Paul Goble
Staunton, June 2 – Forty-three percent of Russian troops who’ve been demobilized so far after service in Putin’s war in Ukraine haven’t been able to find jobs on their return, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova says, promising that the Russian government do what is necessary to address this situation.
Given that the flow of returnees is only beginning to grow, that creates a potentially explosive situation given that such unemployed veterans are more likely than those with jobs to suffer from various pathologies and to become seedbed for crime and political radicalization (t.me/government_rus/21298 and moscowtimes.ru/2025/06/02/pochti-polovina-demobilizovannih-uchastnikov-voini-v-ukraine-ne-smogli-naiti-rabotu-a165063).
Moscow has directed the federal subjects to establish quotas for the hiring of veterans. Some have done so, but the problems are small and officials in others say the veterans often aren’t prepared professionally or psychologically for peacetime work (moscowtimes.ru/2025/05/13/kreml-poruchil-regionam-podgotovit-tisyachi-uchastnikov-voini-dlya-gossluzhbi-a163206, idelreal.org/a/v-bashkortostane-mogut-vvesti-kvoty-dlya-trudoustroystva-vernuvshihsya-s-voyny-soldat/33433710.html and moscowtimes.ru/2025/03/25/ombudsmen-v-tatarstane-zayavila-chto-vernuvshiesya-s-fronta-bivshie-zaklyuchennie-ne-hotyat-rabotat-a159014).
Unless Moscow finds a way to solve this problem, Russia is likely to face even bigger problems when the veterans return in large numbers than it has suffered from the conflict so far (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/veterans-returning-from-ukraine-war.html, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/men-returning-from-putins-war-in.html and jamestown.org/program/russian-armys-degradation-in-ukraine-makes-returning-veterans-even-greater-threat/).
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