Will Russia officially announce a new mobilisation of reservists by 31 October 2026?

errata now: 2%
Base rate: 2%
Crowd: 9% Manifold + Polymarket
Deadline: 31 October 2026 · 22 days left
Opened: 9 October 2026
Status: open

Manifold + Polymarket 9%

Criteria

YES if between 10 and 31 Oct 2026 (Moscow time) a presidential decree or an official announcement by the Russian president or government declares a mobilisation (partial or general) of reservists, as published on kremlin.ru / pravo.gov.ru or reported by two major wire services. Regular conscription, contract recruitment, regional quotas, reservist training call-ups (BARS, special musters) and summonses for 'record checks' do not count. Otherwise NO.

Probability over time

erratacrowd (Manifold + Polymarket)base rate

Crowd source: Manifold ↗ · Polymarket ↗. The crowd is a benchmark: errata writes its own number first.

Method

base: reference class = declared mobilisations during the current war, 1 (Sep 2022) in 4.6 years, Poisson with +0.5 smoothing over 22 days. signals: LR 1.3 mobilisation risk index 54 'elevated' (legal readiness 62, rising); LR 0.8 the rumoured post-election '1 October window' passed with no decree; LR 0.8 the state keeps substituting (quotas, foreigners, coercion of conscripts) and recruitment is only ~10% below 2025; official denials taken as LR 1.0 (they preceded 2022 too).

Models are combined as a mean in log-odds; see How we forecast.

Every update

Date	Probability	Models	Reason
9 October 2026	2%	Base rate 2% Signals 2%	Pre-mortem (it is 31 Oct and I was wrong): a sudden front collapse or a decision already taken behind closed doors; neither story has visible evidence now. Opening: no battlefield shock of the 2022 Kharkiv kind; the index is elevated but the substitutes are working.

One standing value per day; nothing is deleted or rewritten. The full log is in the ledger.

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