Posted 12/3/2023, 10:29:24 AM
Russia Acts to Placate Soldiers' Wives Amid Protest Threats
- Russian authorities trying to prevent soldiers' wives from protesting by speeding up salary payments to them
- Wives concerned more about paychecks than husbands returning from war frontlines
- Rare public protest by soldiers' wives held in Moscow on November 7 before being broken up
- Officials instructed to "persuade, promise, pay" wives to prevent further protests
- Kremlin concerned wives and mothers can influence public opinion and spark anti-war movement