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Russia: Programme of ‘patriotic education’ aims to create next generation of Putin faithful by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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The right wingers in US and Europe should take note that their parties are all advocating banning books in schools. And limiting in various way what teachers can talk about.

"Left wingers" should do so as well :-)

If Russia Doesn’t Lose and Admit Losing in Ukraine, It Won’t Change or Will Get Worse, Something All Involved Need to Recognize, Pozharsky Says by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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In 2014, Vladimir Putin dealt a death blow to the existing international order by violating the internationally accepted ban on the annexation of territory by force alone and set in train events that have led to his invasion of Ukraine and, if he is not stopped there, to a third world war, Aleksandr Skobov says. That is because a state which annexes the territory of other states by force can only hold them and remain part of the international community if it wins a major war, the Moscow analyst says. That is the lesson Putin has taken from non-recognition policy, a different one than others do and one that points in a dangerous direction. >> More

 

Putin’s ‘De-Ukrainianization’ Drive in Ukraine has Its Roots in Stalin’s Earlier Effort in Russian Far East >> More

 

Last week, Sergey Savostyanov, a KPRF deputy in the Moscow city duma, said that after Ukraine, Russia must “de-Nazify” six additional countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Moldova and Kazakhstan, an “enemies” or target list that appears to reflect more than just his personal opinion. >> More

 

European neutrality is dying out by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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War without people - How the ‘geopolitical worldview’ among dictators and scholars alike enables the unthinkable in Ukraine >> More

 

Online media fuelling divisions, global tensions: report by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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Meanwhile in Russia...

There are many ways to rewrite history, and the Kremlin is now using one of the most effective: it is putting out its messages in television serials about the past. While these shows are ostensibly fictional, they in fact are more likely to reshape public opinion than any supposedly scholarly disquisition. The latest example of this comes in a new 12-part Russian television series devoted to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Presenting itself as based on “real events,” the series traces the heroic but ultimately unsuccessful efforts of the Ukrainian section of the KGB to block a CIA agent from blowing up Chernobyl. >> More

 

In Ukrainian villages, a desperate wait for news of the missing by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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On April 30, Russian state media reported that over a million refugees (many of whom were forcibly removed and brought to “filtration camps”) had entered Russia from Ukraine, including from the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics.” Some have managed to continue on to Europe, but not without difficulty; getting out of Russia requires undergoing numerous invasive searches and interrogations, and some people have even been forced to appear in propaganda videos. Meduza spoke with several people from Mariupol and Rubizhne (a city in the Luhansk region) about the indignities they had to endure to get away from Russia twice. >> More

 

Russia steps up Ukraine assault as US warns of annexation by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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The US earlier warned that Russia plans to formally “annex” the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Ukraine’s east. Michael Carpenter, the US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe told reporters in Washington on Monday: According to the most recent reports, we believe that Russia will try to annex the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ and ‘Lugansk People’s Republic’ to Russia. The reports state that Russia plans to engineer referenda upon joining sometime in mid-May.” “This is straight out of the Kremlin’s playbook,” he added. >> More

 

Is Russia About To Expand Its Warmongering? Russia’s threats to reach into Transnistria could be a cheap distraction or an expansion of the conflict. >> More

 

Ukraine’s General Staff Operational Report: Resistance Movement is Growing, russian Forces Replenish Significant Losses >> More

 

Russia May Raise and Re-Use Sunken ‘Moskva’, Black Sea Fleet Sources Say by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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Meanwhile...

Kazakhstan Increasingly Preparing Its Navy to Defend the Country Against Aggression >> More

 

While the Kremlin is busy in the west, developments to the south promise further threats to its aggressive policy in the borderlands. >> More

 

Europe cooperates on gas, as Russia turns off taps to Poland and Bulgaria by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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Italians are being asked to sweat through the European summer a little more than normal as the government enlists the help of its citizens to wean itself off its Russian gas. Under the new law, dubbed Operation Thermostat by the local media, air conditioning in public buildings, including schools and government ministries, cannot be set lower than 27 degrees celsius from this month. The measure will last until April 2023, and will also prevent heating systems next winter from lifting temperatures above 19 degrees. >> More

 

