Regional and municipal budget planning and execution documents, reports and hearings are a treasure trove of information, essential to understand the policy pillars of the regime - if you have the patience to go through them. And @jakluge.de definitely does.

Janis Kluge

I analyzed dozens of reports from Russian municipalities and found a lot of fascinating insights about how Russian recruitment actually works. At the core, the recruitment machine is a multilayered system of quotas, going all the way from the Kremlin down to the smallest village.