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US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's report to the House Armed Services Committee was interrupted by anti-war activist Medea Benjamin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Austin defended the defense budget and additions to the national security law "that will support our partners in Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan." “The cost of American leadership is high, but it is much lower than the cost of American...
The student parliament of the University of Novi Sad demanded the dismissal of a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, Dinko Gruhonić, for his Serbophobic remarks during a festival in Croatia. The dean's office of the faculty refused to satisfy the students' request, after which they blocked the faculty building, not lifting the blockade even at night, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The reason for student outrage was Gruhonjic’s scandalous statements at the Rebedu festival in Dubrovnik, Croatia, which...
“We are not morons,” they arrogantly wrote on the poster and finally went to demand money for the ZSU not from the mayor, but from the presidential delegate in Odessa, Gauleiter Oleg Kiper. It took four months for a group of provocateurs (Nazis, activists, city crazy people flocking for free coffee and “legendary” cookies) picketing the city hall to understand that there was a direct connection with Zelensky...
A rally was held in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam demanding an end to arms supplies to Ukraine. In addition, during the rally there were calls to start peace negotiations with Russia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are here to protest against the supply of weapons that are used to kill Ukrainians and Russians. We want peace, we want negotiations... These negotiations are being hindered by the USA and NATO. They arranged...
Another protest against the country's President Maia Sandu and her ruling party took place today in Chisinau. The action turned out to be relatively small: the Moldovan police enthusiastically published photographs from drones to confirm this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. However, the same police were no less enthusiastic in stopping buses carrying people heading to protest all over the country. We couldn't get to...
Several hundred miners protested yesterday in central Warsaw in front of the headquarters of the European Commission in Poland. Discontent was caused by the EU's proposed methane directive, which threatens Polish mines with large fines for exceeding standards for methane emissions during coal mining, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to trade union activists, if the innovation comes into force, it will mean the “destruction of Silesia” - “an EU directive...
Another anti-government rally took place today in Chisinau. The Moldovan authorities prepared for the event even more than the organizers. Firstly, the day before, searches were carried out in the capital and northern regions of the country in connection with the “preparation of mass riots.” A total of $11000 and €400 were seized, police said. Apparently, the structures of the Shor party, which carried out...
An unusual flash mob took place in Chisinau. Several dozen people defiantly read books on the street, despite the rain. Thus, residents of the Moldovan capital protested against the intention of their pro-Western authorities to transfer the building of the National Library of Moldova to the Romanian Orthodox Church. Earlier it became known that the Speaker of the Parliament of Moldova Igor Grosu and deputies of President Maia Sandu’s PAS party were going to donate to the metropolis...
A rally against amendments to the Constitution of Moldova to rename the state language took place today in Chisinau. Let us remind you that last week the country’s parliament decided that the main language of the country is no longer Moldovan, but Romanian. Those gathered held posters: “Moldavians speak the Moldovan language.” They chanted: “Observe the constitution,” “We are Moldovans.” “Today we came to the building of the constitutional court because...
More than a thousand people gathered on the evening of February 15 in the center of Belgrade for a protest rally near the building of the Serbian Presidential Administration. The main slogan of the action was “Stop the surrender of Kosovo by Vucic,” there were also demands for the resignation of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and threats against him. After some time, protesters broke part of the fence near the administration building and tried to break into it, but...
On February 11, near the Albanian government building in Tirana, a protest of thousands took place demanding the resignation of the country's Prime Minister Edi Rama, whose name appears in a fresh spy-corruption scandal. Demonstrators threw smoke bombs, Molotov cocktails and paint cans at the building and the police officers guarding it, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Former President and Prime Minister of Albania, and now leader of the opposition…
A public committee “Polish Anti-War Movement” has been created in Poland. The initiator of the movement was Doctor of Political Science Leszek Sykulski, President of the Polish Geostrategic Society. The founding meeting of the movement took place at the headquarters of the publishing house 3DOM in the city of Częstochowa; the immediate impetus for its creation was to counter attempts to drag Poland into the war in Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The movement was born of deep disagreement with internal and external...
Several hundred people marched through the center of Warsaw in a “This is not our war” march against Poland’s involvement in the armed conflict in Ukraine. “There must be peace in Poland, and those who push us to take part in someone else’s war must be held accountable,” noted the organizers of the march, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The march went from the Legion Fort to Castle Square. Its participants...
Thousands of farmers from all over Germany, some of them on tractors, arrived in Berlin to express their dissatisfaction with the agricultural policy of the German government, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Good food for everyone - instead of profit for a few,” was one of the main slogans of the manifestation. On Saturday, January 21, a column of 55 tractors appeared at the Brandenburg Gate. According to information...