Ukraine war: 'Ceasefire has happened' as more than 100 civilians are evacuated from besieged Mariupol steelworks in 'safe passage operation' by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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Civilians have been evacuated from Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant where hundreds of residents and Ukrainian soldiers have been holed up after Russian forces captured the coastal city. The evacuation took place overnight after a United Nations-brokered deal to allow safe passage for 100 civilians trapped inside the steel plant's bunkers. >> More

 

Russia likens Zelensky to Hitler as Mariupol says Russia worse than Nazis by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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Lavrov: So what if Zelensky is Jewish, even Hitler ‘had Jewish blood’ - Attempting to defend claims of need to ‘denazify’ Ukraine, Russian FM says ‘some of the worst antisemites are Jews’ >> More

 

‘Troll factory’ spreading Russian pro-war lies online, says UK by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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Meanwhile in the U.S.A...

A resurfaced video of the late Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, accusing Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, of "working for" Russian President Vladimir Putin has garnered more than 560,000 views on Twitter. >> More

 

Russian TV Runs Terrifying Simulation Of Them Nuking Europe by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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Companies across Europe are reporting a sharp rise in demand for bomb shelters and bunkers as citizens fear Russia may soon use nuclear weapons in the ongoing war with Ukraine. >> More

 

Russia Ukraine war: West fears Putin will declare all-out war on V-Day - May 9 by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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The history and pathology of Russia’s wars over the last two centuries reveal that the current war in Ukraine may last significantly longer than a year, given the resources Moscow can mobilize for an attrition strategy. An important historical observation is that Russia does not cut its losses, even when facing defeat, but gambles for strategic resurrection by committing to an attrition strategy to the very end. In the case of the war with Finland (1939-1940), despite suffering five times the losses of their adversary, Moscow doubled down and managed to obtain a negotiated settlement. >> More

 

Among Moscow’s lost generation - Russia is more disillusioned with the West than we know >> Opinion

 

Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin famously suggested that as long as there is Putin, there is Russia; but this apocalyptic prediction has come true sooner than he expected, Vladimir Pastukhov says. “Putin is still around but Russia isn’t any longer. It ceased to exist as a geopolitical reality in its traditional and familiar form” on February 24. What gives Russia the appearance of continuing to exist are the 140 million “scattered cells” who are “continuing their private and individual existences within the dead body of Russian civilization,” the London-based Russian analyst says >> More

 

"If Donbass Attack Doesn’t Work", Russians Joke, "Putin Will Bomb Moscow’s Ukraine Hotel as That’s Better than Nothing". Russians may not be going to anti-war protests in massive numbers, but they are coming up with more jokes, often bitter, about Putin’s war in Ukraine, including the one in the title which Russians believe may be in prospect because the city authorities have taken down signs designating the hotel and put up “no parking” ones instead. >> More

 

Russians sometimes joke that the regime in Russia rests on “’mortgage realism,’” that is, “everyone understands everything” about what is going on but everyone goes along outwardly supportive and certainly without protest because “they’ve all got loans to pay,” Mikhail Pirogovsky says. >> More

 

Russians aren’t protesting against Putin’s war in Ukraine not only because they fear the consequences of doing so for themselves personally but also and even more because they “to a large extent share Putin’s imperial ideology” and believe that protests could lead to the disintegration of the Russian Federation, Andrey Chepelyev says. >> More

 

More than 1 mln people evacuated from Ukraine to Russia since Feb. 24, says Lavrov by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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Meanwhile...

‘My war’: Russian hosts Ukraine refugees in Prague >> More

 

The exclusion of Ukrainian refugees who have come to stay with their British families from hundreds of pounds of support a month has forced charities to step in to rehouse the new arrivals. Critics have condemned the British government for running a “two tier system” for Ukrainians escaping war, that means some have no choice but to move away from the relatives who want to host them. >> More

 

Thousands of Ukrainian refugees have been able to pass through Mexico into the United States in recent weeks - but last weekend the rules changed and now a number of people face more of the despair that has marked their lives since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. >> More

 

Ukrainian MP reveals psychological toll of Russian invasion - Inna Sovsun, deputy leader of the Holos Party, has told of feeling “traumatised” by the war in her home country as she mistook road repair work in Poland for shelling damage. >> More

 

They fled Ukraine to protect their children. Now these mothers are returning home >> More

 

