JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. actively considering giving cluster munitions to Ukraine” – Politico

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“The Biden administration is actively considering sending cluster munitions to Ukraine to help Kyiv’s counteroffensive punch through Russia’s defenses, two U.S. officials and a person familiar with the debate said. The discussion … has intensified … as Ukraine’s effort to break through Russia’s frontline has stalled. … Late last year, the administration said it had ‘concerns’ … mainly for humanitarian […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Prigozhin went free. What about these Russians?” – Washington Post

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“For 18 months, Russia has been sliding deeper into totalitarian rule, including draconian laws pushed by … Putin that make it criminal to question the war against Ukraine — or even call it a ‘war’ …. [T]housands of Russians who object to the war and oppose [] Putin have not had the benefit of [the kind of] lenienc[y] [shown Prigozhin, […]

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Russia in Review, June 9-16, 2023 – 7 Things to Know

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(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) Ukraine’s military command claimed, as of June 15, to have retaken approximately 40 square miles of territory in the course of its counteroffensive, even as its soldiers encountered what U.S. military officials described as fierce resistance by Russian troops. The latter have reportedly managed to destroy at least four Leopard-2 tanks, 3 Leopard 2R engineering vehicles […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Nova Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine: Ten guidelines for writing about catastrophe” – Timothy Snyder

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“1. Avoid [bothsidesing] this manmade humanitarian and ecological catastrophe …. 2. Russian spokespersons claiming … Ukraine did something … is not … [describing] the real world. … * * *  5. [If citing Russian propaganda, include considerations of what has been said inside Russia itself.] … Russian propagandists have … long argu[ed] [in favor of blowing up] Ukrainian dams … […]

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Russia in Review, May 19-26, 2023 – 5 Things to Know

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( Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) Two Russian rebel groups linked to the Ukrainian military raided a number of settlements in western Russia this week before being expelled. The rebels used U.S.-made vehicles in the raids, prompting U.S. officials to remind Kyiv that Washington doesn’t condone the use of U.S.-delivered equipment in attacks inside Russia. The U.S. intelligence community believes at […]

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Russia in Review, May 5-12, 2023: 7 Things to Know

(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) Moscow blaming West at every turn: Vladimir Putin attacked the West on May 9, claiming that Russia’s future depended on the outcome of the war in Ukraine, as he attended a slimmed-down military parade to mark victory over Nazi Germany in WWII, MT reports. “A real war has once again been unleashed against our motherland,” he […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden administration hunts for high-value Russians for potential prisoner swap” – CNN

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“The Biden administration [reportedly] is scouring the globe for offers that could entice Russia to release two wrongfully detained Americans, Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan …. The U.S. [reportedly] does not currently have any high-level Russian spies in its custody … [and therefore is] approaching allied countries [holding] Russian spies …. U.S. officials [reportedly] have also been surveying allies without […]

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Russia in Review, March 31-April 7, 2023 – 5 Things to Know

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(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) Three days of Xi’s talks with Macron and von der Leyen reaffirmed their rhetorical commitment to peace in Ukraine and an end to nuclear saber-rattling, but produced no concrete measures for attaining either. A readout of the trilateral talks in Beijing by the Chinese MFA said Xi told his two guests that a ceasefire in Ukraine […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Putin’s war destroyed a golden age of Russian culture” – Financial Times

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“Inside the pain, purges and persecution that have decimated the country’s once-flourishing theatre scene” “… Hours after Russia’s invasion … [Moscow’s experimental] Meyerhold Centre … became the first theatre to protest. … [A]ctors, directors, ballet dancers and conductors followed suit. … [A]bout 2,000 Russian cultural workers … signed an open letter … opposing the war. Some went into the streets […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian President Putin visits occupied city of Mariupol” – AP

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“… Putin has visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to the Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September. Kremlin spokesman … Peskov said … Putin arrived in Mariupol … Saturday after visiting Crimea, a short distance southwest of Mariupol …. Mariupol became a worldwide symbol of defiance after outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian forces held out […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Dispatch From Kyiv: Ballet in a Time of War” – The Nation/ Carol Schaeffer

