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[00:00:22] and Yandex is still burning, you can't call a taxi, you can't
[00:00:25] place a delivery, drones hit Yandex in Russia, service failure
[00:00:29] in...
[00:00:33] Hello, this is Central Asia news, my name is Monas Ajigitov,
[00:00:36] we tell you about the main events of the region. After a series of drone
[00:00:40] attacks on Yandex data centers in Russia, service disruptions
[00:00:43] went far beyond the country. Problems
[00:00:47] were recorded in at least Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
[00:00:49] Uzbekistan, Belarus and Armenia. The consequences
[00:00:53] were especially noticeable for taxi and delivery services in Kazakhstan,
[00:00:56] users and drivers, couriers faced problems. intended for storing personal data of users from
[00:01:14] Kazakhstan are located on the territory of the country and operate normally, however,
[00:01:18] this does not mean that the entire platform functions autonomously, separate
[00:01:22] components necessary for providing taxi and delivery services
[00:01:25] are located outside
[00:01:26] Kazakhstan.
[00:01:29] Some services were unavailable, problems affected
[00:01:33] passengers, couriers, drivers, restaurants and stores. In Armenia and
[00:01:37] Belarus, users could not order a taxi or use navigation
[00:01:41] maps. In 4 days, drones attacked three data centers
[00:01:44] of the company in Ryazan, Kaluga and Vladimir regions. A day before
[00:01:48] the last strike, Yandex updated its user agreement and specifically
[00:01:52] included UAV attacks, missile strikes, shelling, explosions in
[00:01:56] the list of circumstances of force majeure.
[00:02:01] Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan condemned the attacks by Yemeni Houthis
[00:02:04] on King Khalid International Airport in the capital of Saudi
[00:02:08] Arabia. Astana called the strikes on civilian
[00:02:11] infrastructure unacceptable and violating international
[00:02:15] law, Tashkent a serious violation and called for an immediate
[00:02:18] cessation of attacks. Official Bishkek also stated that such
[00:02:22] actions lead to a dangerous escalation of the situation. I note that as a result
[00:02:25] of the strike on October 10, at least 12 people died, and about
[00:02:29] 300 more were injured, among the injured were two citizens
[00:02:33] of Uzbekistan, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, they received
[00:02:36] minor injuries, they were given aid and after examination
[00:02:39] were discharged from the hospital. About twenty more Uzbeks who were at
[00:02:43] the airport were not injured. The day before, Riyadh airport
[00:02:46] was subjected to a new attack. There was a fire in the terminals. According to the authorities
[00:02:50] of Saudi Arabia, one person died, at least 11
[00:02:54] were injured. The attacks disrupted air traffic throughout
[00:02:57] the region. Airlines canceled and redirected their flights, and
[00:03:00] passengers faced delays and schedule disruptions.
[00:03:04] I note that the conflict between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia has been going on since
[00:03:07] 2014. The Houthis are a pro-Iranian armed
[00:03:11] movement that controls a significant part of Yemen and
[00:03:14] seeks recognition of its government in Sanaa. Saudi
[00:03:17] Arabia has supported the internationally recognized and views
[00:03:21] government of Yemen since 2015 the Houthis as a threat to its
[00:03:24] security.
[00:03:28] Human rights activist Bahrom Khamroev, who is serving a sentence in the Russian penal colony
[00:03:31] "Polar Owl", was again placed in a cell-type
[00:03:34] facility after the punishment isolator, his wife Zukhra Khamroeva reported this
[00:03:38] in her latest social media post, according to
[00:03:42] her, her husband again held a solo picket in September
[00:03:45] in support of another political prisoner, mathematician
[00:03:48] Azat Meftakhov, who, according to her data, was also subjected to
[00:03:51] psychological and physical violence in "Polar Owl". According to
[00:03:55] her, Khamroev is held incommunicado, deprived of contact with the outside
[00:03:58] world and is being subjected to.
[00:04:30] The repeat parcel was accepted. Khamroev suffered a stroke, suffers
[00:04:33] from diabetes and hypertension. In August, it became known that he was stripped
[00:04:37] of his Russian citizenship back in April 2025,
[00:04:41] but the document reached him only a year later. Now, according
[00:04:44] to his wife, the lawyer is challenging in court the transfer of the human rights activist to
[00:04:48] "Polar Owl" and the deprivation of citizenship. Bakhrom
[00:04:52] Khamroev, an Uzbek-Russian human rights activist, an employee
[00:04:55] of Memorial, a defender of the rights of migrants. He was arrested
[00:04:58] on February 24.
