INSIDE RUSSIA - WHAT'S HAPPENING IN RUSSIA RIGHT NOW | September 9, 2026
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RUSSIA’S FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT EXCEEDS ANNUAL TARGET BY 53% IN EIGHT MONTHS
Russia’s federal budget deficit reached 5.79 trillion rubles ($68.12 billion) from January through August 2026, the Finance Ministry reported. This is 53% higher than the originally planned deficit for the entire year of 3.78 trillion rubles ($44.47 billion).
In August, the deficit declined compared with July, when it stood at 6.45 trillion rubles ($75.88 billion). Since the beginning of the year, however, it has reached 2.5% of GDP.
Russia’s budget revenues increased by 9.2% year-on-year over the first eight months of the year, reaching 25.9 trillion rubles ($304.71 billion). However, oil and gas revenues fell by 16.7% to 5 trillion rubles ($58.82 billion). Non-oil and gas revenues, by contrast, rose by 18.1% to 20.9 trillion rubles ($245.88 billion).
Expenditures over the same period reached 31.7 trillion rubles ($372.94 billion). The Finance Ministry attributed spending exceeding revenues to the accelerated advance financing of government contracts.
Earlier, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov urged the government to limit budget spending. At the same time, the government authorized the increase of expenditures beyond the originally planned 44 trillion rubles ($517.65 billion) through domestic borrowing.
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THE NUMBER OF RUSSIAN COMPANIES AND SOLE PROPRIETORS WITH OVERDUE LOANS TRIPLES DURING THE WAR
The number of corporate borrowers of Russian banks (companies and sole proprietors) stood at 709,600 as of August 1, more than a quarter of whom had overdue debt, the Central Bank of Russia reported.
Since the start of the war, the number of borrowers with bad debt has tripled, while their share of the total number of borrowers has more than doubled, according to Central Bank data. As of February 1, 2022, 60,900 borrowers, or 13.1%, had overdue loans with Russian banks, compared with 195,700, or 27.6%, as of August 1.
The number and share of borrowers with overdue debt began rising rapidly in the second half of 2024, when the economy began to slow down. Amid the economic crisis, Russian banks have become much more cautious about issuing loans, making refinancing more difficult. As a result, the share of borrowers with overdue debt increased by nearly a third over a year and a half, from 16.2% at the beginning of July 2024 to 23.8% by the end of 2025, and continued to rise this year.
Profitability in the vast majority of industries is significantly below lending rates, said Boris Kopeykin, chief economist at the Institute for the Economics of Growth. According to an estimate by the Stolypin Club, last year only one of 60 industries (tobacco product manufacturing) had a return on assets above the average lending rate, and according to calculations by the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMASF), Russian businesses are devoting a record-high 37% of operating profit to loan payments.
The total amount of overdue business loans stood at 3.2 trillion rubles ($40 billion) as of August 1. According to the Central Bank, the largest amounts of overdue debt are in retail and wholesale trade (623 billion rubles [$7.79 billion]), real estate transactions (570 billion rubles [$7.13 billion]), and manufacturing (498 billion rubles [$6.23 billion]).
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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF RUSSIANS MAY HAVE RECEIVED “MOBILIZATION ORDERS” AT MILITARY ENLISTMENT OFFICES
Russian citizens are increasingly receiving “mobilization orders” when summoned to military enlistment offices, which send notices to men to “clarify information” and update the military registration database.
Several hundred thousand Russians may have received the “order” insert in their military ID, which obliges them to report to an assembly point if mobilization is declared, estimates Timofey Vaskin, head of the legal department at the human rights organization Conscript School.
According to him, military enlistment offices issued mobilization orders in the past as well, both before the war and after it began, but in 2026 this practice has become widespread. “We do not know the exact figures because the information is classified. But judging by reports on social media and the number of inquiries we and our colleagues receive, the increase has been dramatic, by dozens of times,” Vaskin told Deutsche Welle.
The same is indicated by statistics from Russian internet search engines. According to Yandex Wordstat data, the number of searches asking what a “mobilization order” is has increased by more than 800% since the beginning of the year: there were 7,154 in January and 65,048 in August. This is the highest level since September–October 2022, when at least 300,000 Russians were forcibly conscripted to the war in Ukraine.
