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There is “evidence that deported children had faced a process of ‘russification’ through re-education in Russian language, culture and history", a resolution of the Council of Europe’s parliament says this week. The transfers of Ukrainian children were “clearly being planned and organised in a systematic way’ as...
The most famous former footballer from Ukraine, who won the Ballon d’Or in 2004 and the Europen Champions League with Milan before he also coached his country at Euro 2020, tells about his visits at hospitals in his homeland, and his push to raise funds for victims like the 6-year old Maryna, the first child in Ukraine to...
Though most of Russia’s attacks were intercepted, at least 17 people were killed in the city of Uman, including two children when a missile hit a residential building. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, tweeted: “Missile strikes killing innocent Ukrainians in their sleep, including a … child, is Russia’s...
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The Gay Games, an international LGBTQ+ sport and cultural event, are set to begin in November 2023 in Hong Kong and Mexico. However, pro-Beijing Hawish networks wanted the authorities to step in and scrap the event. Junius Ho, one of Hong Kong’s most vocal anti-LGBTQ+ politicians, launched an online petition on April 20...
Volodymyr Saldo, a notorious puppet of the Kremlin in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, is listed as the owner of a UK company registered in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine since November last year, five months after his name was added to the sanctions list.
Observers have warned that the expanded law, to take effect on 1 July, increases the risk faced by foreign individuals and entities working in China, particularly those in key technology, research and monitoring and other potentially sensitive sectors.
Internet shutdowns or disruptions in connection with armed conflicts and mass demonstrations have led to people not being able to communicate or report abuses, which has caused further insecurity, violence and violations of human rights. Off.guard allows private individuals, journalists and human rights defenders to share...
Dong Yuyu, who often met with foreign diplomats, academics and journalists in the course of his work, was detained on February 2022 while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat at a hotel in Beijing. His family was notified in March 2023 that his case would be sent to trial, though the charges remain unclear.
Specialized equipment for signals intelligence (SIGINT) has been mounted in recent weeks on the roof of Russian facilities across Europe, from Warsaw to Budapest, Stockholm, or Brussels, which is linked to a massive network of espionage and capable of picking up the national security signals of the countries concerned. Russian...
The Swiss government was responding to a statement by the Russian embassy regarding the work of a Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) journalist covering the war in Ukraine. In Russia, wrote the embassy, the journalist’s coverage was liable to land him a financial penalty, a prison term, or a period of forced labour.
Two former fighters gave interviews to an exiled human rights activist who runs the website Gulagu.net, which reports on corruption and torture in Russia. Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev describe their actions in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, including executing 60 wounded prisoners, some of whom were Russian...
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The chair of the defence select committee questioned an account given by Wallace to parliament of a dangerous incident which occurred last September and was revealed in a leak of top secret Pentagon documents. According to the papers, a Russian pilot had locked on to the British aircraft in international airspace and, believing...
Under a new political agreement, the EU aims to double its current global market share to 20 percent in 2030 and mobilize more than 43 billion euros ($47.2 billion) in public and private investments to feed Europe’s growing appetite for chips. Asian industry, especially firms in China and Taiwan, currently dominate the...
The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum is the 83rd group to be “undesirables”. Among others are Transparency International, a leading global anti-corruption network, and The Andrei Sakharov Foundation, an American organization working to safeguard and promote the legacy of the Nobel-prize winning physicist who became a leader of...
After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, authorities began using facial recognition to prevent people from protesting in the first place, according to a new report. Western technology has aided this crackdown.
On April 17, 2023, the Moscow City Court convicted Vladimir Kara-Murza on combined charges of treason, dissemination of “false information” about the conduct of the Russian Armed Forces, and involvement with an “undesirable organization”, and sentenced him to 25 years in maximum security prison with an additional fine of...
