Section: The Netherlands
PayPal Blocks Donations for Printing Boris Nemtsov’s Ukraine War Report
PayPal has blocked the account collecting funds to print copies of the “Putin.War” report. The service says it can’t be used for “political aims” in Russia. Image by Richard Levine from Demotix. PayPal, the US-based electronic payment service, has blocked the account set up by Russian activists to collect donations for the print publication...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Responds to Ukrainians’ Complaints, But Is His Answer Enough?
Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg during his live Q&A. Screenshot from Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg has addressed the appeals of Ukrainian Facebook users for better content moderation and calls to create a dedicated Ukrainian office. His answer? Facebook “might consider” opening an office in Ukraine some time “in the future.” Earlier this...
Dutch FM: Harsh words for Russia “breach of trust,” no talk of MH17
According to Minister Bert Koenders of Foreign Affairs, the “breach of trust” caused by Russia’s illegal annexation of the Crimea and the country’s interference in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine will first have to be repaired before the international approach to Russia can get back to normal. The post Dutch FM: Harsh...
Fed Up With ‘Political’ Blocking, Russia and Ukraine Appeal to Facebook
Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has publicly joined calls for a dedicated Ukrainian Facebook office. His support for the cause comes after numerous users in Ukraine—and in Russia—complained of their posts and accounts being taken down or blocked, despite the fact that they may not have violated Facebook’s...
Ukraine Is Banning ‘Communist Symbols’ and the Kremlin Is Peeved
Ukrainian government tries to abandon its Soviet legacy by banning the symbols of the communist regime. Images mixed by Anna Poludenko-Young. Ukrainian authorities have moved to restrict the propaganda of Communist and Nazi regimes and their symbols in a bid to part with the country’s communist past. Some Russian politicians believe this...
MH17 search mission ends, more coffins to be flown home
The team of experts in Ukraine making a new effort to recover human remains and wreckage from flight MH17 have… …read more Source:...
Chernobyl Is Burning, But Who’s to Blame?
Chernobyl reactor #4 seen from across the man-made cooling river, Ukraine, in 2013. Image by Guy Corbishley from Demotix. As Russia recovers from massive wildfires in the Siberian regions of Khakassia and Zabaikal, Ukraine has encountered an even more alarming problem: a 400-hectare wildfire dangerously close to the Chernobyl exclusion zone....
Ukraine’s Security Service Takes Down 30,000 Websites to Fight ‘Pro-Russian Propaganda’
Almost 30,000 websites went down after SBU seized a Ukrainian hosting provider’s servers. Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) was initially aiming to shut down five websites that had been allegedly spreading pro-Russian views about the conflict in Ukraine. Instead, they ended up crushing thousands of...
The Curious Chronology of Russian Twitter Bots
The creation dates of Twitter accounts in Lawrence Alexander’s ‘bot’ sample provide ample evidence of automation. Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. Using open-source tools, Internet researcher Lawrence Alexander gathered and visualised data on nearly 20,500 pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts, pointing to extensive information manipulation...
Dutch foreign minister in US for talks on nuclear weapons, Ukraine
Dutch foreign affairs minister Bert Koenders will visit the US next week for several days of talks on nuclear weapons… …read more Source:...
