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How the Russian Government Silences Wartime DissentJust days after invading Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia signed a censorship law that made it illegal to “discredit” the army. The indignities of the crackdown, and the long arm of the Russia law, is being lost in the numbers. Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesIn dry legalese, the court documents recount the Russian state’s case against these statements and protests. People’s “negative assessment” of the Russian military could adversely affect its performance, the court said, presenting a national security risk. And I very much don’t want this.”Sergei Platonov at district court in Moscow listening to his guilty verdict in November.

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☆ Moldova Blocks Access to Russia's Main News Agencies
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldova blocked access to the websites of major Russian news media including the Interfax and TASS news agencies on Monday, accusing them of taking part in an information war against the country. Moldova, a small country with a Romanian-speaking majority located between Ukraine and NATO-member Romania, has accused Moscow of trying to overthrow its pro-Western government since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Russian troops occupy a small, mainly Russian-speaking breakaway region, and Moldova's main opposition parties have long had close ties to Moscow. In a separate decree, Moldova also suspended the licenses of six domestic TV channels. Since June 2022, Moldova has already banned TV stations from broadcasting news and analysis programmes from Russia, allowing broadcasts in Russian of only entertainment shows and movies.

Persons: Maia Sandu, Dorin Recean, Aleksandr Tanas, Yuliia Dysa, Peter Graff Organizations: Interfax, TASS, NATO, Moldova's Intelligence, Security Service, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russian Foreign Ministry Locations: CHISINAU, Moldova, Romanian, Ukraine, Romania, Moscow, Russia, Republic Of Moldova

☆ Russia is charging families of dead soldiers $1,500 to get their bodies back, human-rights group claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Ukrainian human-rights group says Russian commanders are charging families to retrieve remains. Crimea SOS accused the Russians of charging some $1,500 to bring the bodies of dead soldiers home. However, there have been reported instances of Russian army officers being accused of mishandling the bodies of their dead troops. Russia's defense minister Sergei Shoigu claimed in September 2022 — almost a year ago — that 6,000 Russian soldiers died in the first six months of the war. Researchers working with the BBC said in August that more than 30,000 dead Russian soldiers had been identified by name, suggesting an overall death toll far larger.

Persons: Aleksandr, Sergei Shoigu, — Organizations: Russian, Service, New York Times, Times, BBC Locations: Crimea, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, Simferopol, Russian, Russia

☆ Conflict Erupts Among Russia’s Pro-War Bloggers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Valeriya Safronova | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Russia’s famously outspoken pro-war bloggers have begun turning on one another. Since the onset of the war, the bloggers’ close ties to the military have allowed them to become invaluable sources of information. But in recent days, the military blogosphere has erupted into a conflict of its own, with some analysts accusing one another of helping the Ukrainian government. “Who do you work for?” demanded one blogger, Aleksandr Talipov, denouncing pro-war Telegram channels for posting photos of supposed Ukrainian attacks on Russian-occupied Crimea. The online battle comes as the Russian military is pursuing a brutal campaign against Ukraine, keeping up the pressure on its grain exports and targeting civilian populations.

Persons: Russia’s, —, “, ”, Aleksandr Talipov Organizations: Ukraine Locations: Crimea

☆ A Russian prisoner-turned-soldier says he was brought to the front line without training and told to charge 'as far as we could go' into Ukrainian gunfire
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Russian soldier told the New York Times he was forced to charge enemy lines without training. The assaults are carried out by the Wagner Group, the New York Times reported. Half the soldiers in these assaults are wounded or killed, one soldier told the Times. By other estimates, about 70% of soldiers are wounded or killed in battalions with former convicts, military analysts told the Times. The White House said last month that the Wagner Group had about 40,000 convicts deployed to Ukraine as part of Russia's war against the Eastern European country.

After Ukrainian forces stage ambushes and cut off the key access route to the capital, Russian soldiers tell their relatives that the military strategy is failing. … That’s what we’re fucking going to do, it seems. “Frankly speaking, nobody understands why we have to fight this war," Sergey tells his girlfriend. Replay‘I’ll quit at once.’Frustrated by continuous setbacks and fearing for their lives, Russian soldiers say they are fed up with the military. As quickly as they came, the Russian soldiers in northern Kyiv withdrew, regrouped and pivoted east, where Russian-backed separatists have been waging war for over eight years.

☆ Ucraina vrea să înscrie Cernobîl în patrimoniul mondial UNESCO
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-13 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +5 min

Ucraina doreşte să includă zona de excludere Cernobîl, în care se află oraşul Pripiat din nord-vestul ţării, cu imobilele şi spaţiile sale de joacă abandonate, în patrimoniul mondial UNESCO. Ideea înscrierii zonei de excludere Cernobîl în patrimoniul UNESCO a fost propusă de noul ministru ucrainean al Culturii, Oleksandr Tkacenko, numit în această funcţie în urmă cu şase luni, după o îndelungată carieră în industria de televiziune. „Este unul dintre teritoriile cele mai emblematice ale Ucrainei” şi trebuie să fie „conservat pentru omenire”, a subliniat oficialul ucrainean. Anul trecut, succesul mondial al miniseriei TV "Chernobyl", produsă de postul american HBO, a determinat apariţia unei noi generaţii de vizitatori, mari amatori de selfie-uri. Situl ucrainean ar putea să atragă chiar şi un milion de turişti pe an, a declarat, entuziasmat, Aleksandr Tkacenko.

Persons: Franţa, Deşi, Chernobîl, Aleksandr Tkacenko Organizations: UNESCO, Agerpres, american HBO, Ministerul Culturii Locations: Ucraina, Pripiat, ţării, Kiev, Educaţie, Ucrainei, Taj Mahal, India, Stonehenge, Saint, Michel, Luxemburgului, Cernobîl, U.R.S.S, american

☆ Ucraina vrea să înscrie Cernobâl în patrimoniul mondial UNESCO; Zona nu va mai putea fi locuită cel puțin 24.000 de ani
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-13 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +4 min

„Din păcate, acest loc nu are un statut oficial”, a continuat el, care speră că această iniţiativă ar fi de ajutor „pentru dezvoltarea de infrastructuri turistice”. Ideea înscrierii zonei de excludere Cernobîl în patrimoniul UNESCO a fost propusă de noul ministru ucrainean al Culturii, Oleksandr Tkacenko, numit în această funcţie în urmă cu şase luni, după o îndelungată carieră în industria de televiziune. „Este unul dintre teritoriile cele mai emblematice ale Ucrainei” şi trebuie să fie „conservat pentru omenire”, a subliniat oficialul ucrainean. Situl ucrainean ar putea să atragă chiar şi un milion de turişti pe an, a declarat, entuziasmat, Aleksandr Tkacenko. Ministrul ucrainean spune că acum „a sosit momentul” să facem acest lucru.

Persons: Franţa, Deşi, Chernobîl, Aleksandr Tkacenko Organizations: UNESCO, Agerpres, american HBO, Ministerul Culturii Locations: Kiev, Educaţie, Ucrainei, Taj Mahal, India, Stonehenge, Saint, Michel, Luxemburgului, Cernobîl, U.R.S.S, Ucraina, american

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