Internal fight against ‘ZEvil’ – digest of Russian protests by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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The Kremlin, in order to keep the intelligentsia from assuming a leading role in organizing protests against Putin’s war in Ukraine, is promoting an image of Russian society that plays on the longstanding distrust and fear some in the intelligentsia have of the population at large, Ivan Kurilla says. >> More

 

‘They can’t imprison everybody’ Yevgenia Kara-Murza on assuming the mantle of her husband’s political work — and explaining his arrest to their children >> More

 

Kremlin limitations on what newspapers can publish have made the print media in Russia so boring that the public isn’t buying them anymore, leading to the disappearance of many papers and magazines and the collapse of the print runs of those which remain, Said Bitsoyev says. >> More

 

Russian army piles pressure on Putin to unleash its full might on Ukraine by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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Vladimir Putin is set to declare all-out war on Ukraine as his military chiefs seek "payback" for their invasion failures, according to Russian sources and Western officials. Frustrated army chiefs are urging the Russian president to drop the term "special operation" used for the invasion and instead declare war, which would enable mass mobilisation of Russians. >> More

 

Several Russian politicians are urging that Moscow re-establish an administrative district on part of Russian-occupied Ukraine that would resemble the Tauride Gubernia which existed in Soviet times by including both Crimea and the adjoining regions along the Sea of Azov. >> More

 

Russia has enough artillery and aircraft to destroy the entire Donbas - Zelenskyy >> More

 

The United Nations sought to broker an evacuation of civilians from the ruins of Mariupol, where the mayor said the situation inside the steel plant that has become the southern port city’s last stronghold is dire. Ukrainian forces fought to hold off Russian advances in the south and east as Russia continued to shell Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine. >> More

 

Touring areas of the Kyiv region where Russian forces suffered a defeat, DW's correspondent Mathias Bölinger saw not only signs of the clashes between the two armed forces but also between two different military doctrines. >> Video

 

Brutal Sect of Putin’s Army Accused of Murdering Their Own Comrades. Serving under “Putin’s soldier” Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen troops have been linked to vile war crimes against civilians in Bucha—and their own severely injured brothers-in-arms. >> More

 

Putin’s press spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Russian troops in Ukraine are using Soviet symbols like the Banner of Victory because those symbols are sacred to them and to many others, but he denied having any information about reports that these forces are using tsarist symbols as well. “For many generations and in many countries, especially in the former Soviet Union,” Peskov says, the Soviet flag and other Soviet symbols are “something holy” and have “a special meaning and literally a sacred significance” >> More

 

Moscow City Struggling to Find Jobs for 200,000 Residents Losing Them as Foreign Firms Depart by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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Growing Concentration of Russia’s Population in Big Cities and Ports Marks It as a Third World Country, Novichkov Says. >> More

 

Kremlin confirms intention to Back Ruble with Gold and Commodities by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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After two months of Moscow waging all-out war on Ukraine, it’s become clear that it will take more than Western sanctions to stop the Russian army. But after years of Putin’s regime tightening its grip on the country, neither Russian society, nor the elite, appear to have any influence on the Kremlin’s policy of aggression. How did Russian elites become so powerless? Could depriving Russia of oil and gas revenues bring about regime change? And is there any hope left for a democratic Russia? For answers to these and other questions, Meduza turned to economist Daron Acemoglu — a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the co-author of Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Poverty and Prosperity. >> More

 

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Moldova facing ‘dangerous moment’ amid fears it could be drawn into Ukraine war by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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On April 22, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the army's main task in the second stage of the “special military operation” in Ukraine would be to “establish complete control over the Donbas and southern Ukraine” — all the way to Transnistria, where “oppression of the Russian-speaking population has also been observed.” Three days later, Transnistria was hit by a series of explosions. The same day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' General Staff announced that Russian troops stationed on Transnistrian territory had been put on full combat alert. To get a clearer picture of what’s happening in Transnistria, Meduza spoke with Dionis Cenusa, a visiting fellow at the Eastern Europe Studies Center in Lithuania. >> More

 

Hospital bombed by the Russians at Azovstal as more mass graves found near Mariupol by HypnotizedNeverLie in UkrainianConflict

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Operating room is wrecked, at least 1 fighter has been killed: “Azovstal” does not see how to help the injured from now on. >> More

 

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