While traditionally linked to economic liberalization, deregulation, and market-driven policies, neoliberalism in Russia has developed a unique trajectory. The neoliberalization marked a new system of governance and political economy, narrowing and materializing the relationships between the state and the social welfare system within the framework of "neoliberal” or “flexible” authoritarianism. This study argues that the mechanism of legitimizing war and mobilization in Russia becomes clearer through the lens of class subjectivities within the context of neoliberally structured socio-economic inequality. Against the backdrop of the Kremlin's intensifying biopolitics aimed at fostering national unity, the depoliticized antagonism between "biopolitical waste" and the "middle class" is resolved through the implicit and explicit use of mobilization as a resource for improving socio-economic positions within the "commercial-biopolitical matrix," both symbolically and financially. | 
