Russia’s Defense Ministry Wants To Change The Law To Permit Drafting Prisoners – Analysis

(RFE/RL's North.Realities) -- By the time Russian Defense Ministry recruiters arrived at penitentiary IK-29 in the far northern region of Arkhangelsk in April, Artyom Bunyatov had already turned down two previous pitches by mercenary group representatives urging him to serve on the front lines in Ukraine in exchange for his...