Russia, marriages boom after the announcement of the mobilization. Independent media: "492 thousand recruited"

A veritable "

in Russia, which began after the announcement of the partial mobilization ordered by President Putin, to escape recruitment.

This was stated by an independent Russian media, which meticulously analyzed the (public) registers of the registry offices by crossing the regional data with those of the population census, a survey from which it would also emerge that

: "At

may have been mobilized

by October 15."

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According to Russian legislation, receiving a "summons" (call to arms)

, and the information agency "Mediazone" (Russian independent media, founded by former Pussy Riot Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova), he would calculate the "number of Russian men enlisted in the war, on the basis of data on the increase in the number of marriages after the announcement of the mobilization".

Mediazone: "

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Russian enlisted men greet their relatives in a recruiting office during the partial Russian military mobilization, in St. Petersburg, Russia

In total, in

- for which journalists had accurate data - 31,000 couples were regularized, according to the accelerated procedure. 

For each of the regions with known data on marriages, Mediazone calculated the percentage of mobilization, and correlated it with data on the

The calculations would have shown that "in these regions

by mid-October". 

Based on this figure, reporters from the opposition agency made an estimate for recruitments even in regions that did not provide data, calculating an "average mobilization rate of 1.56%" (valid for official government statistics): and therefore we arrive at a total of 492 thousand people sent to the front. 

In Buryatia (Russia) marriages multiplied by 8 

"The increase in the number of marriages after the announcement of the mobilization is clearly visible in the example of Buryatia - continues Mediazone in the report - the only Russian region where the registry office public updates the statistics every day: from 1 September to 21 September there was an average of

, after 21 September (the day of the announcement of the mobilization)

".