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“While Ukraine’s capital has mostly returned to normal, reminders of the brutal fighting are everywhere.” “We sat in red velvet seats under the Kyiv opera house’s soaring dome … with baroque flourishes of black and gold … wait[ing] for a ballet adaptation of one of Ukraine’s most celebrated literary works …. [On] the eve of the first anniversary of the […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “It’s High Time to Decolonize Western Russia Studies” – Foreign Policy/ Artem Shaipov, Yuliia Shaipova

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“Why has it taken a war of conquest for experts to recognize Russia’s nature as a vast imperial enterprise?” “… Russia’s nature as an imperial power is [historically and geopolitically] incontrovertible. After World War I, the Russian Empire avoided the permanent dismemberment that befell other multi-ethnic land empires …. The Soviet Union … reconquered most of the non-Russian lands … […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainians are begging for cluster munitions to stop the Russians” – Washington Post

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“… [T]here’s a weapon that could do a great deal to help Kyiv stave off future attacks [] and … be provided in large amounts at short notice: cluster munitions. … a controversial move with real risks. … More than 100 countries have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions … ban[ning] … stockpiling or use. The weapons … consist of […]

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AUDIO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putinology: the art of analyzing the man in the Kremlin” – NPR/ Greg Myre

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“… Americans and others who closely studied the Communist leadership of the Soviet Union used to be called ‘Kremlinologists.’ Now there’s a new generation of analysts who could be called ‘Putinologists,’ those seeking to understand Russia today by deconstructing its leader and the war he’s waging in Ukraine. … Kremlinolgists tried to interpret the Soviet Union from fragmentary information coming […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Isolated, out of touch, but clinging on: how Russians see Putin” – The Sunday Times (UK)

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“A year on from the disastrous invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin could be just one crisis away from collapse.” “… Putin is notorious for asking Russian historians how he will be judged a hundred years hence. With his invasion of Ukraine, he has ensured that he will be assessed a failure, an example of the way hubris can devour any […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “To Save Ukraine, End the War; With the fighting poised to take an ominous turn, now is the time to push for a cease-fire” – The Nation

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“… U.S. intelligence estimates show combined Russian and Ukrainian military casualties well in excess of 200,000 — while the United Nations estimates at least 7,100 Ukrainian civilian deaths. The number of internally displaced people within Ukraine stands at roughly 6 million. An additional 8 million Ukrainian refugees have fled to other countries in Europe — the largest wave of refugees […]

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U.S. Department of State Travel Advisory: Russia – Do Not Travel

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(U.S. Department of State – Feb. 13, 2023) Do not travel to Russia due to the unpredictable consequences of the unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces, the potential for harassment and the singling out of U.S. citizens for detention by Russian government security officials, the arbitrary enforcement of local law, limited flights into and out of Russia, […]

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RUSSIALINK: “U.S. Warns Citizens to Leave Russia, Citing Draft, Security Risks” – Moscow Times

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(Moscow Times – Feb. 13, 2023) The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has urged its citizens to leave Russia “immediately” due to a slew of security risks that include possible forced enlistment into the Russian army. “U.S. citizens residing or traveling in Russia should depart immediately,” the embassy said in a travel advisory Sunday. It pointed to the “unpredictable consequences” of […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Russians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the War; The Pliant Majority Sustaining Putin’s Rule” – Foreign Affairs/ Andrei Kolesnikov

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“… Those who fear Putin have either fled the country or are silent. The regime has a formidable arsenal of instruments to deploy against anyone who speaks out or otherwise expresses opposition. It has used the legal system to crush any dissent, handing down Stalinist prison terms to antiwar activists. It has invented its own equivalent of yellow stars to […]

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Documentary on Jailed Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny Nominated for Oscar

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(Moscow Times – Jan. 26, 2023) The U.S.-produced fly-on-the-wall documentary “Navalny,” which followed the now-jailed Russian anti-corruption campaigner and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny during the aftermath of a poisoning attempt in 2020, was nominated for an Academy Award on Tuesday. The film, directed by Daniel Roher, shows Navalny during his recuperation in Berlin from poisoning with nerve agent Novichok and […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia must be punished for its war crimes” – The Hill/ Walter C. Clemens, Jr.

