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Putin claims he's cancelling public celebrations over safety fears. The truth is more humiliating | Samantha de Bendern

May is traditionally a month for public celebration in Russia, with massive public processions on 1 May for Labour Day and military parades on 9 May for Victory Day, a holiday commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.Not so in 2023.Russia's biggest trade union cancelled its traditional Labour Day demonstrations because of the heightened risk of terrorist activity, while regions near the Ukrainian border called off Victory Day parades so as to not provoke the Ukrainian army.
Russian fighter Jets flying in International airspace with their transponders off.

Russia-Ukraine war live: Lavrov blames west for deadlock over grain deal; two killed in Kharkiv museum attack

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature A little more from Lavrov the foreign minister also warned the European Union is becoming militarized at a record rate and aggressive in its goal of containing Russia.
RT @Billbrowder: Because of the ICC arrest warrant against Putin, South Africa considers withdrawing from the ICC. Every time I see South A…

Media: South Africa considers withdrawing fro...

Media: South Africa considers withdrawing from ICC.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said his country's governing political party decided it would be "prudent" to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), Al Jazeera reported on April 25.
South Africa's potential withdrawal from the ICC is due to its "unfair treatment" of other countries, according to Ramaphosa. ...

Freedom needs to be better supplied than tyranny. If democracies stand firm, Putin's war on Ukraine will fail | Simon McDonald and others

Simon McDonald Christoph Heusgen Stephane Abrial Jim Jones Stefano Stefanini When Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine on 24 February 2022, he flagrantly violated international law and committed a breach of the UN charter.Denying Ukraine's right to exist, he used massive force to try to erase it from the map of Europe, leaving an ever-increasing trail of gross human rights abuses and war crimes in the process.

Russia accidentally bombs its own city Belgorod, injuring at least two

A large explosion hit the Russian city of Belgorod late Thursday, and the Defense Ministry said one of its Su-34 warplanes accidentally discharged ammunition over the city about 25 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.The government gave no further details.Belgorod regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the blast injured at least two people, damaged homes and left a crater about 20 metres across the city.
RT @AnarchoTerran: Don't vacation in Egypt! Don't buy Egyptian products!

Washington Post: Leaked US documents indicate ...

Washington Post: Leaked US documents indicate Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia.
Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi recently ordered subordinates to produce up to 40,000 rockets to be covertly shipped to Russia, according to a document obtained by the WaPo.
"In the document, Sisi instructs the officials to keep the production and shipment of the rockets secret 'to avoid problems with the West,'" the Washington Post reports.
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