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Shoppers killed as Russia bombs Kherson market 'for pleasure' on Christmas Eve
24 December 2022 • 3:03pm
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"Vladimir Putin: a miracle defender of Christianity or the most evil man?
"Why far-right nationalists like Steve Bannon have embraced a Russian ideologue"

Related: A take on Ukraine from a Quora contributor
[...]Russia has handed NATO the easiest, least expensive and lowest possible risk
way of destroying the Russian military when they invaded Ukraine. The west
will support and pay for this for as many years as Ukraine is willing to fight.
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Zelensky Challenges Us to Live Up to Our American Hype
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One has to wonder what parts of Ukraine pukey has promised to lukashitka for him
to help pukey out. Belarus had nothing to fear from Ukraine as far as I can tell.
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Eight Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into Putin’s War
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Christmas In Ukraine, Celebrations In A Time Of War

NBC

News 3,991 views Dec 26, 2022

In war torn Ukraine, for many, celebrating Christmas is an act of defiance. Everyday people showing Russia’s Vladimir Putin their traditions and families will not be silenced. NBC’s Matt Bradley visits with one family that even after having their home destroyed by a Russian assault, has decorations up and the holiday spirit in their hearts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sXq2V9TEg0

Vladimir Putin faces legal challenge after breaking Kremlin's 'fake news' law with comments on 'war' in Ukraine

Saturday 24 Dec 2022 at 7:44am


The opposition councillor who made the legal challenge said he knew it would go nowhere, but filed it to expose
the "mendacity" of the system.(Reuters: Sergey Guneev)

A St Petersburg politician has asked prosecutors to investigate Russian President Vladimir Putin for using the word "war" to describe the conflict in Ukraine, accusing the Kremlin chief of breaking his own law.

Key points:

* Vladimir Putin's reference to "war" runs afoul of Kremlin laws against so-called fake news
* The legal challenge isn't expected to affect the Russian president
* Internal critics of Russia's war have previously faced harsh repercussions

Mr Putin has for months described his invasion as a "special military operation".

He signed laws in March that prescribe steep fines and jail terms for discrediting or spreading "deliberately false information" about the armed forces, putting people at risk of prosecution if they call the war by its name.

But he departed from his usual language on Thursday when he told reporters:

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"Our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict,
but, on the contrary, to end this war."
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Nikita Yuferev, an opposition councillor in the city where Mr Putin was born, said he knew his legal challenge would go nowhere, but he had filed it to expose the "mendacity" of the system.

"It's important for me to do this to draw attention to the contradiction and the injustice of these laws that he [Putin] adopts and signs but which he himself doesn't observe," he told Reuters.

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"I think the more we talk about this, the more people will doubt his honesty,
his infallibility, and the less support he will have."
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In his challenge, filed in an open letter, Mr Yuferev asked the prosecutor general and interior minister to "hold [Putin] responsible under the law for spreading fake news about the actions of the Russian army".

Mr Yuferev, who asked Reuters not to disclose his location, said Mr Putin's critics who publicly called the war a war have suffered harsh punishments. 

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Opposition politician Ilya Yashin was jailed for eight-and-a-half years this month for spreading "false information" about the army.

In July another local councillor, Alexei Gorinov, was sentenced to seven years for criticising the invasion.

Mr Yuferev said he had previously drawn authorities' attention to the use of the word "war" by other prominent figures including Sergei Kiriyenko, deputy head of the presidential administration, and leading politician Sergei Mironov. 

He said police told him they examined the complaint against Kiriyenko and found he had done nothing wrong, and refused to look into the Mironov case.

After publishing the open letter about Mr Putin, Mr Yuferev said he had received hundreds of hate messages. But he said he believed the majority of Russians understood what was really happening in Ukraine.

"War, in Russian society, is a frightening word. Everyone is brought up by grandparents who lived through World War II, everyone remembers the saying 'Anything but war'," he said.

Reuters

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-24/putin-faces-legal-challenge-over-fake-news-law/101807104