Secretaries and housekeepers are privileged positions these days. If you are a cannon meat, nobody cares about your health, you're given a simple gun and ordered to run forward to the enemies' position.

It's true that they tried to constript many people from the poor regions or the regions where most of the people are the ethnic minorities. Although, people from the major cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, were and are still conscripted in large quantities since September. It is just men from the major cities are more likely to be educated and informed, so it is harder for the military offices to find them and force them to join the army. For example, one official accidentally said that the plan for the mobilization in Moscow was not even half completed.

Before the war everyone deemed category C as a way to avoid the mandatory 1 year of military service. Unfortunately, individuals with Category C were and are conscripted during the mobilization (conscription) since September when Putin made it mandatory for everyone from the military reserve.

Any ideas, what's the best place in the downtown to go so you can see the fireworks?

I wish I knew. I know that there's some kind of concert and the fireworks at midnight in Hartford Downtown. Hopefully, I'll be able to see the fireworks.