“Directed by ad.” How Russia is looking for collaborators
Russian occupation summaries of data through job posting sites.
Despite the retreat from Kherson and the likelihood that the Ukrainian army will continue to recapture the territories lost after February 24, the Russian authorities continue nationalization Ukrainian assets both in Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Do not let them go and private business. Radio Liberty studied vacancies on the websites HeadHunter.ru and SuperJob.ru, during which vacancies were found in occupied Ukrainian cities: to lure highly qualified Ukrainian specialists to work in Russia, and even an offer for applicants for the position of “deputy minister” in Zaporozhye.
Headhunters
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, journalists have already managed to find many extraordinary vacancies on Russian job search sites. For example, quite recently here were looking for people for digging trenches and trenches in Berdyansk and Tokmak. Since the end of February, job ad sites have also been drastically has grown the number of vacancies in the specialty “contract serviceman”.
The vast majority of job offers that indicate that they are suitable for residents of the “new Russian regions” are an attempt by Russian employers to employ labor resources from the occupied Ukrainian regions. Mainly for unskilled work in the metropolitan service of an enterprise or shift workers to the edges of the North, to Mordovia and other remote regions of Russia. On the website HeadHunter.ru, we found several vacancies, using Russian medical institutions poaching qualified employees from Ukraine, such as doctors. So, in the Krasnodar Territory, the Yeisk Psychoneurological Dispensary looking for psychiatrists of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region. We wrote in the WhatsApp messenger at the phone number indicated in the announcement and received confirmation that this is a state budgetary institution “with the participation of employees from new regions of Russia.”
There are hundreds of vacancies in the construction industry with a direct conclusion that applicants are needed to work in the construction industry destroyed by bombing and missile attacks in Mariupol. there are only companies that are looking for such employees, do not find involvement in the “restoration of the city” on their websites, and even proud hey. About what such workers meet in practice, you can read on this page. link in the material “Mediazones”.
“I’m taking you as a minister, or at least a deputy minister”
In October 2022, Acting Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Chuvashia Alexander Vorobyov surrendered his service ID, packed his things and went to the territories of Ukraine occupied by the Russian army.
“We passed the Crimean bridge literally 3.5 hours before the explosion, the sensations at the moment are the most unpleasant,” – changed Vorobyov to journalists of the Pravda PFO website on October 8. Prior to this, Vorobyov received a new position: the Minister of Natural Resources of the Zaporozhye region.
In the same interview, the official complained that he found local personnel to work in the new department with difficulty: “Local specialists are very “nightmare” from that side. They say that American funds are allocated for such material stimulation of a lot of money, ”said Vorobyov.
In the occupied territories of Ukraine, attempts have been made more than once, both on officials who agree with the supervisory authorities, and on visitors from Moscow and other Russian cities. September 6 after the car bombing died “commandant” of Berdyansk Artem Bardin. In June, another car was blown up in Kherson in the German government Dmitry Savluchenko. He also died. It is far not the only cases.
Apparently, after such news, the problem of finding people who are ready to govern with the occupying power turned out to be quite serious. So much so that Alexander Vorobyov had to look for employees on ordinary classifieds sites – even his own penalty. this vacancy still freedom, the past competition is promised up to 300 thousand rubles a month. A little less (260 thousand per month) can earn in the same ministry “Director of the Department of Subsoil Use and Water Resources”.
Local search queries and other Russian ministries established in the occupied Ukrainian territories. For example, the Ministry of Industry and Energy of the Zaporozhye region, which includes the former adviser to the Minister of Industry of the Sverdlovsk region of Russia Yuri Guskov, ready to fly 150-200 thousand rubles per month for legal heads of the planning and economic department.
While there is a search for valuable personnel, the ministry is engaged in PR. Together with the State Grain Operator (which, according to investigation Financial Times, created in fact for the trade in grain stolen in the occupied Ukrainian territories), the Zaporozhye “Ministry of Industry” and Guskov personally initiated the project “Russia speaks!“-” a documentary film with Ivan Okhlobystin and 25 videos that cover the spheres of society and one economy in the liberated territory of the Zaporozhye region.
