President Vladimir Putin has called for politicians, high-ranking figures and their loved ones to return home to the "Motherland" as relations with the West weaken, local media reported.Russian newspaper, Znak, said the top level order applies to "administration
staff, regional administrators, lawmakers of all levels and employees of public corporations".
Workers were also told to pull their children out of school immediately, even if it was in the middle of term and those that do not obey the edict "will put their chances of promotion at risk".
The exact reasoning for the order is still unclear but one analyst has suggested it is to prepare for “big war”.
“This is all part of the package of measures to prepare elites to some 'big war’," Russian political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky told The Daily Star.The unconfirmed reports came after Putin cancelled a visit to France on Tuesday in a furious row over Moscow's role in the Syrian conflict, which was just days after Kremlin said Syrian forces had committed a "war crime".
Russian foreign policy analyst Fyodor Lukyanov said Putin's unprecedented cancellation of the visit so close to being finalised is a "serious step... reminiscent of the Cold War".
"This is part of the broader escalation in the tensions between Russia and the West, and Russia and NATO," Lukyanov told AFP.
Despite cancelling his visit to Paris, Putin is still considering travelling to Berlin on October 19 for a meeting on the conflict in Ukraine, one of his aides told Itar-Tass on Monday.
Outspoken British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson waded into the row, calling for anti-war campaigners to protest outside the Russian embassy in London.
Johnson said the "wells of outrage are growing exhausted" and anti-war groups were not expressing sufficient outrage at the conflict in Aleppo.
"Where is the Stop the War Coalition at the moment? Where are they?" he said during a parliamentary debate.
On Saturday, Russia blocked a draft French UN resolution calling for an end to the barrage of air strikes on the rebel-held east of Aleppo that have escalated in the last month, leaving hundreds of people dead, including dozens of children.It was the fifth time that Russia used its veto to block UN action to end the five-year war in Syria that has sent millions fleeing and triggered the biggest migration crisis in Europe since World War II.
In the aftermath of that decision, Hollande described the bombing of Aleppo as a "war crime".
Hollande said in a TV interview on Monday: "Those who commit these acts will have to pay for their involvement, including at the International Criminal Court."
source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32880461/russia-orders-government-officials-families-living-abroad-to-return-to-home-amid-fears-of-new-world-war/#page1
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