[00:05:12] activities. Human rights activists state that the conditions of detention
[00:05:15] of the political prisoner can be qualified as
[00:05:18] torture.
[00:05:21] The administration of US President Donald Trump imposed sanctions against
[00:05:25] the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Earlier, it had issued
[00:05:28] an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. Washington accuses the court of unjustified
[00:05:32] persecution of American citizens and Israelis. This is stated in
[00:05:36] the statement of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Restrictions prohibit
[00:05:40] transactions with the ICC.
[00:05:46] President Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court
[00:05:50] to prosecute Americans. That's why today the United States
[00:05:53] is imposing sanctions against the International Criminal Court. We
[00:05:57] will prohibit financial transactions with this out-of-control court,
[00:06:00] deprive it of resources, undermine its ability
[00:06:03] to function. UN Secretary General
[00:06:06] Antonio Guterres stated that Washington's decision causes serious
[00:06:10] damage to collective efforts in the field of international criminal
[00:06:13] justice. I note that Tajikistan is considering
[00:06:16] the possibility of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court. In
[00:06:20] September, the lower house of the republic's parliament approved a draft
[00:06:23] resolution on the termination of the Rome
[00:06:26] Statute. This happened after Dushanbe
[00:06:30] refused to arrest Vladimir Putin during his visit in October
[00:06:33] 2025. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for
[00:06:37] the Russian president in March twenty-third, accusing
[00:06:40] him of war crimes related to the illegal deportation and
[00:06:44] transfer of Ukrainian
[00:06:45] children.
[00:06:49] Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov criticized
[00:06:52] men who take second families, leaving their first wives with
[00:06:55] children without housing or means of subsistence. He stated this at
[00:06:59] a meeting with residents of Batken region. A resident
[00:07:02] of Alelek named Gulzata told the president that after
[00:07:06] her husband secretly married another 11 years
[00:07:09] ago, conflicts began in the family.
[00:07:15] In 2022, she filed for divorce and property division, but according to her, her husband accused her of forging a marriage
[00:07:19] certificate and a criminal case was opened against
[00:07:22] her.
[00:07:26] How can you abandon three children and go to another woman, leaving
[00:07:29] them nothing? Where is justice? Investigate
[00:07:32] objectively, help Gulzad. It turns out he relies on his
[00:07:36] money and solves all problems. If a man takes a second wife,
[00:07:40] let him first leave the house to his first wife and children, provide for
[00:07:43] them and only then leave, men have also
[00:07:46] become corrupted. I note that, according to the State Statistics Committee of Kyrgyzstan,
[00:07:49] between 12,000 and 15,000 divorces are registered annually
[00:07:53] in the country. Polygamy is prohibited in the country, but some men
[00:07:57] start second families without dissolving their first
[00:07:59] marriage.
[00:08:03] That's all for today, follow the main events of the region with
[00:08:07] us on our website azatica.org on
[00:08:10] social networks, share the issue and send us your stories, have
[00:08:13] a good day everyone, see you tomorrow,
[00:08:27] right now, at this moment you hear, we are hiding
[00:08:30] constantly, you won't answer me this
[00:08:32] question,
[00:08:36] hides his face so I can see that he is not threatening me, suffered the most,
[00:08:40] this connection between home
[00:08:43] and the front line, it is very important for the Ukrainian military. Zana Stepanenko, Marok Gaiduk, current
[00:08:47] time, USA.
[00:08:51] A small country, with resources, the beauty of mountains,
[00:08:54] seas, sun, but the citizens here so confidently
[00:08:57] dream of a green energy future,
[00:09:01] that the government is changing laws. How is this
[00:09:04] possible? And for you, electricity is now
[00:09:08] completely
[00:09:08] free.
[00:09:30] In American politics, there is a rule that almost never fails. Two
[00:09:34] years after a presidential election, his party loses seats in Congress. This
[00:09:38] happened with Democrats and with Republicans, 18
[00:09:41] out of twenty times. Now both chambers of Congress are controlled by Republicans,
[00:09:44] the executive branch too, most Supreme Court judges were appointed
[00:09:48] by Republican presidents. Every two years, exactly in the middle
[00:09:51] of a presidential term, elections are held in America, which are called
[00:09:54] midterm elections. The entire Congress, that is, the American
[00:09:57] parliament, the lower house entirely - that's 435
[00:10:01] people, and a third of the upper house - the Senate - that's 35
[00:10:04] seats. Plus governors in thirty-six
[00:10:06] states.
[00:10:12] The American system is designed so that no single election changes everything at once.
