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#Russia #China #Iran #NorthKorea #RussianUkrainianWar — For context: #Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (#FPÖ → aschtray!) has close ties to #Putin‘s United Russia party.
13th March 2023
Xi Jinping intends to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to the publication, the online talks will take place after the visit of the Chinese leader to Moscow.
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The truth is illegal in Putin’s Russia. It had a sham trial and is being tortured and killed. The Navalny documentary’s Oscar win can bring more attention not just to his plight, but to true nature of the dictatorship, as he wishes.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
The director of the documentary about jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny reveals how he shot his film that won at the #Oscars. By
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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi that they “could be very helpful to each other if we really put our efforts together” while on a visit to Tehran Monday.
themoscowtimes.com Lukashenko Courts Iran’s Raisi in Continuing Diplomatic Push The presidents of Iran and Belarus hailed their close ties in talks in Tehran Monday at a time both countries are sharply at odds with
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Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit President Vladimir Putin in Russia as soon as next week, Reuters reported Monday, citing unnamed sources briefed on the matter.
We spoke to Andrea Graziosi, Italian historian and expert on Stalinism, about why Vladimir Putin needs the figure of Stalin and Stalinist practices, and what they have to do with Ukraine. Read the interview on our website:
First photo: ukrainian family suffered from Putin Second photo: russian family suffered from Putin
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Is it not indicative of the issues we’ve been raising, that Navalnaya did not mention Ukraine once in her #Oscars speech? If you really want this war to end, why would you ignore the big massive elephant in the room when you get an opportunity to speak out on such a platform?
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‘Navalny’ not only being nominated but also winning an Oscar while
refused to provide President Zelensky with just a few minutes to speak about russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine clearly demonstrates how screwed up, morally corrupt, and unfair this world is.
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The winner!
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The Academy
@TheAcademy
Congratulations to ‘Navalny,’ this year’s Best Documentary Feature Film! #Oscars95
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I hope that the success of Navalny at the Oscars helps to highlight the plight of other imprisoned Russian activists as well, plus Russia’s many other assassination attempts using chemical weapons ar home and abroad.
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Eliot Higgins
@EliotHiggins
Mar 4
It’s 5 years since the Skripal poisonings in Salisbury, and, for Bellingcat, the first in a series of investigations that would eventually lead to uncovering more than a dozen assassination attempts by the Russian state. We started here:
https://bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu
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Ukraine war: Life in Mariupol under Russian occupation
Heroes get their well-deserved moments of peace. #Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineWillWin #Ukrainian #RussiaIsCollapsing #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussiaIsLosing
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The 14-year-old Catholic Polish girl Czesława Kwoka was murdered in Auschwitz with a phenol injection to the heart exactly 80 years ago today.
The happiest morning: when daddy has come back alive. #UkraineWar
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That’s how we see things in #Ukraine. #Slava_Ukraini #StandWithUkraine
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I conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine upon Oleksandr Matsiyevsky. A Ukrainian warrior. A man who will be known and remembered forever. For his bravery, for his confidence in Ukraine and for his “Glory to Ukraine!”. Glory to the Hero! Glory to the Heroes! Glory to Ukraine!
EsperanzaProductions Retweeted
Russian Ship Loaded With Military Equipment Enters Black Sea – significant because loaded in #Syria at #Russia’s naval base at Tartus & begs question is #Putin so short withdrawing weapons used slaughtering Syrians with #Assad to slaughter in #Ukraine?
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Russia and its blanket bombings in Syria…must never be forgotten
12th March 2023
A chilling reminder of the horror perpetrated by #Assad with over 150,000 disappeared like #MazenAlHumada & why the UN under
in continuing to ignore his regime misappropriating aid helping to fund his horror against civilians is making UN complicit #EndImpunity
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Marc Nelson
@Marcnelsonart
12th May 2023
Sketch. My friend #MazenAlHamada endured unimaginable terror and pain while being tortured by the #Assad regime for delivering baby formula to a besieged city. Upon release, Mazen spent ever waking moment exposing #Assad #Putin #CrimesAgainsHumanity . Missing 1,113 days.
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The Moscow authorities began to cut down forests in order to place air defense systems in the Russian capital. Active deforestation began after the New Year in several districts of Moscow. #RussianUkrainianWar Source: an investigation by The Insider
The self-proclaimed president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko met on March 13 with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, BelTA reported. They signed a roadmap agreement on bilateral cooperation for the next three years.
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Who Watches the Watchers? 