On November 1, the Russian public was told by president Putin that the government’s ‘partial military mobilization' was apparently over. (The Ministry of Defense had already said as such the day before.) Yet even if military drafting efforts are truly curtailed — at least for now — the pressure to expand the country’s economic mobilization is growing. On October 24, Putin signed a decree establishing a coordinating committee headed by prime minister Mikhail Mishustin.
