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In August, when crowds of hundreds of thousands gathered in Minsk under white-red-white banners, I already wrote about my attitude towards this symbol. In short, the story is short and inglorious every time. Two occupations and the “dashing 90s”. Such is the Belarusian sign of trouble. Almost 4 months have passed since then. And, despite the fact that crowds of hundreds of thousands at the Minsk...
The poster “Northern Kazakhstan is Russian land” was placed on the fence of the Kazakh embassy in Moscow. After this, a member of the Patriot movement named Anton was detained, reports the OVD-Info publication. “After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the granting of independence to Kazakhstan, the population of the East Kazakhstan region, as in other regions inhabited by Russians, began to unite in various organizations in order to defend their rights.…
Less than 100 people came out today for the traditional rally in support of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Protest supporters attribute the drop in the number of participants to the frosty weather. Today in Khabarovsk it’s minus 15, which feels like minus 25. Apparently that’s why the traditional procession didn’t reach the end of its usual route, people dispersed earlier. On Lenin Square, where...
The first charging stations for ships powered by electric motors appeared in Crimea. Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev stated this at the Open Crimea tourism forum, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Lebedev, “charging stations” are already located on the embankment in Alushta (where the businessman has the More hotel complex) and will soon open in the famous Mriya hotel, owned by Sber. In addition, Lebedev...
Supporters of the “Unlimited Protest” (“Bessrochka”) Elizaveta Drepeleva and Gleb Sokolov held the action “Hidden Form of Mass Event” on Red Square in Moscow. They climbed into plastic bags, one of which read “Citizens have rights,” and lay down on the pavement. Thus, the participants of the performance protested against amendments to the law on rallies, which significantly tightened the rules for holding them...
Even under the current conditions of sanctions and anti-Russian censorship, Crimea is visited annually by about 100 families from Western Europe traveling around Russia by car. Such figures were announced at the Open Crimea forum by the head of the Committee for the Development of Autotourism of the National Union of the Hospitality Industry, Andrei Artyukhov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This is not a vacation, these are excursions. People are interested in how life goes “beyond the bridge”.…
Construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has resumed off the coast of Germany. This was reported by the press service of the operator Nord Stream 2 AG, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The pipe-laying is carried out by the vessel Fortuna, which changed ownership a month before, probably in order to remove the previous owner, Mezhregiontruboprovodstroy, from US sanctions. Fortuna will have to lay about 2,5 kilometers of pipes in the German exclusive maritime economic zone...
Ukraine is not giving up attempts to achieve multi-billion dollar payments from Russia in international arbitrations, but they are afraid of competition from the Russian oil company YUKOS, which was liquidated in 2007. The Kiev online publication Zerkalo Nedeli writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unpleasant news came from The Hague to the Kremlin. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands rejected Moscow's request to suspend the execution of decisions of lower courts...
In the southern regions controlled by Kyiv, there are still facilities that can be used by Russia to return Ukraine to its fold. The correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports this in an interview with the magazine “Ukrainian Week”, the former director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance (UINR), nationalist historian and deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Vladimir Vyatrovich stated in an interview with the question “where to start decolonization.” “With the actualization of the problem. Necessary…
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky intends to invite Washington and London to join negotiations on Donbass. The Kiev online publication Zerkalo Nedeli writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The publication notes that recently the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Alexander Danylyuk, said that this body (headed by the President of Ukraine) is preparing a decision on Donbass. According to the publication’s sources, the options for the solutions under consideration, prepared as...
