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Amateur footage ‘shows huge blast at Ukrainian ammunition depot’ – video
Amateur footage published on YouTube purports to show a huge explosion after an ammunition storage facility reportedly caught fire in eastern Ukraine on Thursday. The footage, filmed from a distance, shows a fierce blaze sending large plumes of smoke into the sky, and a series of fireballs shooting over the nearby town. Early reports suggest...
Russia raids Ukrainian library in Moscow, arrests head
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Armed, masked police raided a Moscow library specializing in Ukrainian literature, arresting its director before dawn on Thursday and carting off books that the authorities called illegal anti-Russian propaganda. …read more Source:...
Russia detains Ukrainian library chief
Russian investigators detain the director of a Ukrainian library in Moscow after a search found what they called “anti-Russian propaganda”. …read more Source:...
Reading the Pussy Riot act
Nadya Tolokonnikova, of female punk protest collective Pussy Riot, on the danger of UK conservatism, living in Moscow, and how the middle-class anti-Putin movement is waning. “Moscow calling!” The Belarusian rock band Brutto tear into their adaptation of the Clash classic. A roar erupts from the audience packing out Koko, the opulent late...
The Guardian film show extra podcast: Sex change controversy, 1D or 007 and Emperor Palpatine takes back power
The Guardian’s daily film news podcast. Now showing… Tomboy thriller causes controversy, a younger – tuneful – James Bond and the shock election bringing Emperor Palpatine back into power … …read more Source: The...
Director of Ukrainian library in Moscow detained for ‘extremism’
The 58-year-old library head faces jail for storing books written by a Ukrainian nationalist writer, in a case denounced as political persecution …read more Source: The...
‘Emperor Palpatine’ wins Ukraine city council election
A 25-year-old man who works as ‘emperor’ for ‘LLC Palpatine Finance Group’ won a local government seat during a race that saw many Star Wars-themed names in the runningThe PR campaign for Star Wars: The Force Awakens saw an unexpected and unintended boost this week after a candidate known as Emperor Palpatine won a seat during a...
Babushkas of Chernobyl trailer: women who refused to leave the dead zone – video
Watch the trailer for filmmakers Holly Morris and Anne Bogart’s documentary about the extraordinary survival story of the Ukrainian women who refused to leave their homes following the nuclear disaster in 1986. The film follows the community living and working within the exclusion zone, which also includes scientists, bureaucrats and...
Russian police detain director of Ukrainian library in Moscow
Investigative committee tells court to arrest Natalya Sharina over ‘anti-Russian propaganda’Russian police detained the director of a Ukrainian library in Moscow on suspicion of inciting ethnic hatred, in the latest twist of the ongoing standoff between the two nations.The Russian investigative committee said in a statement on Thursday it...
Chernobyl’s babushkas – the women who refused to leave the exclusion zone
A new documentary follows the unlikely rebel grandmothers who returned to their radioactive homes after the nuclear disasterOn 26 April 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s reactor No 4 blew up after a cooling test. The resulting nuclear fire lasted 10 days, spewing 400 times as much radiation as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Today...
