Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that martial law entails the mobilisation of citizens aged 25 and older, and that to bring Ukrainian soldiers home, Russia should be forced to end ...

openDemocracy spoke to three Russian men about their fears of being drafted and how they have coped in the past year A year ago today (21 September), the Russian authorities announced the start of ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has commented on the draft law adopted by the Ukrainian parliament to improve certain issues of mobilisation, military registration, and military service.

On September 21, the Russian President ordered a partial mobilisation for some of the country’s citizens as a means to combat the scale of Moscow troop casualties from the war. Since March, General ...

President Vladimir Putin’s “partial mobilisation” is Russia’s first since the second world war. Officially, he plans to boost troop numbers by calling up 300,000 reservists. But Putin’s official ...

“A week ago you could have called it relocating, but now the whole situation is like a stampede,” Oleg* wrote to openDemocracy on Telegram. In the week since Vladimir Putin announced a mobilisation of ...

Moscow (AFP) – Ivan Nesterov, a well-built fitness trainer, came back to Russia six months after fleeing the mobilisation that propped up Russian forces fighting in Ukraine last fall. Like Nesterov, ...

When Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation of Russian reservists and the need for 300,000 fighters to join his war in Ukraine, he insisted the men would be summoned according to strict ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a partial mobilisation after Moscow’s troops suffered losses in Ukraine. In a televised address on Wednesday, Putin warned Western nations supporting ...

Nigeria is at a critical juncture in its development journey, and the window of opportunity is narrowing. More than six in 10 Nigerians face high deprivations in clean energy, healthcare, education, ...