A summons to a military enlistment office to “clarify information” does not in itself mean that these people will necessarily be mobilized, conscripted, or sent to the front, emphasizes Artem Klyga, head of the legal department of the Conscientious Objectors’ Movement. However, if mobilization begins, it will help the authorities quickly recruit the people they need, he explains.
“This should be viewed as an instruction given to officials to prepare the system for any decision by Putin. And if that decision is mobilization, they are expected to be ready,” Klyga told Deutsche Welle.
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RUSSIAN SENATOR ADVISES YOUNG PEOPLE TO BECOME GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS INSTEAD OF ENTREPRENEURS IF THEY WANT TO MAKE MONEY
Young Russians need to become government officials if they want to make money, said Viktor Fedorov, a lawmaker in the parliament of Russia’s Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) from Putin’s political party United Russia.
“[You need to] enter public service. Because how are you going to make money in business now? Complete stagnation. Shopping centers are closing, retail spaces are closing. Restaurants have shut down. What business?” Fedorov said. He noted that entrepreneurship has become unprofitable because of rising taxes. At the same time, Fedorov is one of the wealthiest lawmakers in Yakutia. Until 2021, he was CEO of the investment company Ilin.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development reported that the economy grew by just 0.3% in the first half of 2026. Compared with the same period last year (1.2%), GDP growth slowed fourfold. In June, according to the ministry’s estimate, the economy accelerated to 1.1%. However, this was not enough to offset the contraction in the first quarter (-0.2%) and stagnation in April–May.
For the year as a whole, the Ministry of Economic Development expects GDP to grow by 0.4%, although it had previously forecast an increase of 1.2%. Thus, the Russian economy has “stalled” after the military boom of 2023–24, when the government allocated a record amount of money to the military since Soviet times.
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RUSSIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADUATES WILL BE OFFERED TRAINING FOR PRISON STAFF POSITIONS
The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of Russia intends to resume secondary vocational education programs that students can enter after finishing ninth grade of school. The initiative comes amid a shortage of personnel in correctional colonies.
The new rules are contained in a draft FSIN order published on Tuesday. It will replace the 2022 document that regulates training only under higher education programs — bachelor’s, specialist, and master’s degrees.
This is already the second FSIN document in recent weeks aimed at launching secondary specialized education (SVE) programs at the service’s educational institutions. The first order was signed on August 28; it approves a new admissions procedure for subordinate educational organizations that train mid-level specialists. The document states that applicants can enter such programs with a certificate of basic general or secondary general education.
The new draft provides that SVE programs will be developed taking into account the requirements for future FSIN employees. Cadets’ practical training will take place at institutions and bodies of the correctional system, while pre-graduation practical training will take place at the institution or body with which the cadet has signed a service contract.
Former analyst at the Moscow FSIN department and former member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission Anna Karetnikova sees several risks in the return of departmental SVE. The first is the spread of problems in departmental higher education to younger cadets. According to Karetnikova, graduates of FSIN educational institutions she has worked with often had weak professional training. “Now there is a risk that very poor education will begin not at a university, but already after ninth grade,” she told independent outlet Agenstvo.
Another risk is early professional deformation, Karetnikova believes. Practical training at penal system institutions will immerse cadets in a closed, militarized system as early as age 16–17, she noted. “The earlier a person prepares themselves for the idea that their future is predetermined, the less likely they are to leave it later,” Karetnikova said.
Training FSIN employees through secondary vocational education programs existed before as well. In the mid-2000s, the service’s system included the Voronezh FSIN College, the Far Eastern FSIN Law College, and the Perm FSIN College.
The return to this model is taking place against the backdrop of an acute personnel shortage in the FSIN. According to service director Arkady Gostev, as of June 1, the staffing shortfall stood at 30%. In March, he said that more than 40% of employees leave before reaching retirement age.
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OPPOSITION CANDIDATE IS REMOVED FROM PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION OVER SLOGAN “FOR A FREE INTERNET WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS”
Alexander Muravyov, candidate to the Russian Government from the country’s only anti-war party Yabloko, was removed from the election over the slogan “For a free internet without restrictions!” in his campaign.
