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Ombudsman Moskalkova urges international community to protect Russian speakers in Ukraine

Posted on July 30, 2021 by foccusser 3 comments

MOSCOW, July 30 (RAPSI) — Russian Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova has called international human rights organizations to take measures to prevent further discrimination of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine. For her part, the Russian Human Rights Commissioner said, she called on her colleagues – heads of international human rights organizations and integration associations of ombudsmen – to pay special attention to

Lukashenko does not exclude Russian troops deployment in Belarus

Posted on July 30, 2021 by foccusser 2 comments

However, he stated there is absolutely no need for it considering modern weapons President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko mentioned that he was ready to deploy Russian army bases in the republic if it would be necessary for the security of the Union State, as BelTA reported. “If we have to deploy all the armed forces with all kinds of weapons

Concerns mount over Russia-Belarus military exercises

Posted on July 30, 2021 by foccusser 3 comments

UkraineAlert by Brian Whitmore With the quadrennial Zapad military exercises just six weeks away, Russian troops and military equipment have begun arriving in Belarus. The Belarusian Defense Ministry announced on Telegram on July 27 that the latest contingent of Russian soldiers arrived at the Polonka railway station in western Belarus where they were greeted with bread and salt by servicemen

The Flying Dutchman How a blogger’s devotion to anti-colonialism became an obsession with MH17 that led to a police raid on a Russian journalist’s home

Posted on July 29, 2021 by foccusser 2 comments

Early on July 28, police officers raided the home of investigative journalist Roman Dobrokhotov, The Insider’s creator and editor-in-chief. After searching his apartment, the officers escorted him to a local station for questioning about defamation charges filed back in April. For now, the authorities have named Dobrokhotov as a witness in their investigation. The available evidence suggests that the case’s

The EU is failing to stand up for eastern Europe

Posted on July 28, 2021 by foccusser 3 comments

William Nattrass Will the EU stand up for eastern Europe? This question is now being asked by Ukraine following the announcement of a deal between Germany and the USA which paves the way for the completion of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and western Europe. The deal reached by Merkel and Biden may have placated critics

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Ukraine to provide Lithuania with barbed wire for construction of fence on border with Belarus

Posted on July 28, 2021 by foccusser 4 comments

Ukraine will provide Lithuania with barbed wire for the construction of the fence on the border with Belarus, according to the decision made at a government meeting. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Ukraine has decided to provide Lithuania with “humanitarian aid” in the form of barbed wire due to the critical situation on the border with Belarus. According

U.K. Court Hears Abramovich Libel Claim Over Putin Book

Posted on July 28, 2021 by foccusser 5 comments

Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich rejects “lazy inaccuracies” in a book that claims he took over Chelsea Football Club at the Kremlin’s behest, his lawyer said Wednesday at the start of a U.K. libel trial. The billionaire is suing Reuters journalist Catherine Belton and publisher HarperCollins over their 2020 book “Putin’s People: How The KGB Took Back Russia And Then Took

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Some 28 countries confirm their participation in Crimean Platform’s summit – Kuleba

Posted on July 28, 2021 by foccusser 5 comments

To date, some 28 countries and international organizations have confirmed their participation in the Crimean Platform inaugural summit, which will be held in Kyiv on August 23, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said. “As of today, 28 countries and international organizations have already confirmed their participation in the Crimean Platform summit. This will be an unprecedented international event in the

Modus Trollerandi Part 1: The Straw Man

Posted on July 28, 2021 by foccusser 2 comments

How Democracy is SWAMPED: Seven Cheap Tricks Since 2015, EUvsDisinfo has detected, documented and debunked disinformation from pro-Kremlin media. All individual cases are collected and available in a large and steadily growing database. A consequence of EUvsDisinfo having followed pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets for several years is that certain patterns appear. EUvsDisinfo have, on earlier occasions, observed storytelling as a means

Russia outraged at demolition of Soviet monument in Lviv

Posted on July 27, 2021 by foccusser 7 comments

The monument of Glory in the Ukrainian city was completely dismantled on July 23, by the decision of the city council Russia’s Foreign Ministry responded to the dismantling of the Monument of Glory in Lviv. The diplomatic office called this step “an act of state vandalism”. Aleksandr Bikantov, a senior official in the Russian Foreign Ministry said that as cited

Courage that deserves support

Posted on July 27, 2021 by foccusser 4 comments

Edward Lucas Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find European countries with a serious foreign policy. The big players are out of the game. France will be in vain. In Germany, the head of state is approaching the end of her career. Britain is tossing between resisting China’s tricks and encroaching on its wealth There is no point in looking at all, shifting to

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Russian newspaper linked to Prigogine asks FSB to recognize Bellingcat as “undesirable organization”

Posted on July 27, 2021 by foccusser 3 comments

The St. Petersburg edition of Bellingcat already had a conflict, which was considered in a Dutch court. The Federal News Agency (RIA FAN), linked to pro-Kremlin businessman Yevgeny Prigogine , said it had asked the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office and the FSB to declare the Bellingcat project an “undesirable organization.” According to the publication, Bellingcat is one of the main mouthpieces of anti-Russian propaganda, which

Putin views Ukraine as “the anti-Russia” and the struggle against it as his mission, Shevchuk says

