– The amount of awards “IO” deservedly receives is compensation for another event. I prefer to be rewarded by the Academy than any other group. I will not say what, because I only have obscene words on my lips – said Jerzy Skolimowski to the participants of the Eagles gala. He was connecting to Los Angeles.
Russian President Putin is trying by all means to increase his troops. After recruiting campaigns in prisons, he is now looking for new ways to recruit soldiers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is apparently launching a new attempt to recruit additional soldiers for his war of aggression once morest Ukraine. Recruitment is said to be on a voluntary basis – but in questionable locations, according to an update from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Accordingly, a Moscow psychiatrist is currently calling on men who are at risk of suicide to report for military service. It wouldn’t be the first time that Putin has recruited military volunteers from among the mentally ill. According to media reports, a psychiatric clinic in Saint Petersburg last year called on its patients to join volunteer battalions.
Russian region recruits orphans
On Monday, the Russian Far East region of Amur addressed orphaned young people: Anyone who took part in the war would be given an apartment, they said. “Among the orphans, priority is currently being given to those people who are or have been participating in the special military operation,” said the region’s social affairs minister, Natalia Kiselyova, according to a press release from the region’s administration. Read more regarding it here.
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According to the ISW, calls to join the units of the Wagner mercenary group are now increasing, especially in ultra-nationalist social networks in Russia. In the past, the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is said to have recruited his fighters in prisons. Here you can read more regarding it.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials are reporting cases in which Russian occupation officials registered teenage boys born in 2006 for military service in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk.
Recruitment campaigns on Telegram and in mobile tents
According to reports from the Ukrainian General Staff, the military recruitment centers in the occupied Donetsk region are once more receiving instructions to check the identity documents of reserve officers under the age of 65 and soldiers, non-commissioned officers and sergeants under the age of 50.
In several Russian Telegram channels, the ISW also observes how often it is advertised to join existing volunteer battalions. In addition, Russian officials have set up mobile recruitment centers in some places to promote volunteer military service.
Parallels to summer 2022
In measures like these, the ISW sees clear parallels to recruitment campaigns that were already aimed at volunteers between the end of May 2022 and September 2022. Here, too, there were mobile recruitment centers and recruitment calls via Telegram.
At that time, however, the campaigns were largely unsuccessful. As a result, Putin ordered the first partial mobilization throughout Russia in September 2022 – this also affected reservists who did not want to volunteer.
worry regarding stability
According to the ISW, the renewed appeal by volunteers now indicates that the Kremlin does not have enough reserves left to continue its offensive following the Battle of Bakhmut. In the city in eastern Ukraine, Russian Wagner mercenaries and the Ukrainian military have been fighting a bitter battle for months; a victory there is an important symbol for both sides. Read more regarding the latest military developments at the front here.
Putin, on the other hand, wants to avoid forced conscription because he is concerned regarding the stability of his regime. The partial mobilization in the fall had already led to resistance from the Russian population. According to the ISW, Putin therefore hopes that the recruitment of volunteers will be sufficient.
However, citing Russian veterans and military bloggers, the ISW states that Russia cannot achieve its goals without large-scale mobilization. It is therefore assumed that the Kremlin will not start another wave of mobilization until summer 2023 at the earliest.
The author of Gomorrah (2007) will make its film debut with the adaptation of its graphic novel I’m still alive.
In 2021, Roberto Saviano recounted his life in the graphic novel I am still alive. Always placed under police surveillance, the Italian writer will adapt this autobiographical story to the cinema, in the form of an animated film. Written with Neapolitan artist Alessandro Rak, the script for the feature film will be presented this week at the Cartoon Movie pitching forum in Bordeaux. ” This is the story of a 26-year-old young man, sentenced to death by a criminal organization, a boy who grew up in a land where the Mafia killed 4000 people in a few years. said Roberto Saviano regarding his film. To illustrate his story, the author had at the time appealed to Asa Hanuka, responsible for certain sequences on the animated film Waltz with Bashir in 2008.
A life shattered by the Mafia
Born in 1979 in Naples, Roberto Saviano became a journalist and collaborated with several left-wing Italian newspapers. In 2006, his investigative book Gomorrah (Gallimard) is a blast that attacks the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, head-on. In his book, Saviano reveals a large amount of information on the criminal organization, between trafficking and public executions. His greatest success nevertheless signs his death warrant, the writer being immediately threatened with assassination and placed under police protection some time following the release of the book. His life is told in I’m still alivethe author still continuing to denounce Italian crime syndicates.
Translated into nearly 42 languages, Gomorrah was first adapted to the theater, then to the cinema by Matthew Garrone in 2008. Completed in 2021, the series Gomorrah is also adapted from Saviano’s book and has met with great success throughout its five seasons.
The Delhaize group announced this morning, on the occasion of an extraordinary works council, that it intends to convert all of its 128 supermarkets which are currently under its own management into independent stores. Ultimately, these supermarkets will therefore be governed by the same rules as the 636 independent stores affiliated with Delhaize under different brands (AD Delhaize, Proxy Delhaize and Shop & Go).
“The objective of this change is to bring together all Delhaize stores under one model in order to stimulate the growth of these 128 supermarkets“, explains the management of the company, adding that it is regarding “the only option to continue investing in a sustainable future for Delhaize.”
To back up this approach, the company’s management explains that over the past few years, affiliated independent stores “have seen their market share grow steadily“while,” she said, “despite the many initiatives and investments made in self-managed supermarkets, they have seen their profitability and market share decline“.
Impact on employment
In this same press release, the management of the company specifies that this transformation will not have “no impact on employment for the employees of these supermarkets because all the staff will be transferred to the new independent operators (…) They also keep their salary and working conditions.”
On the other hand, further specifies the management, “the gradual transition from self-managed supermarkets to independent stores will lead to a gradual reduction in the number of functions within the head office“.
Cascading work stoppages
The management’s announcement shocked the staff of the supermarkets affected by this change in status. This morning, a whole series of stores closed their doors. Union slogan: “We’re closing!”.
At 10 a.m., there were 84 stores closed out of the 128 that will change status.
The trade unions are furious: “It’s a real scandalprotests Myriam Delmée, president of Setca, because that implies for the personnel degradation of the working conditions of approximately 25%. It implies that there will be no more negotiations [sociales] in the future in these stores, since there is no collective bargaining possible in this model of store [gérés par des franchisés]. The management’s behavior today was a real scandal since they didn’t even try to establish any dialogue with us today, they just gave information before leaving the room. It is a real contempt for the 9000 workers who are affected by this announcement“.