Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Anti-Corruption Activists Tied To Navalny Expose Putin Ownership Of Mystery Yacht
Eilmeldung: Putin: Russland akzeptiert für Gas-Lieferungen nach Europa nur noch Rubel
Interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy | DW News
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a true hero! – Mark
Polish Citizens Join Army in Response to Russian Invasion of Ukraine - BBC News
Mar 23, 2022 • With Russia invading Ukraine some Poles fear that they could be next to be targeted by President Putin.
Poland has announced that it will increased military spending and there has been a sharp increase in people joining Poland’s territorial defence force.
While some are choosing to join up others are making sure that their cars are filled with fuel and that they have a bag packed ready to flee the country.
Poland has announced that it will increased military spending and there has been a sharp increase in people joining Poland’s territorial defence force.
While some are choosing to join up others are making sure that their cars are filled with fuel and that they have a bag packed ready to flee the country.
« Joe Biden veut consolider l’Europe dans un monde à l’équilibre dangereusement instable »
LE MONDE : Le président américain, comme ses prédécesseurs, voulait tourner sa diplomatie vers l’Asie. Las, il est sans cesse ramené à l’Europe, avec le choc imprévu de la guerre en Ukraine. Un conflit que la Chine surveille aussi de près, analyse, dans sa chronique, Sylvie Kauffmann, éditorialiste au « Monde ».
Chronique. Joe Biden avait deux objectifs en arrivant à la Maison Blanche il y a quatorze mois : à l’intérieur, la relance de l’économie de son pays, dévastée par la pandémie de Covid-19 ; et à l’extérieur, la maîtrise de la rivalité sino-américaine, grand enjeu géopolitique du XXIe siècle. Mais le voilà, ce mercredi 23 mars, de nouveau en train d’atterrir à Bruxelles. Obstinément rappelé à l’ordre par la vieille Europe, lui qui ne rêve que d’Orient et de Delaware.
Ni lui ni personne n’avait prévu le retour de la guerre en Europe. Le choc est si brutal qu’en l’espace d’un mois, le monde s’est retrouvé en équilibre instable – dangereusement instable. Le président américain vient donc, par cette tournée décidée à la hâte, consolider ce qui peut l’être face à la Russie, éviter les fissures dans le bloc transatlantique. » | Sylvie Kauffmann, Editorialiste au « Monde » | mercredi 23 mars 2022
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Chronique. Joe Biden avait deux objectifs en arrivant à la Maison Blanche il y a quatorze mois : à l’intérieur, la relance de l’économie de son pays, dévastée par la pandémie de Covid-19 ; et à l’extérieur, la maîtrise de la rivalité sino-américaine, grand enjeu géopolitique du XXIe siècle. Mais le voilà, ce mercredi 23 mars, de nouveau en train d’atterrir à Bruxelles. Obstinément rappelé à l’ordre par la vieille Europe, lui qui ne rêve que d’Orient et de Delaware.
Ni lui ni personne n’avait prévu le retour de la guerre en Europe. Le choc est si brutal qu’en l’espace d’un mois, le monde s’est retrouvé en équilibre instable – dangereusement instable. Le président américain vient donc, par cette tournée décidée à la hâte, consolider ce qui peut l’être face à la Russie, éviter les fissures dans le bloc transatlantique. » | Sylvie Kauffmann, Editorialiste au « Monde » | mercredi 23 mars 2022
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US-Verteidigungsministerium sieht Ukrainer auf dem Vormarsch
This is good news! It is difficult to win wars on the defensive. The best defence is always offence! Die beste Verteidigung ist immer der Angriff!– © Mark
As Russia Stalls in Ukraine, Dissent Brews Over Putin’s Leadership
In January, the head of a group of serving and retired Russian military officers declared that invading Ukraine would be “pointless and extremely dangerous.” It would kill thousands, he said, make Russians and Ukrainians enemies for life, risk a war with NATO and threaten “the existence of Russia itself as a state.”
