Paul Goble
Staunton, April 8 – In yet another sign of how difficult it is going to be to reintegrate veterans of Putin’s war in Ukraine into the Russian economy, firms across the country are refusing to hire enough veterans to meet Moscow-set quotas; and ten regions so far have responded by announcing plans to impose fines on companies that don’t hire enough veterans.
Such measures are now at the stage of discussion but many appear to be near passage in many of the regions including Moscow, predominantly ethnic Russian regions and krays and in the Altai and Tatarstan republics (ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/08/10-i-rossiiskii-region-nachnet-shtrafovat-biznes-za-otkaz-brat-na-rabotu-uchastnikov-svo-a192109).
Most of these proposed laws require firms with more than 100 employees to reserve up to two percent of their vacancies for veterans of the war in Ukraine. That such legislation is necessary reflects the fact that many firms don’t want to take these veterans on, with the push to do so coming not from the center but the regions.
That is presumably because the Kremlin does not want to advertise either resistance to such measures, resistance that undercuts its line about broad support for the war and for helping veterans, and so thus sets the quotas but then expects the federal subjects to take the actions necessary to try to meet them.
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