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00:00:22and Yandex is still burning, you can't call a taxi, you can't
00:00:25place a delivery, drones hit Yandex in Russia, service failure
00:00:29in...
00:00:33Hello, this is Central Asia news, my name is Monas Ajigitov,
00:00:36we tell you about the main events of the region. After a series of drone
00:00:40attacks on Yandex data centers in Russia, service disruptions
00:00:43went far beyond the country. Problems
00:00:47were recorded in at least Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
00:00:49Uzbekistan, Belarus and Armenia. The consequences
00:00:53were especially noticeable for taxi and delivery services in Kazakhstan,
00:00:56users and drivers, couriers faced problems. intended for storing personal data of users from
00:01:14Kazakhstan are located on the territory of the country and operate normally, however,
00:01:18this does not mean that the entire platform functions autonomously, separate
00:01:22components necessary for providing taxi and delivery services
00:01:25are located outside
00:01:26Kazakhstan.
00:01:29Some services were unavailable, problems affected
00:01:33passengers, couriers, drivers, restaurants and stores. In Armenia and
00:01:37Belarus, users could not order a taxi or use navigation
00:01:41maps. In 4 days, drones attacked three data centers
00:01:44of the company in Ryazan, Kaluga and Vladimir regions. A day before
00:01:48the last strike, Yandex updated its user agreement and specifically
00:01:52included UAV attacks, missile strikes, shelling, explosions in
00:01:56the list of circumstances of force majeure.
00:02:01Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan condemned the attacks by Yemeni Houthis
00:02:04on King Khalid International Airport in the capital of Saudi
00:02:08Arabia. Astana called the strikes on civilian
00:02:11infrastructure unacceptable and violating international
00:02:15law, Tashkent a serious violation and called for an immediate
00:02:18cessation of attacks. Official Bishkek also stated that such
00:02:22actions lead to a dangerous escalation of the situation. I note that as a result
00:02:25of the strike on October 10, at least 12 people died, and about
00:02:29300 more were injured, among the injured were two citizens
00:02:33of Uzbekistan, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, they received
00:02:36minor injuries, they were given aid and after examination
00:02:39were discharged from the hospital. About twenty more Uzbeks who were at
00:02:43the airport were not injured. The day before, Riyadh airport
00:02:46was subjected to a new attack. There was a fire in the terminals. According to the authorities
00:02:50of Saudi Arabia, one person died, at least 11
00:02:54were injured. The attacks disrupted air traffic throughout
00:02:57the region. Airlines canceled and redirected their flights, and
00:03:00passengers faced delays and schedule disruptions.
00:03:04I note that the conflict between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia has been going on since
00:03:072014. The Houthis are a pro-Iranian armed
00:03:11movement that controls a significant part of Yemen and
00:03:14seeks recognition of its government in Sanaa. Saudi
00:03:17Arabia has supported the internationally recognized and views
00:03:21government of Yemen since 2015 the Houthis as a threat to its
00:03:24security.
00:03:28Human 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
00:03:34facility after the punishment isolator, his wife Zukhra Khamroeva reported this
00:03:38in her latest social media post, according to
00:03:42her, her husband again held a solo picket in September
00:03:45in support of another political prisoner, mathematician
00:03:48Azat Meftakhov, who, according to her data, was also subjected to
00:03:51psychological and physical violence in "Polar Owl". According to
00:03:55her, Khamroev is held incommunicado, deprived of contact with the outside
00:03:58world and is being subjected to.
00:04:30The repeat parcel was accepted. Khamroev suffered a stroke, suffers
00:04:33from diabetes and hypertension. In August, it became known that he was stripped
00:04:37of his Russian citizenship back in April 2025,
00:04:41but the document reached him only a year later. Now, according
00:04:44to 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
00:04:52Khamroev, an Uzbek-Russian human rights activist, an employee
00:04:55of Memorial, a defender of the rights of migrants. He was arrested
00:04:58on February 24.
00:05:12activities. Human rights activists state that the conditions of detention
00:05:15of the political prisoner can be qualified as
00:05:18torture.