To many Russians, that seemed like a far-fetched scenario, since few imagined that an invasion of Ukraine was really possible. But two months later, as Russia’s advance stalls in Ukraine, the prophecy looms large. Reached by phone this week, the retired general who authored the declaration, Leonid Ivashov, said he stood by it, though he could not speak freely given Russia’s wartime censorship: “I do not disavow what I said.”
In Russia, the slow going and the heavy toll of President Vladimir V. Putin’s war on Ukraine are setting off questions about his military’s planning capability, his confidence in his top spies and loyal defense minister, and the quality of the intelligence that reaches him. It also shows the pitfalls of Mr. Putin’s top-down governance, in which officials and military officers have little leeway to make their own decisions and adapt to developments in real time.
The failures of Mr. Putin’s campaign are apparent in the striking number of senior military commanders believed to have been killed in the fighting. Ukraine says it has killed at least six Russian generals, while Russia acknowledges one of their deaths, along with that of the deputy commander of its Black Sea fleet. American officials say they cannot confirm the number of Russian troop deaths, but that Russia’s invasion plan appears to have been stymied by bad intelligence. » | Anton Troianovski and Michael Schwirtz | Published: Tuesday, March 22, 2022; Updated: Wednesday, March 23, 2022
“Live by the sword, die by the sword.” – There is a simple solution to this. Do unto Putin what Putin has done unto others! Give him a new experience: give him the ‘newbie’ experience! That will save thousands of people’s lives and will save Putin the misery and indignity of incarceration! It will then be a case of living by poison and dying by poison. – © Mark
‘We’re Going Back to a USSR’: Long Queues Return for Russian Shoppers as Sanctions Bite
THE GUARDIAN: After an hour and a half queuing for sugar, or worse still fighting for it in a market, Russians are feeling the effect of shortages caused by an unprecedented cutoff from the world
Muscovites queueing for bread in 1992. Russians are once again having to queue for essentials such as sugar and buckwheat. Photograph: Anatoly Sapronenkov/AFP/Getty Images
The lines for sugar in Saratov were hard not to compare to the Soviet era, part of a recent run on Russian staples that have revived fears that the Kremlin’s invasion in Ukraine will lead to a virtual slide back to the shortages or endless queues of the Soviet Union.
Bags of sugar and buckwheat began disappearing from local markets in early March, just a week after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. And when the local mayor’s office announced that it would hold special markets for people to buy the staples last week, hundreds showed up.
“People are sharing tips about where to get sugar. This is crazy,” said Viktor Nazarov, who said that his grandmother had tasked him with visiting the special market last weekend to stock up. “It’s sad and it’s funny. It feels like a month ago was fine and now we’re talking about the 1990s again, buying products because … we’re afraid they’ll disappear.”
After an hour and a half waiting at the city’s main square, he was limited to buying one bag of five kilograms, he said. Other videos shared on social media have shown fights for sugar in markets in other cities in Russia, all while officials have maintained that the shortage is part of an artificial crisis. » | Andrew Roth | Wednesday, March 23, 2022
They can blame their leader for this! This is all self-imposed. I have little sympathy with their suffering. Whatever they are suffering, it pales in comparison to the suffering of the Ukrainians. – © Mark
The lines for sugar in Saratov were hard not to compare to the Soviet era, part of a recent run on Russian staples that have revived fears that the Kremlin’s invasion in Ukraine will lead to a virtual slide back to the shortages or endless queues of the Soviet Union.
Bags of sugar and buckwheat began disappearing from local markets in early March, just a week after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. And when the local mayor’s office announced that it would hold special markets for people to buy the staples last week, hundreds showed up.
“People are sharing tips about where to get sugar. This is crazy,” said Viktor Nazarov, who said that his grandmother had tasked him with visiting the special market last weekend to stock up. “It’s sad and it’s funny. It feels like a month ago was fine and now we’re talking about the 1990s again, buying products because … we’re afraid they’ll disappear.”
