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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russians possess a “genetic code of winners” during a meeting with Sakhalin Region Governor Valery Limarenko, who briefed the president on support measures for participants in the special military operation and their families. Limarenko said he sees among the people a determination to do “everything for victory.” “That is what our people are like. They have the genetic code of winners.”

Route-based approaches promise a paradigm shift in international refugee and migration policy. Rather than treating individual country contexts in isolation, they shift attention to developments along key migration corridors. The analytical value is obvious, given the complex and transnational character of mobility dynamics. Yet the growing popularity of route-based approaches also follows a political rationale – they resonate across different political camps, offer operational synergies and may help allocate scarce resources more effectively. At the same time, the concept reflects a fundamental tension in international migration policy: route-based approaches can improve protection along migration corridors, but they can also legitimise the out­sourcing of migration control to countries of origin and transit. Whether route-based approaches amount to substantive change or merely repackage a logic of control will depend on how they are implemented.

Campaigners say anti-rights movements are increasingly using family law to challenge women's rights to inheritance, property, divorce and child custody.