Flounder-ing Putin pays recruits' families in fish - The Times

Russia’s beleaguered enlistment officers were given a new way to entice men to join up this week: plying their families with fresh fish.

The local chief of President Putin’s ruling party, Mikhail Shuvalov, promised islanders in the far-eastern Sakhalin island 5kg of flounder, pollock and salmon in exchange for sending their men to a war believed to have already killed 50,000 Russian soldiers.

“We take your husband and you get to eat for a few weeks,” said Anton Barbashin, a Russian political analyst. “That’s a true indication of poverty officials want everyone to forget.” The initiative follows a scheme in Tuva where families receive one sheep, coal, 50kg of flour and two bags of potatoes for each family member dispatched to the front.

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