After an hour and a half waiting at the city’s main square, he was limited to buying one bag of five kilograms, he said. Other videos shared on social media have shown fights for sugar in markets in other cities in Russia, all while officials have maintained that the shortage is part of an artificial crisis. » | Andrew Roth | Wednesday, March 23, 2022
They can blame their leader for this! This is all self-imposed. I have little sympathy with their suffering. Whatever they are suffering, it pales in comparison to the suffering of the Ukrainians. – © Mark
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Daniil Trifonov – Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66
Russian Oligarch Puts Million-Dollar Bounty on Vladimir Putin's Head | 60 Minutes Australia
Back in Business: Christianity's Second Coming in Russia | 60 Minutes Australia
Russian Exiles and the War in Ukraine | DW Documentary
Mar 22, 2022 • Day by day, tens of thousands of Ukrainians flee the war. Critics of the Kremlin are leaving Russia, as well. They oppose President Vladimir Putin's war of aggression and are suffering the consequences of a clampdown on freedom of expression. Berlin has become a gathering point for Russians who oppose invasion of Ukraine.
Civil rights activist Olga Romanova was born in Russia. In 2017, she fled to Berlin because she no longer felt safe in her own country. Now, she’s doing whatever she can to help the thousands of Ukrainians and Russians arriving daily in Germany’s capital. One of them is Lev Vladov, from Chelyabinsk, east of the Ural Mountains. He criticized Russia's invasion of Ukraine on his blog and now fears for his life.
Civil rights activist Olga Romanova was born in Russia. In 2017, she fled to Berlin because she no longer felt safe in her own country. Now, she’s doing whatever she can to help the thousands of Ukrainians and Russians arriving daily in Germany’s capital. One of them is Lev Vladov, from Chelyabinsk, east of the Ural Mountains. He criticized Russia's invasion of Ukraine on his blog and now fears for his life.
Petition Calls for Vladimir Putin’s ‘Eva Braun’ Alina Kabaeva to ‘Return to Her Führer’
THE TIMES: Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition to demand the deportation of Vladimir Putin’s rumoured lover, the former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, from Switzerland.
The petition describes Kabaeva as the “wife of a delusional dictator”, and says that “Eva Braun returned to her Führer ”. Over 56,000 people have signed it so far.
Kabaeva, 38, drew the attention of Swiss and international press in 2015, when she reportedly gave birth to a girl in the Italian-speaking city of Lugano, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. Putin was widely believed to be the child’s father. » | Felix Light | Monday, March 21, 2022
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« God Save Russia » | Le patriarche et le tsar | ARTE
Jun 20, 2019 • Parce qu’il a bien compris la capacité fédératrice de l'Église orthodoxe russe, Vladimir Poutine l’instrumentalise pour asseoir son emprise sur la société et consolider sa politique étrangère. Foi mode d’emploi.
La cathédrale au dôme doré, bâtie au pied de la tour Eiffel, est l'une de ses démonstrations de puissance. À la tête de cent millions de croyants, Kirill, seizième patriarche orthodoxe de Moscou et de toute la Russie, est l'un des dix hommes les plus influents du pays. Cet ambitieux patriarche, qui a assis son pouvoir face à d'autres églises plus anciennes mais moins dynamiques, assume désormais un rôle central dans l'organisation de la société russe et dans la politique, intérieure comme extérieure, de Vladimir Poutine. Chaque année, toute la classe politique se presse dans sa cathédrale moscovite pour y écouter son discours réactionnaire, ultraconservateur, critique du recul des valeurs morales dans un monde qu'il voit menacé par le libéralisme occidental. Son but ? Restaurer la Sainte-Russie, où tsar et patriarche avançaient main dans la main. Ce qui n'est pas pour déplaire à Vladimir Poutine qui, ayant vite compris le potentiel fédérateur de Kirill et de l’Église orthodoxe, s’est employé à redresser l'institution, moribonde lors de son accession au pouvoir. Le patriarche, lui, entend faire reculer la sécularisation de la société, devenue peu pratiquante. Soucieux d’étendre encore son emprise sur la société russe, Poutine porte désormais sa foi en étendard.
