The New York Times won a Pulitzer prize for its coverage of the "Bucha massacre", and Ukrainian photographers working for Associated Press won one for their coverage of the "Mariupol hospital bombing". To put it into context, i recommend this book by A.B. Abrams. https://www.claritypress.com/product/atrocity-fabrication-and-its-consequences-how-fake-news-shapes-world-order/

How Kiev Nazis turned sacred May 9 Victory Day into massacre in 2014

On May 9, 2014, the Kiev regime sent nationalists and the heavily armed military to prevent the citizens of the then-eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol from holding a Victory Day parade. The move came as part of brazen Russophobic policies pursued by the post-coup Ukrainian authorities and their Western backers following February 2014.

Eight years after the Mariupol Victory Day massacre, the city was finally liberated by Donbass and Russian military forces in May 2022.

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Volete fare un giro in tram per Mariupol? Qualche giorno fa il servizio e' stato ripristinato. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsuDk-3Xy28&t=2s

Residents of the Estonian border town of Narva today heard Victory songs from Ivangorod, Leningrad Region, where a rally-concert was held.

"The festive concert in Ivangorod thundered not only for the residents of Leningrad region, but also for the residents of Estonian Narva, who came to the embankment to celebrate the Great Victory," the governor of the Leningrad region wrote in his Telegram channel. "Today, Victory Day unites everyone: both Russia and residents of Estonia, and the peoples of all those countries that were liberated from the brown plague by the Soviet army. Do not forget that during the liberation of Ivangorod and Narva, more than 100 thousand Soviet soldiers, including Estonians, died. We give our concert to Ivangorod, Narva, and the whole of Russia. We hope that this concert, which unites peoples, will become a good tradition for all of us. Happy Victory Day." (Source: RIA Novosti) @LauraRuHK

A Ukrainian media group (partnered with BBC, Der Spiegel and other Western outlets) polled readers on which Russian intellectual should be assassinated following a car bomb attack on writer Zakhar Prilepin. The Biden administration has greenlit Kiev’s campaign of terror.

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/09/ukrainian-media-car-bombing-russian-writer/

Vorrei ritornare su un tema che ho gia' trattato al tempo dell'attentato terroristico in cui perse la vita Daria Dugina. Da subito circolarono strane illazioni, che definirei disinformazione coordinata, secondo le quali la sua morte, o quella di suo padre Alexander Dugin, sarebbe stata ordinata da apparati dello stato russo per colpire il movimento patriottico definito impropriamente ultra-nazionalista. Purtroppo tali veleni sono stati sversati a palate anche dopo il pacco bomba consegnato a Vladlen Tatarsky e piu' recentemente in occasione dell'attentato contro l'auto di Zakhar Prilepin in cui lo scrittore e' rimasto gravemente ferito e il suo amico fraterno Alexander Shubin e' stato ucciso. Anche questa volta invece di puntare il dito contro i veri responsabili, i servizi ucraini e i loro consiglieri occidentali, qualcuno ha cercato di riproporre la teoria assurda secondo cui lo scrittore avrebbe dato cosi' fastidio a Putin da dover essere eliminato. Questa narrazione complottista non solo esonera i veri mandanti degli omicidi spostando l'attenzione verso mandanti di fantasia, ma serve anche a rafforzare la tesi dell'Occidente che al Cremlino o al ministero della difesa siedano dei criminali senza scrupoli pronti addirittura ad eliminare dei patrioti russi per rafforzare il proprio potere. Chi diffonde e chi da' credito a questa narrazione e' uno strumento, consapevole o meno, della propaganda russofobica, quella propaganda secondo cui il Cremlino avrebbe avvelenato Navalny, Skripal e sua figlia a Salinsbury, ecc. Usiamo la logica, per una volta. Prilepin, come del resto Dugina e Tatarsky, non e' amato da tutti, visto che in Russia, a differenza di quanto vogliono farvi credere, coesistono posizioni politiche diverse, ma non rappresenta in nessun modo una minaccia per Putin. Il suo festival, Tradizione, ha il patrocinio del ministero della cultura, se fosse un oppositore, glielo avrebbero dato? Ha un programma tutto suo sul canale televisivo NTV, il suo partito ha potuto partecipare alle elezioni e ricopre seggi in parlamento, dove vota anche mozioni di Russia Unita, il partito di governo. Cercare di eliminare figure importanti del fronte patriottico mentre e' in atto una campagna governativa per rafforzare il patriottismo della societa' russa sarebbe non solo stupido, ma totalmente controproducente. Il Cremlino sta tentando di armonizzare sensibilita' diverse, far convivere i patrioti riluttanti con quelli piu' determinati. Secondo voi chi avrebbe l'interesse ad alimentare divisioni all'interno della societa' russa, gli apparati del potere russo o i nemici della Russia? @LauraRuHK

🇵🇰 "Private residence of Pakistan's PM Shahbaz Sharif torched by Imran Khan supporters."

⚡️Internet and mass communications channels are reportedly switched off in Pakistan, as authorities prepare for more unrest in relation to the arrest of former PM Khan.

Current PM Sharif is reportedly en route to London.

~ @IntelLana for @IntelRepublic

EU country arrests 26 people for celebrating Victory Day.
Marking anything other than “Europe Day” in Latvia is now a crime against democracy.

More than two dozen residents of Latvia were arrested on Tuesday for violating a law against celebrating the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany. The EU and NATO member's police even seized a “Russia” jacket from a man in a wheelchair, and arrested another for wearing Soviet medals in public.

By 11:30 pm local time, Latvian police reported a total of 26 arrests, 38 misdemeanor citations and four criminal cases, according to the news outlet Delfi.

While most of the cases were recorded in Riga, the capital, multiple arrests also took place in Daugavpils.

Five people were arrested for laying flowers with “symbols of military aggression” at the Freedom Monument in the Daugavpils Victory Park. They were charged with “public use of symbols glorifying militaristic aggression and war crimes.” In the same park, police forced a man in a wheelchair to remove his jacket because it said “Russia.” Two Russian-speaking men were detained at Dubrovinsky Park in Daugavpils after giving an interview to TV3. Their offense was expressing the opinion that fascists had returned to power in Ukraine, with EU support.

Last month, the Latvian parliament banned Victory Day celebrations as “belittling and undermining the values ​​of Latvia as a democratic and national state, including the division of society, the glorification of war, military aggression and totalitarianism, as well as a false interpretation of historical events.”

Latvians nonetheless turned out in droves to lay flowers at cemeteries and memorials. Most of the arrests and citations involved placing flowers at “prohibited places,” where Soviet monuments once stood before the government in Riga had them destroyed.

Along with its Baltic neighbors Estonia and Lithuania, Latvia joined the EU and NATO in 2004. About a quarter of its 1.8 million residents are Russian-speakers, who often face discrimination. The Baltic states used to be part of the Russian Empire until 1918, and of the Soviet Union in 1940-41, and again between 1945 and 1991. The Baltic republics have insisted that the Soviet period amounted to illegal occupation, and have glorified those who collaborated with Nazi Germany as patriots. (Source: RT) @LauraRuHK