[00:10:16] The House reflects the mood of today. The Senate is averaged over
[00:10:20] 6 years. The President is his majority at the time of the election. I
[00:10:23] spoke with three experts.
[00:11:31] in 2024 correctly predicted Donald Trump's victory, including the lead in
[00:11:34] the popular vote. But there are 5 months left,
[00:11:38] public opinion may shift slightly in favor of the president.
[00:11:41] Taxes, migrants, healthcare, abortions, on these topics in America everything
[00:11:45] is predictable. Democrats vote one way, Republicans another. The party
[00:11:49] line works almost without
[00:11:50] a hitch.
[00:11:53] But if the party changes.
[00:12:35] US experts on transatlantic relations and
[00:12:38] Russia, so even if Democrats do well, which
[00:12:41] I expect, there will be increased control over domestic policy, but I don't
[00:12:45] see any serious influence on foreign policy. But let's look at these
[00:12:49] elections as a whole, not just at the consequences, but at what could
[00:12:52] happen before them, for example, there might be...
[00:13:55] and minimal, the president has enormous power to do anything
[00:13:58] he wants, I expect Trump to feel even
[00:14:01] less constrained, but almost does not mean entirely, here's what
[00:14:05] Congress can still do: first, money, how much
[00:14:08] to allocate to Ukraine is decided by Congress, in total Washington approved
[00:14:12] about 195 billion dollars, and Congress not only
[00:14:15] gives the amount, it can specify what it can be spent on and what
[00:14:19] it cannot. Second, sanctions, those enacted by law,
[00:14:22] are much harder for the president to cancel than his own. The Senate approves
[00:14:26] international treaties and all ambassadors, in
[00:14:28] 2023 Congress passed a rule that the president cannot
[00:14:32] withdraw the US from NATO without the consent of the Senate or the adoption
[00:14:35] of a separate law. Congress can vote to end a military
[00:14:39] operation or block a major arms deal. On June 3, the House
[00:14:42] voted for the first time to end hostilities against
[00:14:45] Iran.
[00:14:53] The Iranian war became.
[00:15:37] if the president achieves a verifiable end to the nuclear program and
[00:15:41] the export of enriched uranium, this will support
[00:15:44] the president. But first of all, as experts say, Americans look at
[00:15:47] their wallet before ticking the box on
[00:15:49] the ballot.
[00:15:52] We see very clearly, prices are at the very top of the American
[00:15:55] list, and it was like that throughout Trump's term and throughout
[00:15:58] Biden's term. Wherever I go, people come up to me, he promised to lower
[00:16:02] prices, mine only grew, every week I pay more for groceries,
[00:16:06] that's what people think.
[00:16:08] Second factor: Americans are strongly against the war in Iran, that's what's
[00:16:11] important, throughout the entire era of polls, starting from the thirties, there was no war
[00:16:15] so unpopular from the very beginning. Next, drastic actions
[00:16:19] on immigration became unpopular, not border protection itself, but
[00:16:23] harsh raids. Now about the election campaign itself, it turned out to be
[00:16:26] unlike anything else, for the first time in over 100 years, American states
[00:16:30] massively redrew electoral district boundaries in the middle of the decade,
[00:16:34] somewhere this was done in favor of Democrats, somewhere in favor of Republicans.
[00:16:39] Without redrawing districts in the middle of the decade, Republicans
[00:16:42] would have 100% lost the House. Experts agreed
[00:16:45] that the new Congress can influence foreign policy, but
[00:16:49] not much, the president decides. The question is what does
[00:16:52] Trump want?
[00:16:55] He still wants to go down in history as a peacemaker, at the top of his agenda
[00:16:59] now is the war in Ukraine, here is a message to the Russian leadership: this is
[00:17:03] the best opportunity Russia has to end this war.
[00:17:06] Regulars.
[00:17:18] but so far there are no signs that Moscow has heard this, but the results of the November elections in the US will be closely watched in Russia and in
[00:17:21] Ukraine.
[00:17:25] We are moving
[00:17:27] on.
[00:18:32] looked into the camera, went, looked into the
[00:18:35] camera, this is my friend, and this is my friend,
[00:18:39] Katya, at war her name is Zoya, oh, how
[00:18:42] scary, guys
[00:18:45] tanks, I jumped so
[00:18:48] gracefully, right now,
[00:18:51] already,
[00:18:54] well, we are doing our part, somehow we are trying, and the rest of the
[00:18:57] people, Katya, tell me, what is the most
[00:19:01] important thing in life, what do you think, life,
[00:19:04] be careful,
[00:19:16] Meanwhile, in Russia, a new market for personal data
[00:19:19] has emerged. Now in Russia, databases of potential contractors
[00:19:22] for the war against Ukraine are being collected. Marketing
[00:19:26] agencies sell such data to recruiters, the
[00:19:29] Verstka publication reported in its new
[00:19:33] material. Due to high competition
[00:19:36] and oversaturation on VKontakte, Avito and Telegram,
[00:19:39] recruiters in search of new contractors for military service
[00:19:42] began buying up databases of phone numbers, Verstka writes.