Muravyov became the seventh single-member district candidate from the party to have his registration canceled in recent days, Yabloko’s press service said.
The lawsuit against Muravyov was filed by Yury Parkhomenko, a candidate from the Party of Pensioners. He argued that Muravyov, in a televised campaign video, had “disseminated information contributing to the formation of a negative attitude among voters toward other candidates and parties.” As justification, he cited Muravyov’s publications linking internet blocking to the actions of parliamentary parties — United Russia, the LDPR, and New People.
In addition, Muravyov was accused of copyright infringement for using an unlicensed font in his campaign materials.
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RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LINKS RISE IN CHURCH WEDDINGS TO DISAPPEARANCE OF WESTERN “ANTI-CHURCH HYPNOSIS” AFTER THE START OF THE WAR
Russians have begun getting married in church more often because Western “anti-church propaganda” has lost influence since the start of the war in Ukraine. This explanation was given to RIA Novosti by Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Patriarchal Commission on Family, the Protection of Motherhood and Childhood.
According to Lukyanov, before the war, an “anti-church wave” in Russia was largely “stoked from abroad.” After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, access to some foreign sources of information was restricted, which, in the Russian Orthodox Church representative’s view, contributed to a change in citizens’ attitudes toward the church.
“There have been more church weddings in Russia. This is connected to the fact that the propagandistic anti-church wave was largely stoked from abroad. And when these information channels were closed today because of the special military operation, the ‘anti-church hypnosis’ coming from pro-Western forces disappeared,” Lukyanov said.
At the same time, he provided no statistical data to support his claim. The Russian Orthodox Church does not publish statistics on the number of church weddings.
A week earlier, Lukyanov proposed bringing back Stalin-era methods of combating divorce. Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum on September 2, he called for using provisions of a 1944 Presidium of the Supreme Soviet decree that significantly complicated the process of obtaining a divorce. “The provisions of Decree 118 should now be brought out and used,” he said.
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LATVIA PLANS TO BAN BUS TRAVEL TO RUSSIA AND BELARUS FROM 2027
Latvia plans a full ban of bus travel to Russia and Belarus starting 2027. The proposed ban would also affect transit routes, Delfi reports. The proposal was prepared by Latvia’s Ministry of Transport and submitted to the government for consideration.
Currently, one regular bus route remains between Latvia and Russia: Ecolines operates daily services. The company’s permit is valid until January 9, and authorities do not intend to extend it. Ecolines has already estimated its annual losses from the closure of routes to Russia and Belarus at around €4 million.
Irregular passenger bus services to Russia and Belarus have been banned in Latvia from November 1, 2025, through October 31, 2026. Authorities intend to extend the ban for another year.
Latvian authorities previously said such measures were necessary because people traveling to Russia could “face recruitment.” At the same time, passengers will still be able to reach Russia via Estonia and Lithuania with transfers.
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KYRGYZSTAN, FOLLOWING KAZAKHSTAN, TIGHTENS RESIDENCY RULES FOR RUSSIANS AMID RUMORS OF MOBILIZATION
The authorities of Kyrgyzstan, one of the countries where countless Russians fled to after the start of the war, will introduce automatic tracking of foreigners’ periods of stay and will use it to monitor compliance with migration rules. Those who remain in the country longer than permitted will be barred from entering again. The decree was signed by Prime Minister Adylbek Kasymaliev.
The initiative will be implemented through the Unified System for Recording External Migration. It records crossings of the state border, registration of foreigners, as well as the issuance of visas, work permits, and residence permits.
Those who violate the permitted period of stay in the republic will be denied re-entry for the period during which they were allowed to remain in the country without a visa. For Russians, this is 90 days within every 180-day period.
Earlier, Kazakhstan tightened its entry rules for foreigners. Since August 25, it has been testing a system of paid electronic permits for citizens of countries that do not require visas, including Russians.
Migration restrictions in Central Asian countries are being introduced amid rumors of preparations for a new mobilization in Russia. According to Western intelligence agencies, the Kremlin may announce it after the September elections to the Russian Government.
ON THAT NOTE, WE END TODAY’S NEWS BROADCAST.
