Gent Shukullaku / AFP / Scanpix / Leta on the steps of the main boulevard of the city of Durres in Albania in Albania, an installation with red women's shoes appeared. It symbolizes the number of women in the country killed as a result of domestic or sexual violence. Andre Malerba / Zuma / Scanpix / Leta in Bangkok participants in the march carried posters with the mention of laws regarding harassment at the workplace and violence.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has refused to recognize Viktor Lukashenko (Viktar Lukashenka) — the eldest son of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (Alyaksandr Lukashenka) — as the head of Belarus’s National Olympic Committee (NOC). This was announced in a press release on the IOC’s website on Monday, March 8. The IOC has also refused to recognize the election of Belarusian Ice Hockey Association President Dmitry Baskov as a member of the Belarusian NOC’s executive board.

The Little Big group, which was supposed to represent Russia at Eurovision 2020, refused to participate in the new selection for the contest. The leader of the group, Ilya Prusikin, announced this on the air of Channel One, TASS reports. Firstly, our song would be compared to [our last year's Eurovision song] "Uno" and not to the contestants. And secondly, in Russia there are a lot of creative and very cool artists who the whole world should hear.

Putin’s alleged ‘secret’ daughter played a DJ set at a Moscow night club over the weekend Vasily Krestyaninov This past weekend, the Moscow bar Rovesnik hosted its most recent “Zvonok Drugu” (“Phone a Friend”) party, where only non-professional DJs are invited to perform guest sets. Ahead of the event, the nightclub advertised that a “mystery girl from the northern capital” was coming to the party to DJ her first set.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has not recognized the election of Viktor Lukashenko, the eldest son of Alexander Lukashenko, as head of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Belarus. The corresponding statement was published on the IOC website.

In Japan there is a telephone booth from which no one can get through. Thousands of people come to her - to talk with the dead Issei Kato / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Woman from the Japanese city of Ofunato calls classmates who died during earthquakes and tsunami in March 2011. Otsuti village, Japan, February 2021 More than ten years ago, an unusual telephone booth appeared in the Japanese village of Otsuti.

The landlord who rents out office space to the anti-domestic violence group “Nasiliu.net” (No to Violence) has demanded that they vacate the premises within a month. This was reported by the organization’s director Anna Rivina in an open letter published on Facebook.

The landlord demanded that the premises housing the office of the domestic violence assistance center " No to Violence " be vacated within a month. This is stated in an open letter from the center's director Anna Rivina, which was published on Facebook. According to Rivina, in early February the center received a paper allegedly from the Federal Property Management Agency. It contained a request to "urgently vacate the premises voluntarily" by February 10. The paper was unsigned and unsealed.

At least 1,129 female media workers in post-Soviet countries were subjected to attacks for their work last year, says a new report from the Justice for Journalists Foundation (JFJ). This figure includes three female journalists who lost their lives. Notably, in 79 percent (887) of these cases, representatives of the authorities were behind the attacks on women journalists.

Feminist activists in St. Petersburg held a protest on Monday, March 8, in honor of International Women’s Day, reports the local news site Bumaga ( Paper ). The rally was organized by the “Vosmaya Initsiativnaya Gruppa” (Eighth Initiative Group), which describes itself as St. Petersburg’s united feminist movement. The protest was announced as a rally in support of domestic violence legislation, the release of political prisoners, and the fight against women’s poverty.

For the first time, the ECHR accepted for consideration a case from Russia on the repeated psychological traumatization of child victims of sexual violence during the investigation and trial. This was reported to Open Media by representatives of the Justice Initiative project, who represent the applicant in court. The complaint was filed with the ECtHR in August 2020.

Listen to the legendary Russian bands that got their start at the Soviet Union’s first legal rock venue Dmitry Konradt The opening of the season at the Leningrad Rock Club. 1986. Founded on March 7, 1981, the Leningrad Rock Club was the first and largest venue in the Soviet Union where young people could legally perform rock music. Located on Rubinstein Street in what is now St.

Lawyer Dmitry Miropoltsev from the city of Kaltan, Kemerovo Region, sued the police for moral damages for having drawn up a report on the demonstration of a swastika because of a photo with the number 55. Miropoltsev reported this to Siberia. MBKh Media. “I asked for a realistic amount of 20 thousand, they collected 5 thousand. Not bad either,” said Miropoltsev. An administrative case against a lawyer was opened in November 2019.

A feminist action in honor of March 8 took place in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the city publication "Bumaga". The action was announced by the Eighth Initiative Group movement, which calls itself the united feminist movement of St. Petersburg. It was declared as an action for the law on domestic violence, for the release of political prisoners, and for the fight against women's poverty. According to Severo-Zapad. MBKh Media, about 100 people took part in the action.

"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs, watch new clips, and then briefly talk about the best or at least the most noticeable of them. In this issue: the next dance blockbuster from Little Big, the debut of the remarkable team “Daughter”, Tribyt Anna Akhmatova, the Super Group Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak, the album of Mujus and the congratulation from March 8 from scriptonitis and associates.