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Environmental activist Evgeniya Chirikova once helped save a forest in Moscow. Now she’s trying to give voice to Russian activists and journalists resisting Putin’s regime.
What is happening in ukraine? >> the word is definitely spreading. and even at the official level we've heard yesterday the senator of the state duma actually saying that out of a company of 100 russian soldiers only four came back alive. she said it during the meeting of the senate. so it's coming now on the official level. russian ministry of defense also recognized i believe over 400 russian deaths in this what they call special operation. but also we've seen quite strong anti-war protests. over 6,000 people are now detained for that. and i think that what is happening in russia, now they a...
Putin has consolidated his turn to totalitarianism, sending his country back into the mid-1980s.
The war in Ukraine has not yet reached Belarus, but it has drawn a wedge between those of us abroad and our mothers.
It was still Wednesday, February 23, in New York when I received the New York Times news alert on my phone about Russia waging “a full-scale attack fr