STAY TUNED FOR DAILY UPDATES ON WHAT’S HAPPENING IN RUSSIA.
K
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RUSSIA’S FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT EXCEEDS ANNUAL TARGET BY 53% IN EIGHT MONTHS
Russia’s federal budget deficit reached 5.79 trillion rubles ($68.12 billion) from January through August 2026, the Finance Ministry reported. This is 53% higher than the originally planned deficit for the entire year of 3.78 trillion rubles ($44.47 billion).
In August, the deficit declined compared with July, when it stood at 6.45 trillion rubles ($75.88 billion). Since the beginning of the year, however, it has reached 2.5% of GDP.
Russia’s budget revenues increased by 9.2% year-on-year over the first eight months of the year, reaching 25.9 trillion rubles ($304.71 billion). However, oil and gas revenues fell by 16.7% to 5 trillion rubles ($58.82 billion). Non-oil and gas revenues, by contrast, rose by 18.1% to 20.9 trillion rubles ($245.88 billion).
Expenditures over the same period reached 31.7 trillion rubles ($372.94 billion). The Finance Ministry attributed spending exceeding revenues to the accelerated advance financing of government contracts.
Earlier, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov urged the government to limit budget spending. At the same time, the government authorized the increase of expenditures beyond the originally planned 44 trillion rubles ($517.65 billion) through domestic borrowing.
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THE NUMBER OF RUSSIAN COMPANIES AND SOLE PROPRIETORS WITH OVERDUE LOANS TRIPLES DURING THE WAR
The number of corporate borrowers of Russian banks (companies and sole proprietors) stood at 709,600 as of August 1, more than a quarter of whom had overdue debt, the Central Bank of Russia reported.
Since the start of the war, the number of borrowers with bad debt has tripled, while their share of the total number of borrowers has more than doubled, according to Central Bank data. As of February 1, 2022, 60,900 borrowers, or 13.1%, had overdue loans with Russian banks, compared with 195,700, or 27.6%, as of August 1.
The number and share of borrowers with overdue debt began rising rapidly in the second half of 2024, when the economy began to slow down. Amid the economic crisis, Russian banks have become much more cautious about issuing loans, making refinancing more difficult. As a result, the share of borrowers with overdue debt increased by nearly a third over a year and a half, from 16.2% at the beginning of July 2024 to 23.8% by the end of 2025, and continued to rise this year.
Profitability in the vast majority of industries is significantly below lending rates, said Boris Kopeykin, chief economist at the Institute for the Economics of Growth. According to an estimate by the Stolypin Club, last year only one of 60 industries (tobacco product manufacturing) had a return on assets above the average lending rate, and according to calculations by the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMASF), Russian businesses are devoting a record-high 37% of operating profit to loan payments.
The total amount of overdue business loans stood at 3.2 trillion rubles ($40 billion) as of August 1. According to the Central Bank, the largest amounts of overdue debt are in retail and wholesale trade (623 billion rubles [$7.79 billion]), real estate transactions (570 billion rubles [$7.13 billion]), and manufacturing (498 billion rubles [$6.23 billion]).
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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF RUSSIANS MAY HAVE RECEIVED “MOBILIZATION ORDERS” AT MILITARY ENLISTMENT OFFICES
Russian citizens are increasingly receiving “mobilization orders” when summoned to military enlistment offices, which send notices to men to “clarify information” and update the military registration database.
Several hundred thousand Russians may have received the “order” insert in their military ID, which obliges them to report to an assembly point if mobilization is declared, estimates Timofey Vaskin, head of the legal department at the human rights organization Conscript School.
According to him, military enlistment offices issued mobilization orders in the past as well, both before the war and after it began, but in 2026 this practice has become widespread. “We do not know the exact figures because the information is classified. But judging by reports on social media and the number of inquiries we and our colleagues receive, the increase has been dramatic, by dozens of times,” Vaskin told Deutsche Welle.
The same is indicated by statistics from Russian internet search engines. According to Yandex Wordstat data, the number of searches asking what a “mobilization order” is has increased by more than 800% since the beginning of the year: there were 7,154 in January and 65,048 in August. This is the highest level since September–October 2022, when at least 300,000 Russians were forcibly conscripted to the war in Ukraine.