[00:19:46] These databases include men who visited
[00:19:49] websites, the so-called SVO, as Russia calls
[00:19:52] the war against Ukraine, or applied to microfinance
[00:19:56] organizations, or, for example, were on debtor lists.
[00:19:59] Marketing agencies collect contacts and put them up for
[00:20:02] sale to military recruiters. Since 2022,
[00:20:06] recruiting for the war in Russia has become another
[00:20:09] HR direction, where marketers, targetologists, and
[00:20:12] other specialists who are engaged in expanding client
[00:20:16] databases come to work. In conversations with recruiters, marketers call potential
[00:20:19] contractors "clients who are already looking for your
[00:20:23] product and waiting for your call," this quote. Well, the
[00:20:26] field itself is called one of the most complex niches
[00:20:29] of internet marketing. Potential clients, that is, men
[00:20:32] for deployment to the war against Ukraine, are called by call center
[00:20:36] operators, asking them if
[00:20:39] they are considering service in the SVO,
[00:20:42] and if the person answers yes,
[00:20:46] then their data gets into databases that are then sold to recruiters.
[00:20:50] Verstka found out these prices: 800 thousand
[00:20:53] rubles for a database of 500 mobile phones of men who were previously
[00:20:56] interviewed by call center operators, well, the sums that
[00:21:00] a recruiter can earn are much larger, for example, for
[00:21:03] attracting citizens to conclude a contract for military service, regions usually
[00:21:07] pay, for example, in the Ulyanovsk region this spring
[00:21:10] the regional government paid for each recruited person
[00:21:14] 200,000 rubles, which is about 2,400 dollars, and
[00:21:17] from one of the court cases in the Nizhny Novgorod region, it became known that one of
[00:21:21] the recruiters demanded from one of the state non-profit organizations a payment
[00:21:25] of 590,000 rubles. This is about
[00:21:28] 7.0 dollars for each of the 42 recruited
[00:21:32] men, the court won. Now on our air is Anna
[00:21:35] Ryshkova, a journalist for Verstka. Anna, welcome.
[00:21:38] Good afternoon. So it turns out that recruiting for the war in Russia is
[00:21:42] now a whole industry, how does it work? Well, it seems
[00:21:46] to be so, indeed, this industry
[00:21:49] involves a variety of professionals,
[00:21:52] that is, HR specialists, people who used to offer
[00:21:56] vacancies in completely different fields, these are
[00:21:59] targetologists and marketers and, in general,
[00:22:03] operators who, yes, must quickly call
[00:22:06] candidates, well, from what we see now,
[00:22:09] there are indeed many private recruiters who
[00:22:13] work either within agencies or
[00:22:16] independently conclude, for example, contracts.
[00:22:20] with recruitment centers for service, for each
[00:22:24] recruited candidate they
[00:22:27] receive a fee, the rates are very different, as you
[00:22:31] mentioned, from 150 thousand
[00:22:33] to 300,000 or 400 thousand can
[00:22:37] be received, well, that is, if you conditionally bought a database
[00:22:40] of people who are potentially
[00:22:43] suitable, whose profile matches the profile
[00:22:46] of a contractor, it pays off many times over. I wanted to ask about
[00:22:50] call centers, which call men, what kind of
[00:22:54] companies are they? We asked this question to several
[00:22:56] recruiters, they told us that
[00:22:59] it depends on the company's profile, that is, these can be marketing
[00:23:03] agencies that, for example, just
[00:23:07] call candidates for work, for
[00:23:09] rotational work, yes, but
[00:23:13] some similar agencies, given
[00:23:16] the demand, as it were, reorient themselves
[00:23:20] more often, taking as clients
[00:23:23] those recruiters who are trying to attract people to contract
[00:23:27] service, then yes, operators appear
[00:23:30] who specifically deal with calling
[00:23:34] candidates for service, that is, it's their
[00:23:37] specialization, they previously agree with recruiters
[00:23:41] on the scripts for these calls, yes, that is, the recruiter
[00:23:44] can express some wishes, that is, what specific
[00:23:48] questions need to be asked to the
[00:23:51] candidate when the operator calls, but most often these are
[00:23:54] questions related to possible diagnoses,
[00:23:58] criminal records, and whether the
[00:24:01] person expressed a desire or
[00:24:05] hesitates, but nevertheless had the
[00:24:09] thought of signing a contract, that is,
[00:24:12] well, we can conclude that this is conditionally a portrait of some
[00:24:15] people who are either socially unprotected or in
[00:24:19] some difficult financial situation, it happens
[00:24:22] differently, that is, those databases of numbers that we
[00:24:26] wrote about, these are specifically people who
[00:24:29] very recently, literally it can be that
[00:24:32] this morning or yesterday evening visited
[00:24:36] websites dedicated to contract service, yes,
[00:24:39] after that these databases are parsed, transmitted to
[00:24:43] recruiters, and the recruiter must quickly
[00:24:46] react and call the candidate as soon as possible,
[00:24:50] because it happens that these databases
[00:24:53] are resold to several recruiters at once, yes, then such a
[00:24:57] struggle for these men begins, but our
[00:25:00] interlocutors said that there are different databases on the market, including
[00:25:04] debtor databases or databases of men
[00:25:07] who applied to microfinance organizations?