Posted on July 27, 2021 by foccusser 5 comments

Paul A Goble Vladimir Putin considers Ukraine not as a country and nation in its own right but as “’the anti-Russia,’ that is as imply yet another Western project” against which he is called as the successor of Moscow princes to fight against, according to Republic portal commentator Mikhail Shevchuk. Two weeks after promising to produce an article on Ukraine, Putin issued

How Putin Keeps Winning

Posted on July 27, 2021 by foccusser 5 comments

Kurt Volker Russia’s president exploits three mistakes the United States makes time and again: a default toward de-escalation rather than confronting aggression; a desire to compartmentalize issues rather than link them; and complacency about the U.S. role in the world, rather than a drive to compete proactively. Vladimir Putin’s experience as a KGB officer in Germany has served him well

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This is not just propaganda. Why Russia filed a lawsuit against Ukraine

Posted on July 26, 2021 by foccusser 2 comments

Vitaly Portnikov In Russia, there was an attempt to use the European Court of Human Rights not only for propaganda, but also for very specific decisions. The European Court of Human Rights ( ECtHR), to which Russia has lodged its first interstate complaint in its history – of course against Ukraine – has denied Russia urgent interim action on the lawsuit. When the details

Putin Warns of ‘Lethal’ Strikes at Russian Warship Parade

Posted on July 25, 2021 by foccusser 7 comments

President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that Russia’s navy was capable of delivering lethal strikes against underwater and aerial enemy targets during a parade of warships in the port city of St. Petersburg. The Russian leader’s boast comes days after military officials announced tests of advanced new weapons, some of which come from an arsenal Putin has described as “invincible.” “The

Monetary wars in Belarus. What Lukashenka started

Posted on July 25, 2021 by foccusser 3 comments

Brian Whitmore Monetary wars in Belarus resemble a complex multidimensional chess game with several moving parts In addition to harsh suppression of activists and independent journalists , the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is now also seeking to seize their money. Since the beginning of this year, according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists, Belarusian law enforcement agencies have conducted 107 searches

Russia accuses U.S.of building ‘belt of instability’ to undermine Moscow

Posted on July 24, 2021 by foccusser 16 comments

Russia has repeatedly accused the U.S. and its NATO allies of plotting regime change in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and elsewhere Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused Western nations of trying to create a “belt of instability” to undermine Moscow, while also meddling in Russia’s upcoming parliamentary elections and backing extremists. This is reported by Newsweek. At a foreign policy

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Timothy Ash: US policy on Russia is wrong and failing

Posted on July 24, 2021 by foccusser 12 comments

Do you think someone is going to tell U.S. President Joe Biden’s Russia/Ukraine team that they screwed up on this one? They managed to unite the whole of Eastern Europe, except Russia, against the U.S., around Nord Stream 2 by agreeing with Germany to led the pipeline get finished. This means that 30 years of hard work has gone up

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Russia Fires Back at Olympics for Correcting Ukraine Map to Include Crimea

Posted on July 23, 2021 by foccusser 4 comments

The Olympics have frequently become a battleground for countries’ territorial claims. This week, amid the opening ceremonies, have been no exception. Russia on Friday fired back at the International Olympic Committee after it appeared to change a map previously showing the Crimean Peninsula as separate from Ukraine hours before the games’ opening ceremonies were scheduled to begin. “This is a

Russia’s claim against Ukraine with ECHR has no chance of success – Kuleba

Posted on July 22, 2021 by foccusser 8 comments

The claim of the Russian Federation against Ukraine with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) was filed for propaganda purposes and has no chance of being satisfied, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. “Without interfering with the ECHR justice, I can absolutely assure that this court claim has no chance of being satisfied, and it was filed by Russia

Kremlin tests disconnecting Russia from world internet

Posted on July 22, 2021 by foccusser 4 comments

Russian authorities held exercises to isolate the Russian internet segment (Runet) from the global internet, RBC news agency reports, citing sources and materials of the working group “Information Security” under Russia’s Digital Economy national program. The exercises, which took place between June 15 and July 15, were attended by Russia’s “big four” internet providers (MTS, Beeline, Megafon and Tele2), as

In Doping Scandal, Russia Opts For ‘Honorable Surrender’

Posted on July 22, 2021 by foccusser 2 comments

Moscow has a reputation for fiercely defending its standing on the world stage, but in a years-long and embarrassing doping scandal in sports, it’s playing a different game. Russia is banned from the Tokyo Olympics this summer, a ruling stemming from revelations in 2015 that officials covered up widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs among its athletes. Instead of going on

If no end to Donbas war is seen in foreseeable future…

Posted on July 22, 2021 by foccusser 2 comments

… It could be better to ensure a “conflict freeze” than to end it on Kremlin’s terms, and the Ukrainian people seem to be ready to embrace the option On July 20-21, two closely related news regarding the occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions burst into the Ukrainian media space. Firstly, this is an interview by Dmitry Kozak, deputy

Moscow never uses energy resources for pressure, – Russian Ambassador on Nord Stream 2

Posted on July 22, 2021 by foccusser One comment

Commenting possible sanctions against Russia, the diplomat stated that only the UN Security Council is empowered to resolve such issues The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States of America Anatoly Antonov criticized the agreement between the United States and Germany regarding Nord Stream 2, which contains the threat of sanctions if the pipeline is used as a

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