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Two men were fined for publicly listening to the song Good Evening, We Are From Ukraine in Crimea. Source: Russian human rights media project OVD-Info; Meduza, a Latvia-based Russian independent news outlet Details: The Russian-controlled Leninsky District Court of Crimea fined Lenur Khalilov and Dmytro Kamyshantsev 40,000 roubles (about US$4,000) each under the article on discrediting the Russian army.

Three women who were caught dancing to a Ukrainian song in Russian-occupied Crimea. Photo: screenshot from Krymsky Smersh Telegram A Russian-controlled court in occupied Crimea has fined three young women 15,000 roubles (approximately US$150) after they were caught dancing to a song by Verka Serdiuchka, a Ukrainian artist, in an Alushta water park.

Appropriating and rewriting foreign history has been a key aspect of Russia's imperialist narratives. This is especially true about the history of Ukraine, which Russia has sought to subjugate for centuries. Crediting Russia as being the sole successor of the medieval Kyivan Rus and laying claims to all of the lands it controlled, erasing histories of Ukrainian cities such as Kharkiv and Odesa and justifying attacks on them while also labeling artists and scientists who lived in Ukraine a...

Vladimir Putin's misguided views of Ukraine's independence are inaccurate, as history reveals, writes Susan Bothmann. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir

RIA Novosti observer Irina Alksnis in a column for Vz.ru claimed that Russia was not guided by historical attachment or a desire to regain areas previously governed by Russia. History has shown that Russia has not looked back after it sold Alaska and agreed to an independent Finland. In invading Ukraine, Russia was motivated by Realpolitik. Ukraine, as a failed state, posed a security threat and in addition offered Russia added bonuses in terms of demographic reinforcement, and an agricultural a...

According to Russian columnist Irina Alksnis, Russia's Ukraine policy is ruled by realism, and Russia is replacing globalist hypocrisy with sincere power politics.