Documentaire d'Alice Cohen (France, 2017, 56mn)
[Documentaire complet disponible jusqu'au 20 juin 2021]
La cathédrale au dôme doré, bâtie au pied de la tour Eiffel, est l'une de ses démonstrations de puissance. À la tête de cent millions de croyants, Kirill, seizième patriarche orthodoxe de Moscou et de toute la Russie, est l'un des dix hommes les plus influents du pays. Cet ambitieux patriarche, qui a assis son pouvoir face à d'autres églises plus anciennes mais moins dynamiques, assume désormais un rôle central dans l'organisation de la société russe et dans la politique, intérieure comme extérieure, de Vladimir Poutine. Chaque année, toute la classe politique se presse dans sa cathédrale moscovite pour y écouter son discours réactionnaire, ultraconservateur, critique du recul des valeurs morales dans un monde qu'il voit menacé par le libéralisme occidental. Son but ? Restaurer la Sainte-Russie, où tsar et patriarche avançaient main dans la main. Ce qui n'est pas pour déplaire à Vladimir Poutine qui, ayant vite compris le potentiel fédérateur de Kirill et de l’Église orthodoxe, s’est employé à redresser l'institution, moribonde lors de son accession au pouvoir. Le patriarche, lui, entend faire reculer la sécularisation de la société, devenue peu pratiquante. Soucieux d’étendre encore son emprise sur la société russe, Poutine porte désormais sa foi en étendard.
Documentaire d'Alice Cohen (France, 2017, 56mn)
[Documentaire complet disponible jusqu'au 20 juin 2021]
Will Belarus Join Russia's Invasion of Ukraine? | DW News
The UK's Reputation in Tatters under Boris Johnson
Russian Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Convicted of Fraud, Facing up to a 13-year Prison Sentence
Mar 22, 2022 • Longtime Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been found guilty of fraud and embezzlement charges, as well as contempt of court, according to a verdict handed down on Tuesday. He faces up to a 13-year prison sentence. Navalny and his supporters have decried the charges as politically motivated. Navalny is already serving a two-and-a-half year sentence at a prison camp east of Moscow for parole violations related to charges he says were trumped up to thwart his attempts to run for office. Both Navalny and rights groups have said he has been tortured in prison.
Who is Alexei Navalny?
Frustrated with the corruption in the Russian government, Navalny co-founded the Russia of the Future party nearly a decade ago to oppose President Vladimir Putin's United Russia. He amassed a major following on social media, and has been arrested multiple times during anti-government protests. In August 2020, Navalny was the target of suspected assassination attempt when he was poisoned with Novichok nerve agent. He spent a month recovering in a Berlin hospital. Since his arrest, many of his closest allies have left Russia after facing multiple criminal charges. His Foundation for Fighting Corruption and a network of nearly 40 regional offices were outlawed as "extremist" and Navalny has been added to an official list of terrorists.
Who is Alexei Navalny?
Frustrated with the corruption in the Russian government, Navalny co-founded the Russia of the Future party nearly a decade ago to oppose President Vladimir Putin's United Russia. He amassed a major following on social media, and has been arrested multiple times during anti-government protests. In August 2020, Navalny was the target of suspected assassination attempt when he was poisoned with Novichok nerve agent. He spent a month recovering in a Berlin hospital. Since his arrest, many of his closest allies have left Russia after facing multiple criminal charges. His Foundation for Fighting Corruption and a network of nearly 40 regional offices were outlawed as "extremist" and Navalny has been added to an official list of terrorists.
Die Welt der russischen Oligarchen | SPIEGEL TV
Russia May Use Chemical and Biological Weapons in Ukraine, US President Biden Says - BBC News
Mar 22, 2022 • US President Biden believes Russia's Vladimir Putin's "back is against the wall", warning he may use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine.
Mr Biden also said that intelligence indicated a growing Russian cyber threat to the US. He said Russia was "exploring" cyber attack, but the US would use "every tool" to prevent and respond to such a move.
Mr Biden suggested Moscow could act in retaliation for sanctions imposed on it after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Biden also said that intelligence indicated a growing Russian cyber threat to the US. He said Russia was "exploring" cyber attack, but the US would use "every tool" to prevent and respond to such a move.
