The first block meeting of the group was held within the framework of the "Training of Media Actors" program in one of the rest areas of Aghveran. The topics of the first meeting were more relevant from the point of view of understanding the ambiguous reality of today's Armenian news, maintaining clarity and ethics in journalistic activity. While the materials of the seminars were extensive, they were interactive in nature,
They are courageous: young people who protest in Russia against the war in Ukraine face severe penalties. They serve as a deterrent for imitators. ‘Do you need a president like that?’ These words were written on leaflets by 15-year-old Arseniy Turbin from Livny and distributed through neighbours' letterboxes. On 20 June, he was sentenced to five years in prison by a military court in Moscow. The reason given was that
At the end of February 2023, 16-year-old gymnasium student Yegor Balazeikin smashed a Molotov cocktail against the wall of a military recruitment office in the Leningrad region. This is how the teenager decided to express his protest. In the summer of 2022, Egor's uncle died in Ukraine, who had gone on a special operation as a volunteer. After that, the young man became a convinced opponent of the SVO. The
Correctional Colony No. 19 in Volgograd Oblast, where four colony employees and four convicts were killed in a hostage situation on August 23, had the whole set of problems of the penal system. Convicts were abused here, and they slit their wrists; superiors were caught taking bribes; recruitment for the PMC “Wagner” and the regular army was conducted here - every fourth person died. Lattice under the stairs The high-security
Exactly four years after the uprising of the Belarusian democracy movement in the summer of 2020, the best-known exile organisation ‘Viasna’ presents its infographic ‘4 Years of Mass Repression’. Excerpts from it here at a glance Looking back: Spring 2020 - 3 presidential candidates eliminated Courageous and powerful men had indeed put themselves on the list of presidential candidates for the election in August 2020 in accordance with democratic
The youngest of them is 16 years old today. Following the Russian prisoner exchange, the OVD organisation currently counts 2747 politically motivated criminal proceedings, including 1015 against opponents of the war, 131 of which were against children and young people. 15-year-old Arsenij Turbin from Liwny was recently sentenced to 5 years in prison for distributing anti-war leaflets. Today he has to celebrate his 16th birthday behind prison walls. The
Statistics of Belarusian protest. 4 years of repression There are currently at least 1,385 political prisoners in prison. Some 65,000 people have been arrested in four years as part of political persecution. At least half a million Belarusians have fled Belarus 500,000 More than 74,000 cases of repression have been registered in four years: searches, short-term and long-term detentions, interrogations, etc. At least 6,971 people are known to be criminally
Russia exchanges spies for political prisoners According to data available to The Insider, the released political prisoners include Evan Gershkovich, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Paul Whelan, Ilya Yashin, Alsu Kurmasheva, Andrei Pivovarov, Oleg Orlov, Alexandra Skochilenko, Lilia Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeeva, Rico Krieger, Kevin Lik, Demuri Voronin, Vadim Ostanin, Patrick Schobel, and Herman Moyzhes. In return, Russia has received FSB operative Vadim Krasikov, along with multiple spies and fraudsters. HOW THE TALKS
Russian captivity kills! Ukrainian NGO Vitsche organises demonstration in Berlin 28/07/2024 16:00 - 18:00 At the crossroads near the Brandenburg Gate On 28 July, a mass demonstration will take place near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to demand justice for the estimated 28,000 Ukrainians, including civilians, being held in inhumane conditions by the Russian Federation. This event will also mark the tragic anniversary of the Olenivka prison massacre, in which
The German Foreign Ministry confirmed the information about the death sentence of German citizen Rico Krieger in Belarus According to the German Foreign Ministry in response to DW request, the department and the German Embassy in Minsk provide consular assistance to this person and work intensively with the Belarusian authorities in his interests. ‘The death penalty is a cruel and inhuman form of punishment, which Germany rejects under any circumstances,’