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Dagestan and Mobilization.
Let’s be clear, Russia is the last remaining empire. Just because its holdings are not on another continent, it does not mean it’s not an empire. The general mobilization (there is nothing partial about it with ethnic minorities) is further destabilizing the Russian Imperial Project.
One of the places that are exploding is Dagestan, not the first time either. Like Ukraine once was, Dagestan is an internal colony. There have been a lot of street demonstrations in the capital of Makhachkala, with at least 150 people arrested.
Their demands are simple:
Stop the mobilization, free all the people arrested. As of the last time I checked, ten had been freed. So what is getting planned in the imperial heart of the empire? Ramzan Kadyrov has been given the bloody task of suppressing this.
According to Volymedia:
The suppression of protests in Dagestan is entrusted to units of Ramzan Kadyrov and the Russian Guard. According to sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Chechen units from the special forces training base in Gudermes, as well as units of the Russian Guard stationed in Chechnya, should arrive in the republic in the next day or two.
The units of the Russian Guard transferred from other regions of the Russian Federation will also be brought in. Now they…