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Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference scheduled for December 14
On December 14, Vladimir Putin will take stock of the year. It will be a program on television channels that will merge the “hotline” format and the president’s press conference
announced Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov.
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The “international” LGBT+ movement banned from Russia
The Russian Supreme Court on Thursday banned the “international” LGBT+ movement for “extremism”, opening the way to legal proceedings and prison sentences once morest homosexuals and activists defending their rights in Russia.
This decision comes in the midst of an ultraconservative shift that targets LGBT+ people, with Russia now positioning itself as the standard bearer of “traditional” values in the face of the decadence of the West. This policy has accelerated since the attack by the Russian army once morest Ukraine at the end of February 2022, which led to a repression targeting all forms of criticism of the Kremlin.
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Sergei Lavrov accuses the OSCE, during its annual meeting, of becoming an “appendage of NATO”
The head of Russian diplomacy sharply attacked the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe during its annual meeting, accusing it of having become an “appendage” of NATO and the EU .
The OSCE is being transformed into an appendage of NATO and the EU. Let’s recognize it, the organization is on the edge of the precipice and this question arises: does it still make sense to invest to revitalize it?
Sergei Lavrov said in front of dozens of his counterparts, in a vitriolic speech targeting the West and Ukraine.
Sergei Lavrov, during the OSCE summit. — © Boris Grdanoski / keystone-sda.ch
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Ukraine accuses Russia of blocking any exchange of prisoners of war
Ukraine’s human rights commissioner accuses Russia of blocking any exchange of prisoners of war between the two countries. “The exchanges are not taking place because Russia does not want them,” Dmytro Loubinets, human rights commissioner of the Ukrainian parliament, said on Telegram.
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Volodymyr Zelensky visits near the front in the Kharkiv region
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled near the front line in the Kharkiv region (northeast) where he visited a command post near Kupiansk, the presidency reported.
“Fighters from the Kupiansk leadership protect the peaceful life of Ukrainians,” the presidency said on Telegram, accompanied by a video in which Volodymyr Zelensky decorated soldiers. Russian forces have been carrying out an offensive in this area for several months, with minimal gains.
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Bujar Osmani: “Russia’s war of aggression once morest Ukraine is an insult to OSCE values”
“Russia’s war of aggression once morest Ukraine is an insult” to the values of the OSCE, declared Thursday at the opening of the organization’s Annual Council its current president, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia from the North, Bujar Osmani. This war “undermines confidence, dialogue and our ability to act”, he added, in front of his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, whose arrival pushed Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic States to boycott the meeting.
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Ukraine hails Kissinger’s ‘legacy’ but singles out ‘controversial’ diplomat
Ukraine salutes the “intellectual legacy” of former American diplomat Henry Kissinger, who died on Wednesday at the age of 100, while noting that he was a character who was both “controversial” and “exceptional”. “His intellectual legacy will continue to influence the understanding of diplomacy and the world order,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kouleba said in English on X (ex-Twitter).
Read also: Henry Kissinger, influential and contested figure in American diplomacy, died at the age of 100
The head of the Ukrainian presidential administration Andriï Iermak declared himself “saddened” by the disappearance of Henry Kissinger, who died on Wednesday in his house in the United States. “He was a controversial but undeniably exceptional character. We will remember his leadership and his commitment to international cooperation,” added Andriï Iermak.
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At least one dead and ten injured in Russian bombings in Ukraine
Russian bombings left at least one dead and ten injured during the night from Wednesday to Thursday on three nearby towns in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko announced. According to the minister, six S-300 missiles hit the towns of Pokrovsk, Myrnograd and Novogrodivka, located regarding forty km northwest of Avdiïvka, which the Russians have been trying to encircle and take for almost two months.
In Novogrodivka, the body of a man was found under the rubble of a residential building where emergency services were still looking for four other people, said Igor Monoz, head of the regional military administration.
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OSCE launches annual council partly boycotted over Russian presence
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meets from Thursday in North Macedonia, in the notable absence of the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic countries who are protesting once morest the presence of the head of Russian diplomacy.
This forum for dialogue between East and West is going through the most serious crisis since its creation 48 years ago, paralyzed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is scheduled to address the Council at 10:00 a.m. local time (09:00 GMT).
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and North Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani talk with foreign ministers and officials ahead of the 30th OSCE Ministerial Meeting in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia, on 29 November 2023. — © GEORGI LICOVSKI / keystone-sda.ch
His Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian counterparts believe that the presence of Sergei Lavrov “risks legitimizing the aggressor that is Russia as a full member of our community of free nations”. kyiv denounced the presence of “a state that unleashed the greatest armed aggression in Europe since the end of the Second World War.”
A presence deemed “unacceptable” by Warsaw, which refused in 2022 to allow the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs to participate in the OSCE meeting it was hosting, sparking protests from Moscow. Sergei Lavrov arrived in North Macedonia “despite the intrigues of the enemies”, reacted on Telegram the spokesperson for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova.
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