📈 Google Trends showed a spike in search for Aviasales – Russia's preeminent website for flight bookings – after Putin's order, with searches increasing by 400%
According to reporters in Russia, the site has a setting enabling people to search for flights “wherever I can go”.
Some routes with stopovers, including those from Moscow to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, were also unavailable, and the cheapest flights from Russia’s capital to Dubai were costing more than 300,000 roubles – about five times the average monthly wage.Latvia, which has a border with Russia, confirmed shortly after the announcement that it would not be offering refuge to Russians fleeing from the mobilisation. Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics cited security reasons for the decision.
“Vladimir Putin has just announced a partial mobilisation in Russia. This means that thousands of Russian men – our fathers, brothers and husbands – will be thrown into the meat grinder of war,” Vesna“What will they die for? Why will mothers and children shed tears? For Putin’s palace?” It came after Russia’s parliament approved a bill on Tuesday to toughen punishments for desertion, damage to military property and insubordination if committed during military mobilisation or combat situations.
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