Since Russia started its assault on Ukraine, China has taken a rather neutral stance on the conflict, calling for dialogue and negotiations. But for Vita Golod and Dmytro Yefremov, writing in Ukrainian news website Livy Bereg, the country’s rhetoric “is gradually taking on new undertones.” Chines.
Journalist Carolina Drüten traveled undercover to Tiraspol, the de facto capital of the pro-Russian separatist republic of Transnistria, on the edge of Moldova. Russian soldiers have been stationed in Transnistria since Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, b.
• Star dancers quit Bolshoi Ballet over Ukraine: Two dancers of the legendary Bolshoi Theater announced their resignation this week. Brazilian David Motta Soares, who moved to Moscow 12 years ago to join the Bolshoi dance school, and Italian Jacopo Tissi, left the company to protest the invasion of .
• Colombian voters head to the polls on Sunday, March 13, to elect party candidates and congressional representatives. The election is expected to confirm a shift left for the country, and pave the way for Senator Gustavo Petro to potentially become the country’s first leftist leader in the upcoming.