A summons to a military enlistment office to “clarify information” does not in itself mean that these people will necessarily be mobilized, conscripted, or sent to the front, emphasizes Artem Klyga, head of the legal department of the Conscientious Objectors’ Movement. However, if mobilization begins, it will help the authorities quickly recruit the people they need, he explains.
“This should be viewed as an instruction given to officials to prepare the system for any decision by Putin. And if that decision is mobilization, they are expected to be ready,” Klyga told Deutsche Welle.
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RUSSIAN SENATOR ADVISES YOUNG PEOPLE TO BECOME GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS INSTEAD OF ENTREPRENEURS IF THEY WANT TO MAKE MONEY
Young Russians need to become government officials if they want to make money, said Viktor Fedorov, a lawmaker in the parliament of Russia’s Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) from Putin’s political party United Russia.
“[You need to] enter public service. Because how are you going to make money in business now? Complete stagnation. Shopping centers are closing, retail spaces are closing. Restaurants have shut down. What business?” Fedorov said. He noted that entrepreneurship has become unprofitable because of rising taxes. At the same time, Fedorov is one of the wealthiest lawmakers in Yakutia. Until 2021, he was CEO of the investment company Ilin.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development reported that the economy grew by just 0.3% in the first half of 2026. Compared with the same period last year (1.2%), GDP growth slowed fourfold. In June, according to the ministry’s estimate, the economy accelerated to 1.1%. However, this was not enough to offset the contraction in the first quarter (-0.2%) and stagnation in April–May.
For the year as a whole, the Ministry of Economic Development expects GDP to grow by 0.4%, although it had previously forecast an increase of 1.2%. Thus, the Russian economy has “stalled” after the military boom of 2023–24, when the government allocated a record amount of money to the military since Soviet times.
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RUSSIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADUATES WILL BE OFFERED TRAINING FOR PRISON STAFF POSITIONS
The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of Russia intends to resume secondary vocational education programs that students can enter after finishing ninth grade of school. The initiative comes amid a shortage of personnel in correctional colonies.
The new rules are contained in a draft FSIN order published on Tuesday. It will replace the 2022 document that regulates training only under higher education programs — bachelor’s, specialist, and master’s degrees.
This is already the second FSIN document in recent weeks aimed at launching secondary specialized education (SVE) programs at the service’s educational institutions. The first order was signed on August 28; it approves a new admissions procedure for subordinate educational organizations that train mid-level specialists. The document states that applicants can enter such programs with a certificate of basic general or secondary general education.
The new draft provides that SVE programs will be developed taking into account the requirements for future FSIN employees. Cadets’ practical training will take place at institutions and bodies of the correctional system, while pre-graduation practical training will take place at the institution or body with which the cadet has signed a service contract.
Former analyst at the Moscow FSIN department and former member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission Anna Karetnikova sees several risks in the return of departmental SVE. The first is the spread of problems in departmental higher education to younger cadets. According to Karetnikova, graduates of FSIN educational institutions she has worked with often had weak professional training. “Now there is a risk that very poor education will begin not at a university, but already after ninth grade,” she told independent outlet Agenstvo.
Another risk is early professional deformation, Karetnikova believes. Practical training at penal system institutions will immerse cadets in a closed, militarized system as early as age 16–17, she noted. “The earlier a person prepares themselves for the idea that their future is predetermined, the less likely they are to leave it later,” Karetnikova said.
Training FSIN employees through secondary vocational education programs existed before as well. In the mid-2000s, the service’s system included the Voronezh FSIN College, the Far Eastern FSIN Law College, and the Perm FSIN College.
The return to this model is taking place against the backdrop of an acute personnel shortage in the FSIN. According to service director Arkady Gostev, as of June 1, the staffing shortfall stood at 30%. In March, he said that more than 40% of employees leave before reaching retirement age.
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OPPOSITION CANDIDATE IS REMOVED FROM PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION OVER SLOGAN “FOR A FREE INTERNET WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS”
Alexander Muravyov, candidate to the Russian Government from the country’s only anti-war party Yabloko, was removed from the election over the slogan “For a free internet without restrictions!” in his campaign.