Mr Biden suggested Moscow could act in retaliation for sanctions imposed on it after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Russian Actress Speaks Out after Father Appears at Putin's Rally
Monday, March 21, 2022
Fears Putin Will Move Towards a 'Genocidal Strategy' to Force Zelenskyy's Surrender Grow
Putin Threatens to Break Relations with US, a Step Not Even Taken During Cold War
Rich Russians | Full Documentary | Real Stories
Guerre en Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky appelle l’UE à cesser tout «commerce» avec la Russie
LE FIGARO : Le président ukrainien a notamment demandé aux Européens de refuser les ressources énergétiques de la Russie, à l’origine de l’invasion de son pays.
Alors que les ministres des Affaires étrangères et de la Défense de l’Union européenne (UE) se réunissaient à Bruxelles pour envisager de nouvelles sanctions contre la Russie, le président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, a appelé l’UE, l’Allemagne en particulier, à cesser tout «commerce» avec la Russie, notamment à refuser ses ressources énergétiques.
«Pas d’euros pour les occupants, fermez-leur tous vos ports, ne leur envoyez pas vos biens, refusez les ressources énergétiques», a-t-il plaidé sur Telegram. «Sans commerce avec vous, sans vos entreprises et vos banques, la Russie n’aura plus d’argent pour cette guerre.» Mais les Européens, très dépendants des hydrocarbures russes, ont exclu de sanctionner ce secteur. «Un tel embargo aurait une influence très sérieuse sur le marché mondial du pétrole, une influence néfaste sur le marché énergétique en Europe », a mis en garde le Kremlin. » | Par Georges Malbrunot | lundi 21 mars 2022
War and Lies: Trump Republicans Confronted with Past Putin Praise on TV
Mehdi Hasan Introduces You to Putin’s Favorite Fascist Philosopher
$17bn of Global Assets Linked to 35 Russians with Alleged Ties to Putin
THE GUARDIAN: International collaboration tracks wealth of oligarchs and officials accused by western governments of being president’s supporters
More than $17bn (£13bn) of global assets – including offshore bank accounts, yachts, private jets and luxury properties in London, Tuscany and the French Riviera – have been linked to 35 oligarchs and Russian officials alleged to have close ties to Vladimir Putin.
Today, the Guardian, working in a partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project , Süddeutsche Zeitung and other international news organisations, is unveiling the initial research in an ongoing project to track the wealth of Russia’s most powerful operators.
The Russian asset tracker project will start by focusing on a list of 35 men and women named last year as Putin’s alleged enablers by the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. It will record assets outside Russia where the reporting partners have seen evidence connecting them to these individuals.
Navalny’s organisation wrote to western governments requesting the names on its list be considered for sanctions and all but two have since been blacklisted by either the US, EU, UK or Canada. » | Simon Goodley, Kalyeena Makortoff and Jasper Jolly | Monday, March 21, 2022
More than $17bn (£13bn) of global assets – including offshore bank accounts, yachts, private jets and luxury properties in London, Tuscany and the French Riviera – have been linked to 35 oligarchs and Russian officials alleged to have close ties to Vladimir Putin.
Today, the Guardian, working in a partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project , Süddeutsche Zeitung and other international news organisations, is unveiling the initial research in an ongoing project to track the wealth of Russia’s most powerful operators.
The Russian asset tracker project will start by focusing on a list of 35 men and women named last year as Putin’s alleged enablers by the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. It will record assets outside Russia where the reporting partners have seen evidence connecting them to these individuals.
Navalny’s organisation wrote to western governments requesting the names on its list be considered for sanctions and all but two have since been blacklisted by either the US, EU, UK or Canada. » | Simon Goodley, Kalyeena Makortoff and Jasper Jolly | Monday, March 21, 2022
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Renault Resumes Car Production in Moscow as Rivals Cut Ties with Russia
THE GUARDIAN: Carmaker’s move backed by French government as Nestlé also comes under pressure to withdraw business
Renault employs 40,000 people in Russia. Photograph: Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters
The French carmaker Renault has resumed manufacturing in its plants in Moscow, bucking the trend of many other large global companies that have cut ties with Russia over its war on Ukraine.
