Month: March 2022

Євросоюз

Navalny Urges More Protests Against Russia’s Invasion 

Jailed opposition politician Alexey Navalny has again called for protests against Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, saying the response of Russians to the war “will largely define Russia’s place in the history of the 21st century.” Navalny, the Kremlin critic who is currently serving a 2 1/2-year sentence on what his supporters and Western legal analysts call a trumped-up fraud charge, wrote on Twitter on March 8 that anger against the war was building inside Russia and “the anti-war momentum will keep growing across the society, so the anti-war protests should not be halted under any circumstances.”   “It’s one …

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Russia a No-show at Court Hearing on Ukraine Conflict 

Russia did not show up to a key international court hearing aimed at putting a legal stop to fighting in Ukraine that is creating Europe’s biggest refugee crisis in years. At issue is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim of “genocide” to justify his invasion of Ukraine. The empty seats allocated to Russia’s legal team at the International Court of Justice were telling. They gave ammunition to Ukraine’s envoy, Anton Korynevych, as he laid out his country’s arguments against Moscow to The Hague-based body. “The fact that Russia’s seats are empty speaks loudly. They are not here in this court of …

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Russia’s Vaunted Influence Operations Bogged Down with Ukraine

Russia’s efforts to sway the opinions of people across the world about the righteousness of its invasion of Ukraine appears to be mirroring the effort of some of its forces on the ground – despite bringing lots of firepower, the Kremlin’s influence operations seem to be stalling, unable to penetrate key audiences. Much of Moscow’s influence operation has been carried out in plain sight, with Russian-backed media outlets like RT, Sputnik, Ria Novosti, Izvestia and others pumping out stories and social media posts in Russian, English, Spanish, Turkish and Arabic. But research by Omelas, a Washington-based firm that tracks influence …

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Half a Million Ukrainian Children Flee Russian Invasion

Vulnerable children constitute a large proportion of the more than 1 million Ukrainians who have fled Russia’s invasion of their country and heavy bombardment of residential areas, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.   Half a million children, some unaccompanied, have crossed into Poland and other neighboring countries, according to UNICEF, which says refugee minors are at high risk of suffering violence, abuse and exploitation.     Overall, the exodus of Ukrainians is producing what many fear will be Europe’s largest refugee crises since World War II.   In a statement, Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, …

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