Popular Politics channel host Dmitry Nizovtsev phoned the son of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Alexei, on the air, introduced himself as a military commissar and asked if he was ready to come to the military registration and enlistment office to sign up as a volunteer for the war.
“Can you go to the front, well, of course, not to the front — I’m not intimidating you with anything, but come and sign up so that you can be in our reserve and be mobilized in the future?” He asked Nizovtsev at 23-year-old Alexei. Mishustin's son said that he was studying for a master's program and that he had «no desire to fight» «yet».
To one more clarifying question from the host about the appearance in the military registration and enlistment office, Aleksey replied that he “is not yet necessary” to sign up as a volunteer, since he is “engaged in his education.” Open Media wrote in 2020 that Mishustin's two eldest sons, Alexei and Alexander, are studying at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
On the same air, Nizovtsev called the son of Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, Nikolai, who, when asked to appear for a medical examination at the military registration and enlistment office, replied that «he would resolve this issue at a different level.» His father told Rise that Nikolai's conversation with Alexei Navalny's supporters was «cut out of the semantic part.»
Today, President Vladimir Putin announced the «partial mobilization» of Russians who are in the reserve. The Ministry of Defense reported that it will affect 300,000 people.
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