Renault had suspended production at the plant last month, citing logistical problems after the invasion of Ukraine on Vladimir Putin’s orders. However, Renault’s decision to restart manufacturing has the backing of the French government, which is its main shareholder, according to sources cited by Reuters.
Renault has owned a controlling two-thirds stake in the Russian carmaker Avtovaz since late 2016, after first investing in what was then a fast-growing market in 2007. That means it has larger operations in the country than most other European rivals, with 40,000 local employees, posing a huge challenge as the US, UK and EU governments try to isolate Russia economically. » | Jasper Jolly and Sarah Butler | Monday, March 21, 2022
The French carmaker Renault has resumed manufacturing in its plants in Moscow, bucking the trend of many other large global companies that have cut ties with Russia over its war on Ukraine.
Renault had suspended production at the plant last month, citing logistical problems after the invasion of Ukraine on Vladimir Putin’s orders. However, Renault’s decision to restart manufacturing has the backing of the French government, which is its main shareholder, according to sources cited by Reuters.
Renault has owned a controlling two-thirds stake in the Russian carmaker Avtovaz since late 2016, after first investing in what was then a fast-growing market in 2007. That means it has larger operations in the country than most other European rivals, with 40,000 local employees, posing a huge challenge as the US, UK and EU governments try to isolate Russia economically. » | Jasper Jolly and Sarah Butler | Monday, March 21, 2022
« Les Ukrainiens aimaient Zelensky non parce qu’il était drôle, mais parce qu’il était pertinent » : Alexandre Rodnianski, producteur sur plusieurs fronts
LE MONDE : Proche de l’ancien comédien devenu président, cet Ukrainien, pilier du cinéma russe, joue les intermédiaires entre les deux camps depuis le début de la guerre, le 24 février.
C’est un minivan, comme tant d’autres, venu recueillir quatre octogénaires à la frontière qui sépare la Pologne de l’Ukraine. De vieilles parentes qu’il faut, comme tant d’autres, mettre à l’abri des bombes russes, en cette mi-mars plombée. Au volant, l’Ukrainien Alexandre Rodnianski, accompagné de sa femme, Valeriya. Tous deux sont producteurs. Comment deviner que ces mains-là œuvrent, en parallèle, à la résolution du conflit ?
Le 24 février, vers 5 heures du matin, Alexandre Rodnianski, 60 ans, reçoit un appel de son fils, Alexandre Rodnianski Jr. « Papa, ils ont commencé », lâche ce dernier, tandis que les premiers missiles déferlent sur la banlieue de Kiev. Le père a longtemps tenu les rênes de la télévision ukrainienne, puis de l’audiovisuel russe, dans son versant tant commercial qu’indépendant. Diplômé de Princeton, aux Etats-Unis, le fils est le conseiller économique du président ukrainien, l’ex-acteur Volodymyr Zelensky. » | Par Aureliano Tonet | lundi 21 mars 2022
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C’est un minivan, comme tant d’autres, venu recueillir quatre octogénaires à la frontière qui sépare la Pologne de l’Ukraine. De vieilles parentes qu’il faut, comme tant d’autres, mettre à l’abri des bombes russes, en cette mi-mars plombée. Au volant, l’Ukrainien Alexandre Rodnianski, accompagné de sa femme, Valeriya. Tous deux sont producteurs. Comment deviner que ces mains-là œuvrent, en parallèle, à la résolution du conflit ?
Le 24 février, vers 5 heures du matin, Alexandre Rodnianski, 60 ans, reçoit un appel de son fils, Alexandre Rodnianski Jr. « Papa, ils ont commencé », lâche ce dernier, tandis que les premiers missiles déferlent sur la banlieue de Kiev. Le père a longtemps tenu les rênes de la télévision ukrainienne, puis de l’audiovisuel russe, dans son versant tant commercial qu’indépendant. Diplômé de Princeton, aux Etats-Unis, le fils est le conseiller économique du président ukrainien, l’ex-acteur Volodymyr Zelensky. » | Par Aureliano Tonet | lundi 21 mars 2022
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Israel empört über Selenskyjs Holocaust-Vergleiche
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Wolodymyr Selenskyj fordert vor Knesset-Abgeordneten Waffenhilfe für die Ukraine. Registriert wird in Israel aber vor allem ein historischer Vergleich. Der ukrainische Präsident versucht, die Wogen zu glätten.