[00:25:11] Well, honestly, I am very shocked by what
[00:25:15] you are describing, that is, a person visited a website and how
[00:25:19] is it known, yes? that he visited some website, how
[00:25:21] is his phone number known then, that it is
[00:25:25] immediately transferred to a recruiter?
[00:25:27] Yes, we also, of course, tried to trace this
[00:25:31] chain, because at first there was a feeling that you had to,
[00:25:34] for example, fill out some questionnaire, yes, or write
[00:25:37] there, click on the button "contact me",
[00:25:40] yes, but in fact, there are
[00:25:44] indeed services on the market that allow you to, as it
[00:25:48] were, intercept numbers.
[00:25:50] In the case that, now I am not an IT specialist, but
[00:25:54] I will try to explain, in the case that the user, for example, previously
[00:25:58] agreed to the use of cookies
[00:26:00] or...
[00:26:02] a button that he agrees to the transfer of his personal data, in general, there is
[00:26:06] a rather complex mechanism, but marketers explained to us that
[00:26:10] this is a popular thing now, and
[00:26:13] there are even some services where you can
[00:26:16] literally enter
[00:26:18] a website from which you would like to have,
[00:26:21] to have the numbers extracted, yes, so that you have this
[00:26:24] database, this
[00:26:27] database. They argue about how legal this is,
[00:26:31] yes, is it considered, for example, the transfer of a phone
[00:26:35] number without a name, the transfer of personal
[00:26:38] data without consent, but perhaps this is a blind spot
[00:26:42] now, uh-huh. Uh, Anna, I have one question,
[00:26:46] while you were working on the text, did you understand
[00:26:49] if any of these headhunters, recruiters, do any of them
[00:26:53] understand that they are literally earning quite a lot of
[00:26:57] money, literally by sending a person to
[00:27:00] death, and not just death, but also sending them to
[00:27:02] kill?
[00:27:06] This is not the first material I am doing on this topic,
[00:27:09] and it is always interesting to ask
[00:27:13] this question, specifically recruiters who work in this
[00:27:16] field, but it turns out
[00:27:20] that many of them indeed reflect on
[00:27:23] this topic and reflect actively
[00:27:26] and are ready to share their conclusions, well, some,
[00:27:30] for example, well, they admit that
[00:27:33] they justify themselves by remaining honest, well,
[00:27:37] for example, they do not mask a vacancy for
[00:27:41] war as something else, for example, as vacancies in
[00:27:44] the rear, or they do not
[00:27:47] promise that you will only be a driver, you will not be anyone
[00:27:51] else, yes, when you are in the zone of military operations, some
[00:27:55] say that they fundamentally do not work with
[00:27:59] wavering people, well, I had such a heroine
[00:28:02] about a year ago, she she, well,
[00:28:05] directly very elaborately
[00:28:07] reasoned on this topic, that if she sees that a young guy is
[00:28:11] well, hesitating, thinking yes or
[00:28:15] no, then it seems like she even tried to talk him out of it, but
[00:28:19] it's interesting that parallel to this process, yes, we could
[00:28:22] notice that her posts advertising contract service
[00:28:25] appear almost every day in relevant groups,
[00:28:29] people are still not comfortable sending people to war.
[00:28:32] But, as they say, for money, yes. Anna, thank you very much, Anna Ryshkova, journalist
[00:28:36] for Verstka on the air of Current
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