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“Reports that Russian forces have systematically looted Ukrainian museums drives home the reality that … Putin’s policies mirror those of … Hitler. …. Like rape, torture and murder, some of those actions could be blamed on lack of direction from military leaders, but repeated missile attacks on civilian dwellings and infrastructure can only be due to high-level strategic planning. … […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Scale of alleged torture, detentions by Russian forces in Kherson emerges” – Reuters

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“… [M]ethods of the alleged physical torture administered by occupying Russian forces [reportedly] have included electric shocks to genitals and other parts of the body, beatings and various forms of suffocation …. Prisoners [reportedly] were also held in overcrowded cells without sanitation or sufficient food or water for periods of up to two months …. According to the most comprehensive […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Are We in the West Weaker Than Ukrainians? Thank God someone is standing up to Putin.” – New York Times

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“… We are holding Ukraine’s coat as it is sacrificing lives and infrastructure in ways that benefit us, by degrading Russia’s military threat to NATO and Western Europe — and thus to us. … Putin has been a destabilizing and brutal bully for many years — from Chechnya to Syria, Georgia to Moldova — partly because the world has been […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin is trying to silence those who tell of the war’s horrors” – Washington Post

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“… Putin has imposed Stalin-like restrictions on speech about the military and its disastrous invasion of Ukraine. … [O]pposition politician Ilya Yashin was sentenced to 8½ years in prison for calling attention to possible war crimes … in … Bucha … another attempt to lock up the truth. … The barbarism that has taken place in Ukraine is being closely […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Pope Francis Compares War in Ukraine to the Holocaust” – WSJ

“Pontiff intensifies his rhetoric on Russia’s invasion, which he recently likened to the Soviet genocide.” “Pope Francis … compared the war in Ukraine to the Nazi genocide of the Jews, in his latest escalation of rhetoric on the war. The comments risked aggravating tensions between the Vatican and Moscow following the Pope’s earlier comparison of the war to Soviet-instigated genocide […]

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Killing In Kherson: A Self-Made Partisan Describes His Role In The Resistance To Russia’s Occupation

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(Article text Copyright © 2022 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036. – rferl.org – Aleksander Palikot – KHERSON, Ukraine, December 3, 2022 – article text also appeared at rferl.org/a/ukraine-kherson-partisan-killings/32160431.html) Aleksander Palikot is an Ukraine-based journalist covering politics, history, and culture. His work has appeared in Krytyka […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Negotiations can’t end the Russia-Ukraine war until one side has lost” – Los Angeles Times

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“… A negotiated solution would … have dire consequences for civilians trapped under Russian occupation. … Ukraine would be expected to give up not just land, but also people. Virtually every settlement … liberated by Ukraine reveals horrifying evidence of torture chambers, large-scale sexual violence, murders of civilians, disappearances and countless other crimes. … Any cease-fire or a peace deal […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Secret Signs Show Putin’s Own Henchmen Are Turning on Him” – Daily Beast

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“‘ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN’; Some are said to be fleeing the country, while others reportedly came extremely close to ousting him this week.” “Nearly nine months into Russia’s war against Ukraine, it seems some of … Putin’s strongmen are laying the groundwork to abandon ship. A human rights group that works closely with Russian inmates and investigates abuses by the security […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Deaths in Poland Are a Warning for Everyone” – Foreign Policy

