Aleksandr Podrabinek: Pacifying the Aggressor and the Foreign Agents Club

17 December 2021 By Aleksandr Podrabinek  Sources: Facebook and Belsat TV New Year is coming and with it the time announced by Western intelligence communities of the supposed invasion by…

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Person of the Week: Oleg Kashintsev, Red Square pro-Navalny protester

Week-ending 24 December 2021  On 19 December 2021 Oleg Kashintsev, a retired Moscow police officer, was arrested after holding a single-person protest in Red Square to demand the release of…

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Legal Case of the Week: Dutch prosecutors request life sentences for four suspects on trial in absentia for 2014 downing of MH17 over Ukraine

Week-ending 24 December 2021 The aircraft involved, 9M-MRD, pictured in 2011 by Alan Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons On 22 December 2021 Dutch prosecutors requested life sentences for…

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Quote for the Week. HRW: “The Russian authorities are rapidly turning the internet in Russia into a zone of repression”

Week-ending 24 December 2021 “The Russian government is using its growing technological capacity to engage in nontransparent, unlawful, and extrajudicial restriction of digital rights in Russia. This past year’s dramatic…

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News of the Day: 28 December 2021

International Memorial: On 28 December 2021 Russia's Supreme Court ruled to close International Memorial. The lawsuit, filed by the Prosecutor General's Office, referred to a missing 'foreign agent' designation on some of the materials produced by International Memorial. This is only a formal…

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