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The struggle for a democratic Ukraine goes on, 20 years after my father’s abduction
The anti-corruption journalist Georgiy Gongadze was murdered two decades ago. Young Ukrainians must not give up his mission. Curiously my father, Georgiy Gongadze, an icon of Ukrainian journalism, was born not in Ukraine but in Tbilisi, the capital of Soviet Georgia, in 1969. In the early 1990s he became a youth activist, travelling through the...
2,000 Hasidic Jews gather at Ukraine’s border where they are barred entry from Belarus
Kiev has accused Lukashenko of manufacturing the crisis by giving the pilgrims hope that they could cross in retaliation for Ukraine’s support for the recent pro-democracy protests. …read more Source:: Daily...
Bored of Covid rules, Russians are kicking back on the Black Sea
With little appetite to return to self-isolation, and social-distancing fatigue setting in, many in Russia now see the pandemic as a closed issue. Nothing typically happens in Russia in August. As a rule, the final month of summer is when the big cities empty out, their inhabitants making for their dachas or to seaside resorts, leaving their...
Jewish New Year: Virus restrictions thwart pilgrims on Ukraine-Belarus border
Ukraine’s coronavirus restrictions thwart a pilgrimage of Hasidic Jews, with hundreds stuck. …read more Source::...
Judge in spotlight as Ukraine’s anti-corruption drive hits buffers
Extraordinary allegations suggest President Volodymyr Zelensky is struggling to keep promises on graft …read more Source:: Financial...
Angela Merkel is losing patience with Vladimir Putin
VLADIMIR PUTIN and his officials refuse to utter the name of Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s leading opponent, in public. But in Berlin, where Mr Navalny has been recuperating in hospital since his poisoning in Siberia on August 20th, he is the talk of the town. Mercifully, on September 7th he emerged from a medically induced coma. German...
Why the Internal Market Bill makes a no-deal Brexit much more likely
A change to the Irish border protocol would not be a “limited” tweak to international law. How unusual is the government’s plan to break international law in a “specific and limited way” with the Internal Market Bill, and is the government really planning to do it? Those are the questions being raised in today’s papers, and by MPs,...
Belarus: Opposition figure ‘climbed through car window’ to avoid expulsion
Activist Ivan Kravtsov says Maria Kolesnikova tore up her passport to avoid being expelled to Ukraine. …read more Source::...
Prominent Belarus opposition leader detained on Ukraine border
One of Belarus’s most prominent opposition leaders, Maria Kolesnikova, has been detained by state security at the border between Belarus and Ukraine almost 24 hours after she was abducted from the centre of Minsk by masked men. …read more Source:: Sky...
Belarus opposition leader Kolesnikova detained at Ukraine border
Authorities say she tried to leave the country with two colleagues …read more Source:: Financial...