00:05:21The administration of US President Donald Trump imposed sanctions against
00:05:25the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Earlier, it had issued
00:05:28an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. Washington accuses the court of unjustified
00:05:32persecution of American citizens and Israelis. This is stated in
00:05:36the statement of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Restrictions prohibit
00:05:40transactions with the ICC.
00:05:46President Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court
00:05:50to prosecute Americans. That's why today the United States
00:05:53is imposing sanctions against the International Criminal Court. We
00:05:57will prohibit financial transactions with this out-of-control court,
00:06:00deprive it of resources, undermine its ability
00:06:03to function. UN Secretary General
00:06:06Antonio Guterres stated that Washington's decision causes serious
00:06:10damage to collective efforts in the field of international criminal
00:06:13justice. I note that Tajikistan is considering
00:06:16the possibility of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court. In
00:06:20September, the lower house of the republic's parliament approved a draft
00:06:23resolution on the termination of the Rome
00:06:26Statute. This happened after Dushanbe
00:06:30refused to arrest Vladimir Putin during his visit in October
00:06:332025. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for
00:06:37the Russian president in March twenty-third, accusing
00:06:40him of war crimes related to the illegal deportation and
00:06:44transfer of Ukrainian
00:06:45children.
00:06:49Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov criticized
00:06:52men who take second families, leaving their first wives with
00:06:55children without housing or means of subsistence. He stated this at
00:06:59a meeting with residents of Batken region. A resident
00:07:02of Alelek named Gulzata told the president that after
00:07:06her husband secretly married another 11 years
00:07:09ago, conflicts began in the family.
00:07:15In 2022, she filed for divorce and property division, but according to her, her husband accused her of forging a marriage
00:07:19certificate and a criminal case was opened against
00:07:22her.
00:07:26How can you abandon three children and go to another woman, leaving
00:07:29them nothing? Where is justice? Investigate
00:07:32objectively, help Gulzad. It turns out he relies on his
00:07:36money and solves all problems. If a man takes a second wife,
00:07:40let him first leave the house to his first wife and children, provide for
00:07:43them and only then leave, men have also
00:07:46become corrupted. I note that, according to the State Statistics Committee of Kyrgyzstan,
00:07:49between 12,000 and 15,000 divorces are registered annually
00:07:53in the country. Polygamy is prohibited in the country, but some men
00:07:57start second families without dissolving their first
00:07:59marriage.
00:08:03That's all for today, follow the main events of the region with
00:08:07us on our website azatica.org on
00:08:10social networks, share the issue and send us your stories, have
00:08:13a good day everyone, see you tomorrow,
00:08:27right now, at this moment you hear, we are hiding
00:08:30constantly, you won't answer me this
00:08:32question,
00:08:36hides his face so I can see that he is not threatening me, suffered the most,
00:08:40this connection between home
00:08:43and the front line, it is very important for the Ukrainian military. Zana Stepanenko, Marok Gaiduk, current
00:08:47time, USA.
00:08:51A small country, with resources, the beauty of mountains,
00:08:54seas, sun, but the citizens here so confidently
00:08:57dream of a green energy future,
00:09:01that the government is changing laws. How is this
00:09:04possible? And for you, electricity is now
00:09:08completely
00:09:08free.
00:09:30In American politics, there is a rule that almost never fails. Two
00:09:34years after a presidential election, his party loses seats in Congress. This
00:09:38happened with Democrats and with Republicans, 18
00:09:41out of twenty times. Now both chambers of Congress are controlled by Republicans,
00:09:44the executive branch too, most Supreme Court judges were appointed
00:09:48by Republican presidents. Every two years, exactly in the middle
00:09:51of a presidential term, elections are held in America, which are called
00:09:54midterm elections. The entire Congress, that is, the American
00:09:57parliament, the lower house entirely - that's 435
00:10:01people, and a third of the upper house - the Senate - that's 35
00:10:04seats. Plus governors in thirty-six
00:10:06states.
00:10:12The American system is designed so that no single election changes everything at once.
00:10:16The House reflects the mood of today. The Senate is averaged over
00:10:206 years. The President is his majority at the time of the election. I
00:10:23spoke with three experts.
