During the Russo-Circassian War in the 19th century, the Russian army employed ethnic cleansing as their primary tactic of war.
Circassian villages were starved and burnt down, with any survivors immediately massacred.
Why has Japan emerged from the “lost decades” unscathed from the populist wave and a consequential actor in the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific?
@solis_msolis
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If Putin had his way, he'd have puppet regimes in Sofia, Bratislava or Warsaw throwing opposition figures in jail and murdering them in cold blood. That was his vision for Ukraine at the outset of the "Special Military Operation", for sure.
6/17 After Stalin had occupied LT at the end of WW2, the countryside continued to be ravaged by violent clashes between the Soviets and their local helpers and a forest-based resistance. Another of Gabrielė’s sons was brutally killed and thrown into the river.
The russian occupiers destroyed the monuments of the sacred art of the Polovtsians - the Polovtsian stone women (dating from the IX-XIII centuries), which are located on mount Kremenets near Izyum (now liberated)
@ua_industrial_e
Cardinal Zuppi in Moscow 1) Talks with Putin's advisor Ushakov - way below the level accorded him in Kyiv where he saw Zelensky; 2) Meets Maria Lvova-Belova, indicted by the ICC for kidnapping of Ukrainian children. 3 cheers to this triumph of dipolmacy!
!! Dutch MP
@PieterOmtzigt
, known for his criticism of
@JITMH17
's handling of
#MH17
investigation, caught on tape and via SMS instructing fake pro-Russian "witness" how to lie to victims' relatives and journalists.
ああ、日本の親アサド(&親マドゥロ)系陰謀論者きちんと捕捉されてるね。mko、衣笠書店、よーすけ etc.
Russia Insider 記事のツイートから、陰謀論者を辿ってる。
Russia Insider については、以前池内さんが注意喚起してた記憶があるけど、ロシア・プロパガンダ系の英語サイトです。
1/
@trappedsoldier
is an account that caught my eye in the retweet network for Russia Insider. This account is largely in Japanese, and frequently links Russia Today and Sputnik in addition to Russia Insider.
Meanwhile Dutch far-right MP Thierry Baudet is retweeting his recent interview in which he says ‘I hope Russia will win, I think it’s fantastic that someone like Putin exists’
The point of the story: please don't sing "Imagine" to Ukrainians. You are welcome to sing it to Putin. But you absolutely mustn't sing it to Ukrainians.