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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] 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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