The Downside Up charitable foundation, which organizes assistance for children with Down syndrome, addressed the Russian Anti-Maidan movement with an open letter, expressing outrage at the slogan “WE ARE NOT MAYDOWNS!” “This slogan clearly demonstrates intolerance towards people with Down syndrome and is offensive in nature...
In response to the growing information pressure of Kremlin propaganda in the media, the Lithuanian national broadcasting company LRT is going to release new programs for the Russian-speaking population, and in the fall it is planned to launch a program that will expose the sources of propaganda and their principles of operation. According to the chairman ...
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the possibility of protecting state interests in the Arctic by means of armed struggle. "A permanent military presence in the Arctic and the possibility of protecting state interests by means of armed struggle is considered as an integral part of the general policy of ensuring national security," said ...
Putin's goal is to destroy NATO. Although the Russian invasion of Ukraine is an integral part of this strategy, it is only a sideshow, and the main event lies ahead, writes Paul Roderick Gregory in his article entitled “What if Ukraine Decides to Stop Fighting?” Published on the website ...
In the Ukrainian conflict, which has killed thousands of people, both sides consistently violate the rules of war, which includes indiscriminate strikes and the use of densely populated areas for attacks, according to the annual report of the human rights organization Amnesty International. Every year Amnesty ...
At the end of the day, the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministry of Internal Affairs) of Georgia commented on the information about the movement of Russian military vehicles around the country. The department states that the cars were purchased in Russia by a private individual and they are prohibited from traveling to a third country. "IN…
In the next ten years, the world will face significant changes: Russia will disintegrate, Germany will lose its leadership position in the reshaped European Union, and Poland will take its place. This is stated in the latest geopolitical forecast for the next decade, presented by the American non-governmental analytical center Stratfor, which is also called ...
“Germany undertook to negotiate with the Russian Federation alone because Merkel believed that she could resolve the conflict thanks to her personal connections with Putin,” writes British journalist Anne Applebaum in her column for the Washington Post. Anne Applebaum notes that over the past ten...
Journalist and writer Harry Shteyngart agreed to be part of an experiment in which he had to watch Kremlin propaganda channels for seven days in a row, with the opportunity to distract himself with two hours of physical exercise. “On a cold, sunny New Year's Eve in 2014, I am sitting on...
In Georgia, there was an uproar over photos of Russian military equipment that appeared on the Internet in the center of Tbilisi. In particular, the blogosphere was agitated by the pictures of military trucks with transit Russian license plates from region 06, presumably Ingushetia. According to Georgian bloggers, these cars on the night of ...