Residents of the border villages in Armenia staged a procession to Yerevan with a demand for the resignation of Pashinyan. They are accused of disrupting negotiations with Azerbaijan Bagrat Bagrat Bagrata leads the march of the Tavush for Homeland movement from Kiranz to Yerevan, May 5, 2024. Photo: Narek aleksanyan The protests flared up in the Tavush region of Armenia because of disagreement with the transfer of four villages to Azerbaijan moved to Yerevan.

Putin chose to honour veterans on Red Square by threatening the West with nuclear war Servicemen at the Victory Day parade in Moscow, 9 May 2024. Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA-EFE The military parade of 9 May 2024 marked a peak in Russia’s new militarism. Leni Riefenstahl couldn’t have captured better visuals or rhetoric.

A rally is taking place in Yerevan against the delimitation of the border with Azerbaijan; those gathered are demanding the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The event is broadcast on the YouTube channel of the publication 168.am. The rally takes place in the central square of the Republic. According to the Bagramyan 26 telegram channel, as of 18:20 (17:20 Moscow time), between 18 and 20 thousand people gathered for the protest.

Who is Nadezhda Kevorkov, who was arrested for two months for "justification of terrorism" Nadezhda Kevorkov during a court hearing in Moscow, May 7, 2024. Photo: Ivan Vodopyanov / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press On May 7, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent a 65-year-old journalist Nadezhda Kevorkov in a criminal case on the “justification of terrorism”. The accusation was based on two Kevorkova posts in her telegram channel.

Despite ambitious guidelines from Moscow, Russian schools have been going through the motions to mark Victory Day Photo: Andrey Bok / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press In the third year of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the focus of Victory Day — 9 May, when Russia traditionally celebrates the defeat of fascism in World War II — is increasingly shifting towards the current war in Ukraine.

We talk about the most high-profile trial in Kazakhstan The case of Saltanat Nukenova is one of the most high-profile and resonant cases of domestic violence in Kazakhstan and throughout the world. Saltanat Nukenova is the wife of Kuandyk Bishimbayev, the former Minister of Economy of Kazakhstan. Last November, Bishimbayev beat her to death during a lengthy argument in a restaurant.

The Russian army has lost at least 3,000 tanks in the war in Ukraine, military analysts at Oryx report in a research study. According to them, since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian military has destroyed 2,001 Russian tanks, damaged 156 tanks and captured 514 tanks. Another 329 pieces of equipment were abandoned by Russian Armed Forces personnel on the battlefield. According to analysts from Oryx, the Russian Armed Forces lost 42 models of Russian and Soviet-made tanks.

Putin about nuclear war in the name of veterans sounded on Red Square The military personnel in honor of Victory Day, Moscow, May 9, 2024. Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA-EFE The military parade on May 9, 2024 will become the apogee of the new Russian militarism. The visual and rhetorical part of this event stood on a par with the films of Leni Rifenshtal. Under the snow in the center of Moscow there are columns of soldiers dressed in a stylized shape of the Second World War.

He is persecuted under an article on "violation of the rules of the" foreign agent "" The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs put on the wanted list of the rapper Oxxxymiron (real name - Miron Fedorov), the Mediazona paid attention to this. According to information from the database of the department, the rapper is wanted under a criminal article. What exactly is accused of Fedorov is not specified.

Philologist Hasan Huseynov-to the centenary of the poet-fontovik and the son of the "enemies of the people", whose poems and songs we have yet to understand Bulat Okudzhava. Photo: Anastasia Fedorenko / Wikimedia (CC by-SA 3.0) It would seem, what can a person have a posthumous biography if he was born and died in the last century, having lived from May 9, 1924 to June 12, 1997 only 73 years? Happy, he did not even find the next, Putin, a quarter of a century.

How the Russian state reframed the collective trauma of World War II to serve its own political ends Russian soldiers stand before a poster reading “Victory!” during a rehearsal for Moscow’s Victory Day parade on Red Square, 5 May 2024. Photo: Yuri Kochetkov /EPA-EFE The past two decades have seen the rampant exploitation of the collective national memory of World War II by the Russian government.

Parade in Moscow, 9 May 2024. Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA-EFE Parade in Moscow, 9 May 2024. Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA-EFE Military parades were held across Russia on Thursday to celebrate Victory Day, the national holiday that celebrates the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany. Despite snowy weather, some 9,000 people took part in the ceremony on Moscow’s Red Square.

Putin uses the second world as a source of political legitimacy. About the militaristic cult and about healthy memory as two different approaches to the past - historian Konstantin Pakhalyuk Russian troops on the general rehearsal of the parade in honor of Victory Day on Red Square in Moscow, May 5, 2024. Photo: Yuri Kochetkov / EPA-EFE Over the past decade, the Russian state has intensively exploiting the memory of the Second World War.

Firefighters at the scene of an air strike on the city of Belgorod, Russia, 9 May 2024. Photo: Vyacheslav Gladkov At least eight people were injured in the western Russian city of Belgorod as Ukraine launched an air strike on the region in the early hours of Thursday morning, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram.

Main In Moscow, a military parade was held on Red Square in honor of the 79th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. This year it passed under snowfall. Despite the weather, aircraft still flew over Red Square. In total, nine thousand people took part in the parade (a thousand of them were participants in the war in Ukraine) and 75 pieces of equipment. During the parade, Vladimir Putin made a speech.