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“Errant missiles from Ukraine are a reminder that wars can always escalate accidentally.” “If you think the risks of escalation in the Ukraine war are trivial, the tragic deaths of two Polish citizens from an errant Ukrainian air defense missile on Tuesday should give you some pause. … [E]ven if the adversaries are trying to be careful, big wars are […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Accounts of Torture Emerge From Kherson, Ukraine’s ‘City of Fear’” – New York Times

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“Just days after the southern city of Kherson was liberated after eight months of Russian occupation, accounts of beatings, torture and disappearances are emerging.” “Olena Naumova’s descent into two weeks of terror began in late August, when three Russian soldiers with automatic rifles banged on her door in … occupied … Kherson. She said they ordered her to turn over […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Army Threatening to Shoot Deserters Amid Low Morale: U.K.” – Newsweek

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“The Russian army is likely threatening to shoot deserters amid low morale as the war against Ukraine continues to expose weaknesses within … Putin’s military, according to a[] [British] assessment …. [T]he UK defense ministry said … that Russian forces have likely started deploying ‘barrier troops’ or ‘blocking units’ to deal with their own retreating soldiers … unwilling to fight […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Putin Says Civilians ‘Must Be Removed’ From Kherson as Battle Looms” – Moscow Times

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(Moscow Times – Nov. 4, 2022) Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the remaining civilian population should be evacuated from the city of Kherson in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine as all indicators suggested the battle for the strategically key city on the Dnipro River was imminent. “Now, of course, those who live in Kherson must be removed from the […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Using Adoptions, Russia Turns Ukrainian Children Into Spoils of War” – New York Times

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“Thousands of Ukrainian children have been transferred to Russia. ‘I didn’t want to go,’ one girl told The New York Times from a foster home near Moscow.” “As … children fled bombed-out group homes and boarding schools[,] [s]eparated from … families, they followed neighbors or strangers heading west, seeking the relative safety of central Ukraine. … [P]ro-Russia forces intercepted them, […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “After war, after Putin, what’s next for Russia?” – Washington Post

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“… Putin’s hail of missiles against civilian targets in Ukraine is both reprehensible and a desperate move in an unjust war he is losing. The question raised by … Navalny in a recent essay …: What will come when it is over? How Russia emerges from this disaster could shape the world for a long time. In addition to Russia’s […]

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At 70, Is Putin Still The Russian Public’s Irreplaceable Man?

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(Article text Copyright © 2022 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036. – rferl.org – Robert Coalson – Oct. 6, 2022 – article text also appeared at rferl.org/a/russia-putin-70th-birthday-mobilization-popularity/32068714.html) Russian President Vladimir Putin marks his 70th birthday on October 7. The jubilee comes at a time when the […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘We’re hunting them down and shooting them like pigs’: How the Ukrainians are taking brutal revenge on the collaborators who’ve betrayed their neighbours – and country – to the Russians” – Daily Mail

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“Ukrainians were beaten, electrocuted and forced to endure mock executions when Russia overtook Balakliya The interrogations were carried out by officials from Russia’s Federal Security Service Some Ukrainians were assisting Vladimir Putin’s war crimes and theft of their land, it has now emerged Kyiv has opened investigations into 1,309 suspected traitors and launched 450 prosecutions of collaborators Others accused of […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Amnesty International’s report criticizing Ukraine is dividing the rights group” – NPR

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“[An] Amnesty International … report … accusing the Ukrainian military of stationing … troops and artillery near hospitals, schools and residential buildings in ways that may amount to war crimes. … [has been getting] harsh pushback from Ukrainian officials and civil society leaders. … [including] Amnesty’s … own Ukraine operation. ‘We did everything we could to prevent this report from […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is Russia high on war crimes?” – The Hill

Kremlin and River

“… the bombing of the theater and hospital in Mariupol … the destruction of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and Kharkiv … mass executions in Irpin and Bucha … daily rapes[;] [t]he bombing of the shopping mall in Kremenchuk and the city center in Vinnytsia[] … the destruction of over 50 Ukrainian POWs and the online castration of a soldier […] Don’t the […]

