025

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Stories — October 2025

According to the 2026 draft budget data

2 October

Editors, Boris Grozovski

Putin’s War Economy Reaches Limit

There are deserters who flee the war right from the frontlines. Some of them, like corporal Pavlov, manage to do so twice. He told us his story

15 October

Aleksandr Atasuntsev

��“Dumb Way to Fight”

Russian cadets at military universities and academies say they are being deprived of the right to resign. At the same time, their military contracts are now permanent under Putin’s 2022 mobilization decree

29 October

Irina Dolinina, Aleksandr Atasuntsev

“They Aren’t Letting Us Go.” Russian Cadets Lured into Military Service with No Way Out

What else can we learn from the Russian court rulings data from the first half of 2025?

21 October

Sonya Savina, Rina Nikolaeva, Polina Uzhvak

Russia Breaks “Treason” Sentences Record, Publishes Data on How Many Criminals Escaped Punishment by Going to War

From July to September 2025, courts in Russia’s so-called new territories imposed sentences in this category of cases every three days. Teenagers, pensioners, women, and even entire families have fallen victim to the repression

13 October

Polina Uzhvak, Sonya Savina, Rina Nikolaeva

People Kidnapped and Sentenced with “Espionage” and “Treason” in Occupied Territories of Ukraine