Wolodymyr Selenskyjs scharfe Kritik an Israel und seine historischen Vergleiche in einer Rede vor den Mitgliedern der Knesset haben in dem Land entschiedenen Widerspruch hervorgerufen. Der ukrainische Präsident hatte sich am Sonntagabend in einer live übertragenen Videoansprache an die Parlamentarier und die Regierung gewandt. Darin geißelte er Israel für seine Weigerung, der Ukraine Waffen wie etwa das Raketenabwehrsystem „Iron Dome“ zur Verfügung zu stellen, um sich gegen die russische Invasion zu wehren.
Auch dass Israel sich den Sanktionen gegen Russland bislang nicht angeschlossen habe und nur beschränkt ukrainische Flüchtlinge aufnehme, kritisierte er. Dies sei die Entscheidung des israelischen Volks, sagte Selenskyj, aber „ihr müsst dann mit eurer Antwort leben“.
Selenskyj behauptete in diesem Zusammenhang, die russische Führung verwende gegenüber der Ukraine die gleiche Sprache wie seinerzeit die Nazis, als sie den Völkermord an den Juden planten. „Ihr erinnert euch gut an die ‚Endlösung‘ der jüdischen Frage“, sagte er, an die israelischen Zuhörer gerichtet. „Hört euch an, was nun in Moskau gesagt wird, hört, wie sie diese Wörter wieder sagen: ‚Endlösung‘. Aber dieses Mal in Bezug auf uns, auf die ukrainische Frage.“ » |Von Christian Meier, Tel Aviv | Montag, 21. März 2022
What Is an Oligarch? Here’s What You Need to Know about Russia’s Billionaires | Forbes
Browder on Putin: When You Believe Your Time Is Almost Up, You Start a War | Amanpour and Company
Russia Is Losing Tens of Thousands of Outward-Looking Young Professionals
THE NEW YORK TIMES: YEREVAN, Armenia — At the Lumen cafe in the Armenian capital, Russians arrive as soon as the doors open, ordering specialty coffees, opening up their sleek Apple laptops and trying to navigate a dwindling array of options for starting their lives over.
The background music and the sunlit interior are calming counterpoints to the frantic departures from their country, where they left behind parents, pets and the sense of home that all but vanished when Russia invaded Ukraine last month.
“This war was something I thought could never happen,” said Polina Loseva, 29, a web designer from Moscow working with a private Russian I.T. company that she did not want to name. “When it started, I felt that now, everything is possible. Already they are putting people in jail for some harmless words on Facebook. It was safer to leave.”
This is a different kind of exodus — tens of thousands of young, urban, multilingual professionals who are able to work remotely from almost anywhere, many of them in information technology or freelancers in creative industries. » | Jane Arraf | Sunday, March 20, 2022
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The background music and the sunlit interior are calming counterpoints to the frantic departures from their country, where they left behind parents, pets and the sense of home that all but vanished when Russia invaded Ukraine last month.
“This war was something I thought could never happen,” said Polina Loseva, 29, a web designer from Moscow working with a private Russian I.T. company that she did not want to name. “When it started, I felt that now, everything is possible. Already they are putting people in jail for some harmless words on Facebook. It was safer to leave.”
This is a different kind of exodus — tens of thousands of young, urban, multilingual professionals who are able to work remotely from almost anywhere, many of them in information technology or freelancers in creative industries. » | Jane Arraf | Sunday, March 20, 2022
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Sunday, March 20, 2022
Russia's Oligarchs: The Limits of Their Loyalty | The Agenda
Russians on Why They're Fleeing to Europe
Putin's Russia and the Ghost of the Romanovs | The Economist
Zelensky: Failed Putin Talks Would Mean a Third World War
Zelenskiy Compares Russian Offensive to Nazi Germany
THE GUARDIAN: Zelenskiy told Israeli legislators they would have to live with the choices they make on whether to help protect Ukraine against the Russian invasion.