Inventory of loot
Back in early 2022, two months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar reported in official press releasethat the military personnel seized its infrastructure and offices in the Kherson region. The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office opened criminal proceedings under the article “Violation of the fate and customs of war.”
At the beginning of summer, first the Phoenix operator from the self-proclaimed DPR, and then the newly created Russian company Mir Telecom, began work in the occupied territories of southern Ukraine. She works under license, open looking for on their website, customer service specialists in Melitopol, Berdyansk and Genichesk, but nowhere are they found what kind of infrastructure they use to service subscribers.
Radio Liberty is present on HeadHunter.ru vacancy “Mobile communication fitter”, which directly states that it is about “inventory of the basic set”, and the place of work is “Zaporozhye region”. Including qualifications, there must be applicants – “repair work on the passage of doors and locks.” The employer is a small company “MSKA Profile” LLC from Sergiev Posad near Moscow, established in 2019 and having only 5 employees, as from the database of legal entities “Kontur.Focus”.
Radio Liberty is violated by the telephone number indicated in the ad. The man who answered the phone confirmed that it was about the needs of the former basic doctors of the Ukrainian operators. He did not specify which towers of which Ukrainian operators he was talking about, but he assured that there was no need to carry out work on reconnecting the BS: “All the towers have already been reconnected,” our source said.
Having occupied Kherson, the Russian authorities hung posters around the city with the inscriptions “Russia is here forever.” After 8 and a half months, when Kherson was liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this slogan became perhaps jokes on social media. Their prospects in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhya region, LLC “MSKA Profile” are assessed in full accordance with the phrase “never say forever”: the announcement states that the applicant will be provided with a “guaranteed amount of work for 3 years.”
“Official employment when applying for a job”
At the end of July 2022, the Russian court fined for 60 thousand rubles of one of the largest Russian companies for the collection of secondary analyzes – “Hemotest”. required a data breach from France for her clients. In October, 10 Gemotest clients asked The Investigative Committee initiates a criminal case on the fact of the leak.
This scandal did not prevent Gemotest from expanding its business through the Russian occupation of Ukraine: the company looking for “New Events Development Manager” The phrase “new territories”, as follows from the description of vacancies, refers to the unrecognized Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics”. Based on the upcoming upcoming in the annexed Crimea, and the essence of the work is to travel around the “DPR” and “LPR” and search for real estate to open new laboratories.
Gemotest did not answer the question of a Radio Liberty journalist about what awaits the applicant if the laboratory is located on the territory that will be de-occupied by the Ukrainian army in the future. “Hemotest” is used, seduces with the seduction of “registration according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.” This privilege is not available to everyone who is looking for work in the territories of Ukraine not controlled by Kyiv. Thus, the Crimean network of electronics stores “OSCOM”, which is a supplier of the Ministry of Defense, the FSO and the newly formed Russian state structures in the occupied part of Zaporozhye, looking for employees in the Zaporozhye region and provide official employment only “at the request” of the applicant.
Over 1000 corner cases
Citizens of Ukraine who agree to the job offers listed above face not only revenge from Ukrainian “partisans”, but also criminal prosecution.
November 2 State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine reported, which has already opened 1050 criminal cases against “traitors and collaborators”. More than 800 cases were initiated under the article “high treason”, 132 – under the new article “Collaboration activities”, adopted in the country’s criminal code in March, 10 – under the article “Aiding the aggressor state”. Most of the products are open in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye versions. As wrote in “Important Stories”, after February 24 in Ukraine, you endured more than 70 sentences under these articles every month. If before the start of a full-scale Russian invasion, then under the articles on “treason” and “separatism” they were most often conditional, at present, in almost 65% of cases, courts were found that were identified under the new articles of the Criminal Code of the decision on a short period of observation. Almost 300 detained in collaborationism