00:11:31in 2024 correctly predicted Donald Trump's victory, including the lead in
00:11:34the popular vote. But there are 5 months left,
00:11:38public opinion may shift slightly in favor of the president.
00:11:41Taxes, migrants, healthcare, abortions, on these topics in America everything
00:11:45is predictable. Democrats vote one way, Republicans another. The party
00:11:49line works almost without
00:11:50a hitch.
00:11:53But if the party changes.
00:12:35US experts on transatlantic relations and
00:12:38Russia, so even if Democrats do well, which
00:12:41I expect, there will be increased control over domestic policy, but I don't
00:12:45see any serious influence on foreign policy. But let's look at these
00:12:49elections as a whole, not just at the consequences, but at what could
00:12:52happen before them, for example, there might be...
00:13:55and minimal, the president has enormous power to do anything
00:13:58he wants, I expect Trump to feel even
00:14:01less constrained, but almost does not mean entirely, here's what
00:14:05Congress can still do: first, money, how much
00:14:08to allocate to Ukraine is decided by Congress, in total Washington approved
00:14:12about 195 billion dollars, and Congress not only
00:14:15gives the amount, it can specify what it can be spent on and what
00:14:19it cannot. Second, sanctions, those enacted by law,
00:14:22are much harder for the president to cancel than his own. The Senate approves
00:14:26international treaties and all ambassadors, in
00:14:282023 Congress passed a rule that the president cannot
00:14:32withdraw the US from NATO without the consent of the Senate or the adoption
00:14:35of a separate law. Congress can vote to end a military
00:14:39operation or block a major arms deal. On June 3, the House
00:14:42voted for the first time to end hostilities against
00:14:45Iran.
00:14:53The Iranian war became.
00:15:37if the president achieves a verifiable end to the nuclear program and
00:15:41the export of enriched uranium, this will support
00:15:44the president. But first of all, as experts say, Americans look at
00:15:47their wallet before ticking the box on
00:15:49the ballot.
00:15:52We see very clearly, prices are at the very top of the American
00:15:55list, and it was like that throughout Trump's term and throughout
00:15:58Biden's term. Wherever I go, people come up to me, he promised to lower
00:16:02prices, mine only grew, every week I pay more for groceries,
00:16:06that's what people think.
00:16:08Second factor: Americans are strongly against the war in Iran, that's what's
00:16:11important, throughout the entire era of polls, starting from the thirties, there was no war
00:16:15so unpopular from the very beginning. Next, drastic actions
00:16:19on immigration became unpopular, not border protection itself, but
00:16:23harsh raids. Now about the election campaign itself, it turned out to be
00:16:26unlike anything else, for the first time in over 100 years, American states
00:16:30massively redrew electoral district boundaries in the middle of the decade,
00:16:34somewhere this was done in favor of Democrats, somewhere in favor of Republicans.
00:16:39Without redrawing districts in the middle of the decade, Republicans
00:16:42would have 100% lost the House. Experts agreed
00:16:45that the new Congress can influence foreign policy, but
00:16:49not much, the president decides. The question is what does
00:16:52Trump want?
00:16:55He still wants to go down in history as a peacemaker, at the top of his agenda
00:16:59now is the war in Ukraine, here is a message to the Russian leadership: this is
00:17:03the best opportunity Russia has to end this war.
00:17:06Regulars.
00:17:18but 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
00:17:21Ukraine.
00:17:25We are moving
00:17:27on.
00:18:32looked into the camera, went, looked into the
00:18:35camera, this is my friend, and this is my friend,
00:18:39Katya, at war her name is Zoya, oh, how
00:18:42scary, guys
00:18:45tanks, I jumped so
00:18:48gracefully, right now,
00:18:51already,
00:18:54well, we are doing our part, somehow we are trying, and the rest of the
00:18:57people, Katya, tell me, what is the most
00:19:01important thing in life, what do you think, life,
00:19:04be careful,
00:19:16Meanwhile, in Russia, a new market for personal data
00:19:19has emerged. Now in Russia, databases of potential contractors
00:19:22for the war against Ukraine are being collected. Marketing
00:19:26agencies sell such data to recruiters, the
00:19:29Verstka publication reported in its new
00:19:33material. Due to high competition
00:19:36and oversaturation on VKontakte, Avito and Telegram,
00:19:39recruiters in search of new contractors for military service
00:19:42began buying up databases of phone numbers, Verstka writes.
