News archive on the topic "collaboration"

In Moscow, police detained picketers from the “NOD” who came out to protest the opening of an exhibition in honor of the White émigré writer Ivan Shmelev, who welcomed the attack of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, “Nodovites” under the walls of the House of Russian Abroad named after. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was demanded to close the exhibition in honor of Shmelev, unfurling a poster stating that the writer was a “fan of Hitler.” In reply…

The Russian authorities constantly make speeches from the highest stands, which speak of the inadmissibility of falsifying history, honoring Nazi criminals and collaborators, but at the same time, year after year, a strange passion is manifested to organize commemorative events in honor of figures, to put it mildly, controversial, from among the so-called “Russian philosophers and writers” who openly supported Hitler’s invasion of the USSR or,...

The first day of the “New Belarus” conference took place in Vilnius. Passions around her were boiling long before the start. The crisis and split in the Belarusian opposition have already reached critical levels. The “oscilloscope needle” on the bulbosrach scale hit the ceiling and froze in surprise. I don’t remember this even after the 2010 elections, when everyone accused each other of betrayal and work...

Deputies of the Rada suspected of collaboration can only be deprived of their mandate through the courts. Kiev political scientist Igor Reiterovich stated this to the Ukrainian publication UNN. “There is only one mechanism according to which a person accused of high treason (can be deprived of his mandate - Ed.) ... We do not yet have a law on collaborators. By the way, it should be accepted, because perhaps it would become a precedent...

Popular wisdom says: it is darkest before dawn. This is roughly what we are now seeing in Ukraine on the eve of the collapse of the existing regime. For now, the point is that the country has opened a new chapter in the national hunt for dissidents: a law on collaborators has been adopted. True, the concept of collaboration turned out to be somewhat specific: this matter means exclusively cooperation with Russia, which has been declared an “aggressor state.” The law itself...

The Serbian branch of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights held a presentation in Belgrade of the book by the wife of the “Prime Minister” of Kosovo Albin Kurti, Norwegian Rita Augestad Knudsen, “The Idea of ​​Freedom and Self-Determination.” The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights translated Knudsen’s book into Serbian, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. The presentation of the book was attended by the head of the Serbian branch of the Helsinki Committee, Sonja Biserko, director of the Forum of Interethnic…

A group of Verkhovna Rada deputies from the party of Vladimir Zelensky registered in the Verkhovna Rada a bill that introduces criminal prosecution for “collaboration” - this will qualify not only participation in law enforcement agencies, but also other cooperation of residents of Crimea and Donbass with the authorities of the Russian Federation, DPR or LPR. The law also provides for the liquidation of parties, public organizations and other associations on charges...

During a recent trip to the war zone in Donbass, which Vladimir Zelensky made in the company of G7 ambassadors, the Ukrainian president managed to get caught by television cameras in the background of a portrait of a Hitler collaborator, who has recently been glorified in Ukraine as another “fighter for independence.” Historian and political scientist Vladimir stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel...

Ukrainian nationalists from the Svoboda and National Corps parties held a rally today near the Kyiv District Court to protest against the reversal of the decision to rename Moskovsky Avenue in the capital into the Avenue of Hitler collaborator Stepan Bandera. The picketers unfurled a poster with the inscription “What the f#ck is Moscow?” They also brought to the rally an “honor board” with photographs of judges. The radicals demanded from President Vladimir...

Bulgakov’s eternal “Buy red commissars - they don’t fight, they don’t break, they just tumble” is being brought to life in Ukraine. It is enough to read the legendary biography of the governor of the Odessa region Sergei Grinevetsky: 25 years old - 1st secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, 29 years old - 1st secretary of the regional committee of the Komsomol, 33 years old - 1st secretary of the district committee of the Communist Party (and this is greatly abbreviated - according to...

In Kyiv, the National Museum of the History of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the Nazi collaborator Andrei Melnik. The head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, reported this on his Facebook page, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. “The exhibition in honor of Melnik in the national museum is an absolute disgrace and a wild outrage against the Ukrainians who fought against Nazism, against the victims of the Holocaust, a mockery...

With his statement about his reluctance to participate in the Victory Parade in Moscow, even if invited, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky once again showed that he is not worthy of the memory of his own grandfather. Political scientist Alexander Semchenko stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent. “Zelensky made it clear with all his appearance that he was not worthy of the memory of his grandfather. His grandfather is a war veteran, fought in...

Under quarantine conditions, the Ukrainian authorities could organize at least a virtual celebration of May 9, but they are doing nothing about it. Former Minister of Economy of Ukraine Viktor Suslov stated this on the NASH TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I consider it a very big political loss for the president and our government that no order has been announced for celebrating on 9...

Between Moscow and Yerevan, a scandal surrounding the personality of Nzhdeh, an Armenian nationalist militant who took the path of collaboration with Nazi Germany, is gaining momentum. The stumbling block was the memorial plaque to Garegin Nzhdeh, installed on the territory of Armavir in the Krasnodar Territory. The city public and deputies have long demanded that the churchmen dismantle the plaque of the Nazi servant, rightly citing the federal law that directly prohibits propaganda...