Video footage of the river in Penza, western Russia show its bright gaudy green colouring which has led residents to question what has caused it. Other sources have suggested it is industrial waste By Graeme Murray, News Reporter. Will Stewart, … Continue reading Mysterious ‘toxic waste’ fears as Russia river turns into ‘poisonous bright green creek’
It controls most of the market for mineral extraction, refining, and exports. HuffPost Newsroom The struggle to control the main resources of the planet, which are becoming increasingly scarce, has kept the main world powers in a situation of permanent tension and … Continue reading The only country that has the four elements necessary for a civilization to survive
By Uliana Pavlova, CNN | 30 Nov. 2022 Russia’s upper house of parliament unanimously voted on Wednesday to toughen a controversial law banning what the bill describes as “LGBT propaganda,” making it apply to Russians of all ages. The bill has to be signed into law by Russian President Vladimir Putin after being passed by the Federation Council. It passed the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, on November 24. The law proposes to ban all Russians from promoting or “praising” homosexual relationships or publicly suggesting that they are “normal.” It also prohibits “propaganda” of pedophilia and gender reassignment in advertising, books, films. The original version of the … Continue reading Russia’s upper house of parliament passes tougher ban on ‘LGBT propaganda’
The controversial Russian ban against promoting so-called “gay propaganda” looks set to be extended to all adults. The move represents a toughening of an existing 2013 law, which makes providing information about being LGBT to children a criminal offence. Those convicted face large fines for promoting what Russia calls “non-traditional sexual relations”. The initial approval of the extension was voted through by the Russian State Duma unanimously. Earlier this week, officials had urged politicians in Russia’s lower house of parliament to enact the extension – portraying it as part of a broader battle over civilisational values with the West and linking it to the decision to … Continue reading Russia to ban sharing LGBT ‘propaganda’ with adults as well as children
Popular band Kis-Kis sparked a defiant and rare public anti-war protest as hundreds of concert-goers chanted ‘f*** the war’ in Putin’s home city of St Petersburg Fearless Russian female rock stars sparked a defiant “f*** the war” protest in opposition to Vladimir Putin ’s bloody invasion of Ukraine. Popular band Kis-Kis sparked a rare public display of opposition to the ongoing war in Ukraine in Putin’s own home city of St Petersburg. The band has two upcoming performances in Ivanovo on Thursday and Moscow this weekend, which will test the resolve of Russian authorities whether they cancel them or not. Founded in 2018, the band is famed for its … Continue reading Brave Russian female rock stars spark rare and defiant ‘f**k the war’ protest at concert
Moscow | Jan 13, 2022 The Kremlin toughened in 2021 the crackdown on the most critical Russian voices with laws against the opposition, NGOs and the free press, according to the annual report of Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the situation of human rights in the world. The highlight was the arrest and conviction earlier this year of opposition leader Alexei Navalni, who returned to Russia after being poisoned months earlier allegedly by agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB, formerly KGB). Several human rights defenders had to leave Russia due to pressure from the authorities and security services, such as lawyer Ivan Pavlov and activists … Continue reading Russia toughened crackdown on critical voices in 2021, says HRW
Kazajistán: Minuto a minuto Moscow | Jan 5, 2022 The Kazakh president requested the peacekeeping troops as an uprising, sparked by a gas price increase in the resource-rich Central Asian nation, headed toward a fifth day. A Russian-led military alliance said late Wednesday that it would send peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan at the invitation of the country’s president to help put down a growing protest movement there. The current chairman of the alliance, the Armenian prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, said in a statement that the troops would be stationed there only “for a limited time period,” until order could be restored. ALMATY, Jan 6 (Reuters) – A Russia-led … Continue reading Russia-Allied Forces to Intervene as Unrest Sweeps Kazakhstan
Tiraspol (Moldova) | Dec 4, 2021 No place preserves the essence of the USSR as the Moldovan Transnistria, which proudly displays the hammer and sickle, and where thirty years later the figure of Lenin still presides over the main state buildings. “No past, no future”, says a poster of the Sheriff corporation, lord and master of the pro-Russian enclave, in its capital, Tiraspol. This territory remained loyal to the USSR and its Constitution until the last moment (1991), when the fifteen Soviet republics had already broken ties with the then tenant of the Kremlin, Mikhail Gorbachev. THE HAMMER AND SICKLE ON THE SKIN Thirty years after … Continue reading Welcome to the USSR
Russia | Nov 25, 2021 Russia Should End Discrimination Against Women in Custody Cases and Beyond This week, the European Court on Human Rights ruled that Luisa Tapayeva, a Chechen woman, should be reunited with her four daughters who were taken from her after their father died. Under local customs, children are “owned” by the father and his family. The ruling means the world to Tapayeva and to many other women in Russia’s North Caucasus who are struggling to regain custody of or at least visit with their children. Finding Russia in violation of Tapayeva’s right to family life and the prohibition of discrimination, the Court … Continue reading European Court Rules to Reunite Chechen Woman with Her Children
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