Alleged full dump of Russian military personnel, including IDs and SSNs (opens in new tab)

Kinda. Putin is ending up making Russia look more like a more powerful and unhinged version of North Korea than a legitimate world power. He might end up going way too far and alienating China.

Scary stuff, Putin seems like an "if I can't have it, nobody can" tyrant.

It's pretty useless, probably. I've read a couple of interviews with family members of the captured soldiers (for example, ¹). They don't seem to have any idea where those soldiers are and have no way to communicate with them. Although it may all be lies in an attempt to lessen their guilt, considering the rest of her speech ("he didn't know where he was going, he didn't do anything, those bad Ukrainians for taking him prisoner").

¹ https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/02/27/ia-ne-schitaiu-c...

you're someone. Go for it

This would need official support, some kind of visa. The "Good Russian" visa.

Don't like what Putin, Inc. is doing? Hire away all the talent.

Not just service members. It was most people who had ever held a security clearance, civilian and military.

Only ones not included were agencies that did not use OPM for background investigations (which was only one or two).

Even then, many of the employees of those agencies previously worked for the ones who used OPM’s systems.

In Russia everyone has a social security number called SNILS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNILS_(Russia)

It doesn’t literally say SSNs, but “идентификационные коды” which translates as (and sounds like) “identification codes”.

Russia has its own social security system, and it also uses numbers for identification.

Table headers are quite suspect, there is a column named "state, federal territory, etc". In Russian "state" refers exclusively to US states or Micronesia states, and "federal territory" refers exclusively to German feredal states.

I think you are asking this as if they are receiving social security benefits? We all have these numbers in Sweden for example. Its birth date plus 4 unique digits amounting to a hash code (and gender)

If they don’t have social security number (or ID) they can’t be protected by the Geneva convention

Why wouldn't they?

Why wouldn’t they?

Reduce morale among the Russian troops. Arguably a reason why Chechnya won out in the first was against them.

Erm ... no? Principles exist on both sides of the coin.

The article says almost the same thing as the title on HN, just more emotional and personal.