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[Link] Vladimir Putin Explains Why State Media Is Better Than Wikipedia
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
“Of course, objective, important, in-depth information that’s been gathered properly and skillfully…this is in great demand,” Putin said, according to a translation of the video by journalist Kevin Rothrock. “And that’s why you can’t just use Wikipedia.
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[Link] How Russia Used the War in Ukraine to ‘Occupy’ Another Neighbouring Country
Read: 16/3/2022 www.vice.com
The Belarusian dictator’s complicity in letting his country be used by Russia to attack Ukraine has effectively turned Belarus into a Russian client state and amounts to an occupation, the country’s opposition says.
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[Link] ‘They were sent as cannon fodder’: Siberian governor confronted by relatives of Russian unit
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
A Russian governor in Siberia has been confronted by angry citizens, who blamed him for deploying a local riot police unit to Ukraine to become “cannon fodder”, a video clip circulating online on Monday showed.
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[Link] Ukraine declares state of emergency as fears of Russian invasion grow
Read: 23/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine has introduced a nationwide state of emergency in which special restrictions will apply in order to keep the country calm and protect its economy amid fears of a Russian invasion, a senior Ukrainian security official says.
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[Link] A Jan. 6 Rioter Crawled Through Swamps to Seek Asylum in Belarus
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
An American who is accused of punching a police officer during the Capitol riots is now seeking political asylum in the eastern European country of Belarus.
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[Link] Two Belarus coaches are expelled from the Olympics over their treatment of a sprinter.
Read: 6/8/2021 www.nytimes.com
TOKYO — Two coaches involved in the attempt to force an Olympic athlete home to Belarus against her will have been stripped of their credentials and expelled from the Olympic Village, Games organizers said Friday.
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[Link] Belarusian Olympic athlete defected after being told by grandmother not to return
Read: 6/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya says she decided to defect as she was being driven to a Tokyo airport because her grandmother told her it was not safe to return home to Belarus.
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[Link] Belarus Olympian safe in Tokyo hotel after refusing 'forced' flight home
Read: 5/8/2021 www.bbc.com
A Belarusian Olympian who refused her team's order to fly home early is safe after seeking protection from Japanese police, Games officials have said.They say sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, 24, spent the night in a hotel at Tokyo's Haneda airport.
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[Link] Watch This Activist Defy Europe’s Last Dictator by Dancing at the Start of Her Trial
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Maria Kolesnikova, a protest organiser, and Maksim Znak, an opposition lawyer, were key leaders in the Belarusian opposition movement against the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko that exploded last year after widely panned elections.
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[Link] Jailed for waving flowers in the street or holding tea parties: Life in the newly totalitarian state of Belarus
Read: 2/6/2021 www.telegraph.co.uk
Last month alone, 370 Belarusians were sentenced to administrative arrest, serving combined 6,107 days in custody, according to the rights group Viasna which lists 321 people as prisoners of consciousness.