Muravyov became the seventh single-member district candidate from the party to have his registration canceled in recent days, Yabloko’s press service said.
The lawsuit against Muravyov was filed by Yury Parkhomenko, a candidate from the Party of Pensioners. He argued that Muravyov, in a televised campaign video, had “disseminated information contributing to the formation of a negative attitude among voters toward other candidates and parties.” As justification, he cited Muravyov’s publications linking internet blocking to the actions of parliamentary parties — United Russia, the LDPR, and New People.
In addition, Muravyov was accused of copyright infringement for using an unlicensed font in his campaign materials.
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RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LINKS RISE IN CHURCH WEDDINGS TO DISAPPEARANCE OF WESTERN “ANTI-CHURCH HYPNOSIS” AFTER THE START OF THE WAR
Russians have begun getting married in church more often because Western “anti-church propaganda” has lost influence since the start of the war in Ukraine. This explanation was given to RIA Novosti by Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Patriarchal Commission on Family, the Protection of Motherhood and Childhood.
According to Lukyanov, before the war, an “anti-church wave” in Russia was largely “stoked from abroad.” After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, access to some foreign sources of information was restricted, which, in the Russian Orthodox Church representative’s view, contributed to a change in citizens’ attitudes toward the church.
“There have been more church weddings in Russia. This is connected to the fact that the propagandistic anti-church wave was largely stoked from abroad. And when these information channels were closed today because of the special military operation, the ‘anti-church hypnosis’ coming from pro-Western forces disappeared,” Lukyanov said.
At the same time, he provided no statistical data to support his claim. The Russian Orthodox Church does not publish statistics on the number of church weddings.
A week earlier, Lukyanov proposed bringing back Stalin-era methods of combating divorce. Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum on September 2, he called for using provisions of a 1944 Presidium of the Supreme Soviet decree that significantly complicated the process of obtaining a divorce. “The provisions of Decree 118 should now be brought out and used,” he said.
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LATVIA PLANS TO BAN BUS TRAVEL TO RUSSIA AND BELARUS FROM 2027
Latvia plans a full ban of bus travel to Russia and Belarus starting 2027. The proposed ban would also affect transit routes, Delfi reports. The proposal was prepared by Latvia’s Ministry of Transport and submitted to the government for consideration.
Currently, one regular bus route remains between Latvia and Russia: Ecolines operates daily services. The company’s permit is valid until January 9, and authorities do not intend to extend it. Ecolines has already estimated its annual losses from the closure of routes to Russia and Belarus at around €4 million.
Irregular passenger bus services to Russia and Belarus have been banned in Latvia from November 1, 2025, through October 31, 2026. Authorities intend to extend the ban for another year.
Latvian authorities previously said such measures were necessary because people traveling to Russia could “face recruitment.” At the same time, passengers will still be able to reach Russia via Estonia and Lithuania with transfers.
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KYRGYZSTAN, FOLLOWING KAZAKHSTAN, TIGHTENS RESIDENCY RULES FOR RUSSIANS AMID RUMORS OF MOBILIZATION
The authorities of Kyrgyzstan, one of the countries where countless Russians fled to after the start of the war, will introduce automatic tracking of foreigners’ periods of stay and will use it to monitor compliance with migration rules. Those who remain in the country longer than permitted will be barred from entering again. The decree was signed by Prime Minister Adylbek Kasymaliev.
The initiative will be implemented through the Unified System for Recording External Migration. It records crossings of the state border, registration of foreigners, as well as the issuance of visas, work permits, and residence permits.
Those who violate the permitted period of stay in the republic will be denied re-entry for the period during which they were allowed to remain in the country without a visa. For Russians, this is 90 days within every 180-day period.
Earlier, Kazakhstan tightened its entry rules for foreigners. Since August 25, it has been testing a system of paid electronic permits for citizens of countries that do not require visas, including Russians.
Migration restrictions in Central Asian countries are being introduced amid rumors of preparations for a new mobilization in Russia. According to Western intelligence agencies, the Kremlin may announce it after the September elections to the Russian Government.
ON THAT NOTE, WE END TODAY’S NEWS BROADCAST.
STAY TUNED FOR DAILY UPDATES ON WHAT’S HAPPENING IN RUSSIA.
K
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