This war is destroying Russia’s Soviet inheritance. They don’t have the ability to replace what is lost and this is what they have decided to spend it on. But, until they decide to stop, we must continue to insure all of it is destroyed.
What a stupid move by the Russian state. If they’re so convinced that Putin will remain in power, they’d hold elections. Navalny is in jail and the opposition will probably try to mount an attack, but unless their domestic security services know something they’re not telling, it’s quite baffling why they’d openly admit to such weakness.
I mean, they’ve embedded Zelensky’s move to postpone elections in their own propanda.
For a few days already, 0x815 and another user posting news about Ukraine are getting in the range of -5 to -10 within minutes after a submission or comment.
Either automated or someone with a few accounts and RSS is following them around.
Ladies and gentlemen, there will be no comments from the representative of the State Prosecution today. That’s it for today, most likely — there’s no point in waiting. Follow this chat, our website and Telegram channel to get official information on Navalny’s sentence. So far, to date, we have no further comments,” Vadim Polezhaev, the Moscow City Court’s deputy officer in charge of media and public relations, told reporters following the August 4 hearing.
I hope that people in Russia who think that Stalin was cool are okay with Russia also meandering towards the kind of political repression that existed in Russia then, because that does seem to be part of what they're likely getting.
Under Putin criticising Stalin is seen as an attack against Russia. Now there is half a generation of young people not aware of any wrongdoings by him. But it is not only the lack of education. You always have the wilfully ignorant who dwell in romanticised versions of the past or those who knowingly act in malice. The latter is really funny to me. They kinda think they are exempt from any oppression until the shit show inevitably hits them too.
Yeah, and the vast majority are refugees fleeing the war, willingly to Russia (almost like there's a civil war going on??). It's like saying Poland has kidnapped a million Ukrainian children, that's the equivalent drivel here.
Russia intervened in the Ukrainian civil war with the recognition of the two breakaway republics. But my point with the civil war comment was that Ukraine has millions of people who are siding with Russia and will escape the war by going to Russia (and bringing their kids with them).
The report [by tbe OSCE] noted that forcibly deported children were placed in an unfamiliar environment far removed from Ukrainian language, culture, customs, and religion. It also found that many such children were exposed to military training and “to pro-Russian information campaigns often amounting to targeted reeducation.”
The report also underscores how changes in Russian law enabled authorities to swiftly give Russian citizenship to Ukrainian children, facilitating their guardianship and adoption by Russian families in Russia, even though many of the children may have living relatives, including in Ukraine.
The report [by Yale Universty researchers] describes a system of holding [children] facilities that stretch from the Black Sea coast to Siberia. […]
Ukrainian officials say Russia has evacuated thousands of Ukrainian children without parental consent […]
The Ukrainian children transported to Russia range in age from teens to toddlers […]
“In some cases there is adoption, other cases summer camp programs where the kids were slated to return home and never did,” he says, “and in some cases they are re-education camps.”
The death toll in Kryvyi Rih has risen to four people. One of them was a 10-year-old child. A total of 31 people, including four children, are currently reported to have suffered traumatic injuries.
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