00:19:46These databases include men who visited
00:19:49websites, the so-called SVO, as Russia calls
00:19:52the war against Ukraine, or applied to microfinance
00:19:56organizations, or, for example, were on debtor lists.
00:19:59Marketing agencies collect contacts and put them up for
00:20:02sale to military recruiters. Since 2022,
00:20:06recruiting for the war in Russia has become another
00:20:09HR direction, where marketers, targetologists, and
00:20:12other specialists who are engaged in expanding client
00:20:16databases come to work. In conversations with recruiters, marketers call potential
00:20:19contractors "clients who are already looking for your
00:20:23product and waiting for your call," this quote. Well, the
00:20:26field itself is called one of the most complex niches
00:20:29of internet marketing. Potential clients, that is, men
00:20:32for deployment to the war against Ukraine, are called by call center
00:20:36operators, asking them if
00:20:39they are considering service in the SVO,
00:20:42and if the person answers yes,
00:20:46then their data gets into databases that are then sold to recruiters.
00:20:50Verstka found out these prices: 800 thousand
00:20:53rubles for a database of 500 mobile phones of men who were previously
00:20:56interviewed by call center operators, well, the sums that
00:21:00a recruiter can earn are much larger, for example, for
00:21:03attracting citizens to conclude a contract for military service, regions usually
00:21:07pay, for example, in the Ulyanovsk region this spring
00:21:10the regional government paid for each recruited person
00:21:14200,000 rubles, which is about 2,400 dollars, and
00:21:17from one of the court cases in the Nizhny Novgorod region, it became known that one of
00:21:21the recruiters demanded from one of the state non-profit organizations a payment
00:21:25of 590,000 rubles. This is about
00:21:287.0 dollars for each of the 42 recruited
00:21:32men, the court won. Now on our air is Anna
00:21:35Ryshkova, a journalist for Verstka. Anna, welcome.
00:21:38Good afternoon. So it turns out that recruiting for the war in Russia is
00:21:42now a whole industry, how does it work? Well, it seems
00:21:46to be so, indeed, this industry
00:21:49involves a variety of professionals,
00:21:52that is, HR specialists, people who used to offer
00:21:56vacancies in completely different fields, these are
00:21:59targetologists and marketers and, in general,
00:22:03operators who, yes, must quickly call
00:22:06candidates, well, from what we see now,
00:22:09there are indeed many private recruiters who
00:22:13work either within agencies or
00:22:16independently conclude, for example, contracts.
00:22:20with recruitment centers for service, for each
00:22:24recruited candidate they
00:22:27receive a fee, the rates are very different, as you
00:22:31mentioned, from 150 thousand
00:22:33to 300,000 or 400 thousand can
00:22:37be received, well, that is, if you conditionally bought a database
00:22:40of people who are potentially
00:22:43suitable, whose profile matches the profile
00:22:46of a contractor, it pays off many times over. I wanted to ask about
00:22:50call centers, which call men, what kind of
00:22:54companies are they? We asked this question to several
00:22:56recruiters, they told us that
00:22:59it depends on the company's profile, that is, these can be marketing
00:23:03agencies that, for example, just
00:23:07call candidates for work, for
00:23:09rotational work, yes, but
00:23:13some similar agencies, given
00:23:16the demand, as it were, reorient themselves
00:23:20more often, taking as clients
00:23:23those recruiters who are trying to attract people to contract
00:23:27service, then yes, operators appear
00:23:30who specifically deal with calling
00:23:34candidates for service, that is, it's their
00:23:37specialization, they previously agree with recruiters
00:23:41on the scripts for these calls, yes, that is, the recruiter
00:23:44can express some wishes, that is, what specific
00:23:48questions need to be asked to the
00:23:51candidate when the operator calls, but most often these are
00:23:54questions related to possible diagnoses,
00:23:58criminal records, and whether the
00:24:01person expressed a desire or
00:24:05hesitates, but nevertheless had the
00:24:09thought of signing a contract, that is,
00:24:12well, we can conclude that this is conditionally a portrait of some
00:24:15people who are either socially unprotected or in
00:24:19some difficult financial situation, it happens
00:24:22differently, that is, those databases of numbers that we
00:24:26wrote about, these are specifically people who
00:24:29very recently, literally it can be that
00:24:32this morning or yesterday evening visited
00:24:36websites dedicated to contract service, yes,
00:24:39after that these databases are parsed, transmitted to
00:24:43recruiters, and the recruiter must quickly
00:24:46react and call the candidate as soon as possible,
00:24:50because it happens that these databases
00:24:53are resold to several recruiters at once, yes, then such a
00:24:57struggle for these men begins, but our
00:25:00interlocutors said that there are different databases on the market, including
00:25:04debtor databases or databases of men
00:25:07who applied to microfinance organizations?
