kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: Some #Russia military channels noticed an important legal loophole - soldiers ...
Some #Russia military channels noticed an important legal loophole - soldiers fighting in #Kursk oblast’ are not legally granted a status of “veteran of special military operation (SVO)”… because legally, there’s no SVO in Kursk oblast’. One side of that is the usual mess of Russian lawmakers who on one hand very much want to pretend they’re, well, making proper law, but then they want to be able to flexibly declare legal status of events whenever and whenever they like, and then change it day to day, depending on Kremlin’s current mood.
But the other side is that Duma is currently fulfilling other political orders from Kremlin, such as “strengthening the conservative values”. This autumn these happen to be the cultural war on two things you likely never heard about to be discussed in any parliament - the ideologies of “child-free” and “quadrobics”.
Russian elites can’t deny catastrophic demographic collapse of Russia, but they have to explain it somehow. They can’t publicly explain it by, well, the most obvious factors such as thousands of men being killed and mutilated on the war (because Russia is not at “war” in the legal sense) or miserable socio-economic conditions caused by the state budget being drained to the war.
But they can explain it by hostile ideologies. Of course, child-free is no “ideology” or even “movement”, it’s a choice caused by plenty of factors that in addition does change over time. “Quadrobics” is even more ridiculous, as it’s literally a play where children or teenagers pretend to be horses or any other animals, and run on all fours. Of all teenager games, I guess that’s better than, say, drinking in a park or sniffing glue, and probably better than playing “Sims” or CS. Russian lawmakers made a whole thing out of it, which starts pompously from “dehumanization” and ends, I guess, somewhere around “rotting bourgeoisie”.
So, those Russian military channels did indeed notice this unusual activity of Duma in the sphere of these rather exotic topics and they seem to be slightly annoyed…
But the other side is that Duma is currently fulfilling other political orders from Kremlin, such as “strengthening the conservative values”. This autumn these happen to be the cultural war on two things you likely never heard about to be discussed in any parliament - the ideologies of “child-free” and “quadrobics”.
Russian elites can’t deny catastrophic demographic collapse of Russia, but they have to explain it somehow. They can’t publicly explain it by, well, the most obvious factors such as thousands of men being killed and mutilated on the war (because Russia is not at “war” in the legal sense) or miserable socio-economic conditions caused by the state budget being drained to the war.
But they can explain it by hostile ideologies. Of course, child-free is no “ideology” or even “movement”, it’s a choice caused by plenty of factors that in addition does change over time. “Quadrobics” is even more ridiculous, as it’s literally a play where children or teenagers pretend to be horses or any other animals, and run on all fours. Of all teenager games, I guess that’s better than, say, drinking in a park or sniffing glue, and probably better than playing “Sims” or CS. Russian lawmakers made a whole thing out of it, which starts pompously from “dehumanization” and ends, I guess, somewhere around “rotting bourgeoisie”.
So, those Russian military channels did indeed notice this unusual activity of Duma in the sphere of these rather exotic topics and they seem to be slightly annoyed…