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The Crimean Platform 2019: take back Crimea from Russia
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Together they spent years lobbying Congress to expand the scope of those sanctions to cover all human rights abuses in Russia and beyond. To this day, the Magnitsky Act hangs like the sword of Damocles over the heads of Putin’s cronies
euronews.com What is the Magnitsky Act and why is the EU planning one of its own? Many countries now have a ‘Magnitsky law’ that allows sanctions on foreign officials suspected of human rights abuses. Now the EU is
Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
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3rd June 2023
Good to see
in Kyiv. Estonia is a great friend of ours. Ukraine’s NATO accession and sanctions on Russia’s missile and drone industry were two main topics. NATO: working on a step forward in Vilnius. Sanctions: Russian industry of missile terror must be stopped.
New set of illegal (and really funny) sanctions – now against Moldavia. Sign of Trudeau’s regime diplomatic bankruptcy and inability to think on its own for the sake of pleasing its neo-Nazi clients in Kiev.
President Zelensky is asking #Ukraine’s parliament to approve 50 years-long sanctions for #Iran, because it’s supplying Russia with drones & military equipment for the war. Would include ban on all trade with Iran, investments & transferring technologies
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Chinese drone manufacturer DJI stopped selling its products in Russia and Ukraine after the Kremlin’s 2022 invasion — yet its drones have still ended up on battlefields. How? We reveal how Russian firms are importing them via Kazakhstan.
3rd June 2023
Ambassador Yuriy Filatov is High Level Z . Q.Why is he in ? A. Because he’s a trusted Henchman of Putin President Hollande made an unplanned trip to Moscow in 2014 while travelling from Kazakhstan Filatov was dispatched to greet him 1/2
Kazakhstan’s President declines Lukashenko’s offer to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus
May 31 is the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression and Famine in Kazakhstan The famine in Kazakhstan in 1931-1933 had terrible consequences and was popularly called “asharshylyq”. Millions of people around the world became victims of the communist regime.
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At Shangri-la Dialogue #SLD2023, Dr Pål Jonson, Minister for Defence, Sweden highlighted the importance of protecting undersea infrastructures – internet cables, power cables and oil pipelines. Mentioned Nordstream pipeline sabotage.
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2nd June 2023
Lawrence Wilkerson, former aide to Sec of State Colin Powell, says the US is using Ukraine to enrich the weapon makers & to weaken Germany & EU “Lockheed’s going to get a lot richer. Its profits are obscene.Since we took out nordstream, Germany’s energy costs are 9 times greater”
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Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings |
IMAGINE THAT: Yevgeny Prigozhin says that 99% of his troops have withdrawn from Bakhmut… but complains that while retreating, he found the roads had been laid with hundreds of anti-personnel and anti-vehicle mines– all put there by his friends at Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
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2nd June 2023
Prigozhin says “no provocations experienced from the Ukrainian military, but what about the OTHER side – on the retreat from Bakhmut we found our route was mined with hundreds of land mines, laid down by (Russia’s) MoD.”
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In yet another angry social media post, Yevgeny Prigozhin said there had been no ‘provocations’ from Ukrainian forces but ‘surprises awaited us on the other side.’
“Our ambulance services play a crucial role in saving lives and minimizing injuries during the transportation from emergency sites to hospitals. Despite the ongoing war by the regime and Russia, along with the damaged infrastructure and the prevalence of epidemics in northwestern…
2nd June 2023
Prigozhin accused “representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation” of mining the retreat routes of mercenaries from Bakhmut. The head of the “Wagner” PMC said that there were “surprises” waiting for the mercenaries on the retreat routes: “hundreds of…
2nd June 2023
Eight European countries have joined the “fighter jet coalition,” which will train Ukrainian pilots. These countries include the U.K., the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Portugal, and France.
2nd June 2023
In 2022, Russia’s federal orphan database grew by 2,450 new files in excess of the average number of new records over the past six years. At least some of the children offered up for adoption and foster care in Russia were forcibly removed from Ukraine.
An Arctic welcome Russia’s orphan listings have abruptly increased in number. In their midst,…
According to Ukraine’s National Information Bureau data, almost 20,000 Ukrainian children (including but not limited to orphans) have been forcibly taken to Russia and Russian-occupied areas of…
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Meet Ilan Shor — Moldovan oligarch and politician who was found guilty of taking part in a bank fraud that stripped Moldova of 12% of its GDP.
tells the story of Ilan Shor and his pro-Kremlin party.
novayagazeta.eu Wrecking Moldova A portrait of Ilan Shor, the key pro-Kremlin politician in Moldova who led the country’s most recent anti-government demonstrations
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3rd June 2023
Protests are again taking place in #Moldova. Activists of pro-Russian parties oppose the “rewriting of history” and the cancellation of the celebration of May 9th.
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The website of the environmental organization #Greenpeace has been blocked in #Russia. Previously, its activities were recognized as “undesirable” by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is also recognized in Russia as a… Show more
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3rd June 2023
#Zelenskyy said that #Ukraine is ready for a counteroffensive.
Who Watches the Watchers? 