Monatsarchive: April 2022

The Twitter accounts are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.

Guardian: “Before the war, the majority of Ukrainians did not trust the state,” said Venediktova. “There were grounds for this: the other general prosecutors and the way they behaved.” The office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general has been dogged by accusations … Weiterlesen →

Die Zeit: Bundesinnenministerin Nancy Faeser kündigte ein hartes Vorgehen gegen eine mögliche Verherrlichung von Kriegsverbrechen sowie das Verbreiten von Falschinformationen an. Bei den für Sonntag in mehreren deutschen Städten angekündigten Protestkundgebungen werde „sehr genau nach verbotenen Symbolen“ geschaut werden, sagte … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: Vladimir Putin may use the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine as a pretext to order a new campaign to interfere in American politics, US intelligence officials have assessed. Intelligence agencies have not found any evidence Putin has authorized measures … Weiterlesen →

Boris Buden, e-flux: The system of parliamentary oligarchy that upholds Putin, with its authoritarian and violent character, is not an exclusively Russian invention. It’s the system that best serves the interests of the global ruling class today. This is why … Weiterlesen →

PEN America: One theme that runs through virtually every educational gag order is patriotism. On its own, that’s unremarkable. Every state in the country has education-related laws on the books designed to produce patriotic, civic-minded students. But what legislators are … Weiterlesen →