Natalia Pinchuk on behalf of her husband, jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski; the president of the Russian human rights organization Memorial, Yan Rachinsky; and the director of the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), Oleksandra Matviichuk, pose with their Nobel Peace Prize certificates and medals – Credits: @SERGEI GAPON OSLO.- The winners of Ukraine, Russia … Read more
The Russian president also stated that the goal of the invasion of Ukraine was to protect breakaway regions and end military action against them. An economic forum in a remote Russian city was the setting chosen by Russian President Vladimir Putin to launch some of his strongest statements about the war in Ukraine and the … Read more
Vladimir Putin is accused of war crimes in Ukraine (REUTERS / Pavel Mikheyev) Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich and the peruvian Mario Vargas LlosaNobel Prize for Literature 2015 and 2010, respectively, warned against the “new Russian fascism” and the “intolerable authoritarianism” represented by Russian President Vladimir Putinin the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “We … Read more
A press worker is detained by Russian police during a protest in St. Petersburg (REUTERS / Stringer) Ivan Kolpakoveditor-in-chief of jellyfishone of Russia’s most popular independent media outlets, expected the government to block public access to its website every day since the war with Ukraine began. On Friday morning it finally happened. But then the … Read more
Will the Russian president press Vladimir Putin the nuclear button in the war against Ukraine? The BBC’s correspondent in Moscow, Steve Rosenberg, does not rule it out. Rosenberg acknowledges that many times he has thought: “Putin would never do this.” Then he goes and does it. “Surely he would never annex Crimea?” And he did. … Read more