[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] 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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