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Amnesty Accuses Ukrainian Forces Of Endangering Civilians, Sparking Angry Response From Kyiv

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(Article text Copyright © 2022 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036. – rferl.org – Todd Prince – Aug. 4, 2022 – article text also appeared at rferl.org/a/ukraine-amnesty-endangering-civilians/31974059.html) Ukrainian forces have been accused by Amnesty International of endangering civilians by basing themselves in residential buildings, schools, and […]

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Russia’s National Day

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PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE (U.S. Department of State – June 12, 2022) On behalf of the United States of America, I express my wish for a more peaceful, open future for the people of Russia as they commemorate Russia Day. June 12, 1990, marked an important step in fulfilling the aspirations of the people of Russia […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin is starving millions of people around the world” – Washington Post

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“… Putin’s atrocities … grow[] [daily]. In addition to … the blood of Ukrainians on his hands from his completely unjustified war, [Putin] is … responsible for … growing starvation … around the world. Ukraine is the breadbasket for much of the Middle East and North Africa. … Putin is preventing Ukrainian grain from leaving … Odessa and [blocking] other […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Video appears to show Ukrainian troops killing captured Russian soldiers” – New York Times

European Portion of Commonwealth of Independent States

“A video posted online on Monday and verified by The New York Times appears to show a group of Ukrainian soldiers killing captured Russian troops outside a village west of Kyiv. … The soldiers are lying in the road a few feet from a BMD-2, an infantry fighting vehicle used by Russian airborne units. Some appear to have had their […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Rape as a weapon: huge scale of sexual violence endured in Ukraine emerges” – The Guardian

European Portion of Commonwealth of Independent States

“Women and girls have recounted the abuse they have suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers.” “… [There is] a mounting body of evidence that summary executions, rape and torture have been used against civilians in areas under Russian control since the Kremlin launched the invasion [of Ukraine] …. Particularly difficult … to comprehend is the scale of the sexual […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “The West must choose: Either arm Ukraine or enable Putin’s genocide” – Atlantic Council

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“… It is becoming increasingly apparent that Putin’s invasion force has committed war crimes … echo[ing] the worst excesses of the totalitarian twentieth century. … reveal[ing] the genocidal intent at the heart of Putin’s Ukraine War. … bestial carnage point[ing] to a premeditated plan of extermination. Dead bodies lie strewn throughout the streets, many with … hands bound. Victims are […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Global outcry at civilian killings near Kyiv as fighting shifts east” – Reuters

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“Global outrage spread … Monday at civilian killings in north Ukraine, including evidence of bound bodies shot at close range and a mass grave found in areas retaken from Russian troops, as fighting raged on in the country’s south and east. … Pictures of the destruction and civilian deaths in Bucha looked set to galvanise the United States and Europe […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s first homefront casualties: Reporters and the press” – Christian Science Monitor

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“Russian media are imploding, with most independent outlets shut by the government and state-run outfits hit by mass resignations as reporters face up to the reality of their jobs.” “Editor’s note: This article was edited in order to conform with Russian legislation criminalizing references to Russia’s current action in Ukraine as anything other than a ‘special military operation.’ Russian troops […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine, Russia resume talks as fighting nears Kyiv” – AP

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“Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held a new round of talks on Monday, even as Russia’s military forces kept up their punishing campaign to capture Ukraine’s capital with fighting and artillery fire in Kyiv’s suburbs. … [A]n airstrike on a military base near the Polish border brought the war dangerously close to NATO’s doorstep …. The negotiations taking place by video […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship; The Stalinisation of Russia; As it sinks in that he cannot win in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is resorting to repression at home” – The Economist

Kremlin and River

“… Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine … dream[ing] of restoring the glory of the Russian empire. … [but] ended up restoring the terror of Josef Stalin. … [H]e has unleashed the most violent act of unprovoked aggression in Europe since 1939 … [and] … is turning himself into … a 21st-century Stalin [at home], resorting as never before to […]

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