A court in St. Petersburg fined the hearing impaired Yevgeny Agafonov after being detained at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 31. This is reported by the “Apology of Protest”. Agafonov is a hearing impaired group III, he is unable to speak. According to lawyer Sergei Loktev, the man did not know about the action and did not participate

The group had been plotting subversive actions and abduction of a senior military official.Photo from UNIAN The SBU Security Service’s counterintelligence department has successfully completed a sting operation to expose a network of Russian assets recruited by the FSB from among former officers with the spec-ops forces. The group had been plotting subversive actions and abduction of a former chief of

Residents of the occupied Crimea are massively restoring passports issued by Ukraine. Alexander Gorny, who previously strongly supported the Russian occupation of Crimea, wrote this in his blog on Echo of Moscow. According to him, residents of the Russian-occupied peninsula “are tired of the lies and lawlessness of the local authorities, but so far they are silent”. “But the number

MP Roman Lozinsky (from the Holos faction) proposes not to let the journalists of the 112 Ukraine, NewsOne, ZIK television channels, against which sanctions were imposed, into the building of the Verkhovna Rada. “The overwhelming majority of MPs with a pro-Ukrainian position insist that so-called journalists from pro-Russian channels do not work in the Ukrainian parliament,” Lozinsky said at a

Editor-in-chief of the Russian propaganda RT TV channel Margarita Simonyan have invited employees of the sanctioned TV channels ZiK, NewsOne and 112 Ukraine to work. She wrote this on her Telegram. “I offer a job… to employees of Ukrainian TV channels, just closed by democrat Zelensky”, – she stated. In addition, the offer to work on the Russian channel is

   KYIV. Feb 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The majority of Ukrainians consider themselves responsible enough to grant them the right to carry short-barreled weapons, according to the data of the first national survey on the request of citizens for the right of armed self-defense. Presenting the results of the survey at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Friday, the organizer of

The greatest shortage of doctors is observed in the medical institutions of occupied Debaltseve, Snizhne, Horlivka and Khartsyzsk. This fact was recognized by the “DNR” leader Denis Pushilin. “The shortage of doctors reaches 50% of the total percentage of staffing positions in remote areas. This is a large enough figure to practically sound the alarm… The situation of the provision

05.02.2021 12:16 The number of children living in poverty in eastern Ukraine due to the armed conflict and the coronavirus pandemic has increased from 36% to over 50%. Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Ukraine Lotta Sylwander said this at the conference entitled “COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of Humanitarian Crisis: Situation in Eastern Ukraine,” an Ukrinform

Russia is preparing for a “serious conversation” with the U.S. over Washington’s response to the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. According to Zakharova, Washington should mind “its own business”. She sterssed that the rhetoric that America supposedly allows itself about Russia will not be able to help in relations between the countries.

Now, will Biden repeat his Obama-era mistakes? By Frank Calzon. February 4. 2021 Fidel Castro at a news conference in Cuba, February 1989 (Rob Crandall/Shutterstock.com)  The decision by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency to return the Cuban government to the U.S. terror list drew an immediate reply from Havana and analysts who condemned

Nick Cohen 4 February 2021 (Note from scradge1: This article, which is a review of a book by David Baddiel, skillfully highlights the links between putler, Iran, the far right and the far left). Suppose you explain to someone spouting racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory ideas that they are prejudiced. You may begin by giving them the benefit of the

  A Russian aircraft flew in Estonian airspace without permission on Wednesday morning, the Ministry of Defense said, The Ilyushin Il-76 IL76MD aircraft entered Estonian airspace above Vaindloo Island in the Gulf of Finland without permission and flew in Estonia’s airspace for approximately one minute. The aircraft’s transponder was switched on but radio contact was not established with the Estonian