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Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to extensive investigations by Bellingcat and various Western media into the poisoning of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. During his annual news conference on December 17, Putin made the claim, without any evidence, that the media outlets were merely laundering U.S. intelligence materials. He also said that if Russian security services had wanted to poison Navalny, they would have finished the job. Also read “
Belarusian blogger Ihar Losik, who has been recognized by rights organizations as a political prisoner, has started a hunger strike to protest a new charge against him. Fellow blogger Anton Matolka said that Losik was additionally charged on December 15 with helping prepare mass disorder. Losik was initially charged in June with helping prepare for violations of public order, which has a maximum punishment of three years in prison. If found guilty of the lates
The regime stood out again.
Now, in the mornings, employees of housing and communal services pick out and hollow out white-red-white flags from under the ice on rivers and reservoirs. This is the know-how of the Belarusian protesters. With the onset of winter and frost, they came up with the idea of literally letting go of the white-red-white flags for free swimming. They freeze into the water overnight, and you have to sweat a lot to get them. Now, instead of sprinkling the paths with sand in the morning, the communal workers take hammers, crowbars, and hatchets in their hands and go to cut down flags from under the ice. And this is also a very troublesome business.
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