00:25:11Well, honestly, I am very shocked by what
00:25:15you are describing, that is, a person visited a website and how
00:25:19is it known, yes? that he visited some website, how
00:25:21is his phone number known then, that it is
00:25:25immediately transferred to a recruiter?
00:25:27Yes, we also, of course, tried to trace this
00:25:31chain, because at first there was a feeling that you had to,
00:25:34for example, fill out some questionnaire, yes, or write
00:25:37there, click on the button "contact me",
00:25:40yes, but in fact, there are
00:25:44indeed services on the market that allow you to, as it
00:25:48were, intercept numbers.
00:25:50In the case that, now I am not an IT specialist, but
00:25:54I will try to explain, in the case that the user, for example, previously
00:25:58agreed to the use of cookies
00:26:00or...
00:26:02a button that he agrees to the transfer of his personal data, in general, there is
00:26:06a rather complex mechanism, but marketers explained to us that
00:26:10this is a popular thing now, and
00:26:13there are even some services where you can
00:26:16literally enter
00:26:18a website from which you would like to have,
00:26:21to have the numbers extracted, yes, so that you have this
00:26:24database, this
00:26:27database. They argue about how legal this is,
00:26:31yes, is it considered, for example, the transfer of a phone
00:26:35number without a name, the transfer of personal
00:26:38data without consent, but perhaps this is a blind spot
00:26:42now, uh-huh. Uh, Anna, I have one question,
00:26:46while you were working on the text, did you understand
00:26:49if any of these headhunters, recruiters, do any of them
00:26:53understand that they are literally earning quite a lot of
00:26:57money, literally by sending a person to
00:27:00death, and not just death, but also sending them to
00:27:02kill?
00:27:06This is not the first material I am doing on this topic,
00:27:09and it is always interesting to ask
00:27:13this question, specifically recruiters who work in this
00:27:16field, but it turns out
00:27:20that many of them indeed reflect on
00:27:23this topic and reflect actively
00:27:26and are ready to share their conclusions, well, some,
00:27:30for example, well, they admit that
00:27:33they justify themselves by remaining honest, well,
00:27:37for example, they do not mask a vacancy for
00:27:41war as something else, for example, as vacancies in
00:27:44the rear, or they do not
00:27:47promise that you will only be a driver, you will not be anyone
00:27:51else, yes, when you are in the zone of military operations, some
00:27:55say that they fundamentally do not work with
00:27:59wavering people, well, I had such a heroine
00:28:02about a year ago, she she, well,
00:28:05directly very elaborately
00:28:07reasoned on this topic, that if she sees that a young guy is
00:28:11well, hesitating, thinking yes or
00:28:15no, then it seems like she even tried to talk him out of it, but
00:28:19it's interesting that parallel to this process, yes, we could
00:28:22notice that her posts advertising contract service
00:28:25appear almost every day in relevant groups,
00:28:29people are still not comfortable sending people to war.
00:28:32But, as they say, for money, yes. Anna, thank you very much, Anna Ryshkova, journalist
00:28:36for Verstka on the air of Current
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