Universities push young people to fight as Putin's army bleeds to death - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
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Universities push young people to fight as Putin's army bleeds to death - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
""We are not given academic leave... the rector's office does its best to send its students to serve under contract,""
""If the commission is not passed, you should be expelled.""
""They are doing everything they can to get students under contract," a source told Astra, describing the moves as a "crisis on campuses.""
""They are not winning this. Small gains only. Almost irrelevant.""
Top Russian universities are applying administrative measures to push students into military service, including tightened academic deadlines and shortened debt-clearance periods that force a choice between enlistment and expulsion. Faculty and administrators reportedly promote contract service and hold recruitment drives in lecture halls, with particular pressure on students struggling academically. Critics characterize these measures as coercive and likely to send young people to the battlefield instead of allowing continued education. The intensifying pressure on campuses occurs alongside mounting battlefield losses in Ukraine, increasing domestic strain and prompting alarm from international observers.
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