It’s no secret that Russia relies on high salaries and sign-on bonuses to recruit more soldiers to fight in Ukraine. Despite staggering battlefield losses, an estimated 30,000 men still enlist every month. But after four years of full-scale war, the cost of finding volunteers is only rising steadily, and the burden is falling on Russia’s regions. On a recent episode of The Naked Pravda, deputy editor Eilish Hart explored the big questions behind Russia’s ongoing recruitment numbers with Dr. J...