Addressing the Knesset via video link on Sunday, he drew comparisons between the Russian offensive and the “final solution” – the plan by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jews.
Watch (Listen to) the speech here.
Addressing the Knesset via video link on Sunday, he drew comparisons between the Russian offensive and the “final solution” – the plan by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jews.
”He also questioned Israel’s reluctance to sell the Iron Dome defence system to Ukraine. He said:Russia denies targeting civilians in what it calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine. » | Nadia Khomami | Sunday, March 20, 2022
Everybody knows that your missile defence systems are the best and that you can definitely help our people, save the lives of Ukrainians, of Ukrainian Jews.
We can ask why we can’t receive weapons from you, why Israel has not imposed powerful sanctions on Russia or is not putting pressure on Russian business. Either way, the choice is yours to make, brothers and sisters, and you must then live with your answer, the people of Israel.
Watch (Listen to) the speech here.
Assad aux Emirats, étape-clé dans la normalisation du régime syrien
LE MONDE : La venue à Abou Dhabi du maître de Damas constitue sa première visite dans un pays arabe depuis le début du soulèvement en Syrie en mars 2011.
Rencontre entre le président syrien, Bachar Al-Assad, et le vice-premier ministre des Emirats arabes unis, le cheikh Mansour Ben Zayed Al Nahyane à Abou Dhabi, le 18 mars 2022. Photo fournie par la présidence syrienne. HASSAN AL MENHALI / PRESIDENCE SYRIENNE / AFP
C’est sa première visite dans un pays arabe depuis le déclenchement en 2011 du soulèvement qui a bien failli lui coûter son siège : le président syrien, Bachar Al-Assad, s’est rendu vendredi 18 mars aux Emirats arabes unis (EAU), où il s’est entretenu avec le dirigeant de fait de cette pétromonarchie, le prince héritier d’Abou Dhabi, Mohammed Ben Zayed. Ce déplacement constitue un pas important dans le sens d’une réintégration du maître de Damas sur la scène diplomatique arabe.
Traité comme un paria par la grande majorité des chancelleries de la planète, qui lui impute la destruction de son pays et la responsabilité de centaines de milliers de morts, Bachar Al-Assad n’était jusque-là sorti de Syrie, depuis 2011, que pour de brèves visites en Russie et en Iran, ses deux principaux alliés, dont l’aide militaire a été cruciale dans l’écrasement de la révolution. Coïncidence amère pour les opposants syriens, le voyage aux Emirats de leur bourreau est intervenu deux jours après la célébration du onzième anniversaire du début de la révolte, le 15 mars 2011. » | Par Benjamin Barthe | Samedi 19 mars 2022
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C’est sa première visite dans un pays arabe depuis le déclenchement en 2011 du soulèvement qui a bien failli lui coûter son siège : le président syrien, Bachar Al-Assad, s’est rendu vendredi 18 mars aux Emirats arabes unis (EAU), où il s’est entretenu avec le dirigeant de fait de cette pétromonarchie, le prince héritier d’Abou Dhabi, Mohammed Ben Zayed. Ce déplacement constitue un pas important dans le sens d’une réintégration du maître de Damas sur la scène diplomatique arabe.
Traité comme un paria par la grande majorité des chancelleries de la planète, qui lui impute la destruction de son pays et la responsabilité de centaines de milliers de morts, Bachar Al-Assad n’était jusque-là sorti de Syrie, depuis 2011, que pour de brèves visites en Russie et en Iran, ses deux principaux alliés, dont l’aide militaire a été cruciale dans l’écrasement de la révolution. Coïncidence amère pour les opposants syriens, le voyage aux Emirats de leur bourreau est intervenu deux jours après la célébration du onzième anniversaire du début de la révolte, le 15 mars 2011. » | Par Benjamin Barthe | Samedi 19 mars 2022
Article réservé aux abonnés
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