Vladimir Rozanskij

Many Russians refuse to get vaccinated against Covid-19 for religious reasons. The great influence of the “urkabožniki” deniers. The Moscow Patriarchate launches a committee to encourage scientific and theological research from an Orthodox perspective.

Some Russian regions are in danger of losing up to half their harvest. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are holding back water from their rivers to the detriment of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The Turkmen government ignores climate woes and carries out the “White House” ceremony.

A documentary about the colonization of the Russian Far East by Chinese migrants. They do big business in a sparsely populated area with an unregulated market. Facial recognition "made in China" used to suppress dissent. The Kremlin accepts the growing Chinese presence to overcome the pandemic crisis.

A law on freedom of conscience and religious associations is in the process of being approved. The goal is to preserve local Islamic traditions. From August 1st there will be “sporting checks” of the population Tax concessions and cash prizes for the participants.

Russian security services have targeted Ak Tyan or “White Faith”, a religious group at odds with local Buddhists. Neo-paganism is raising fears of possible extremism. Local youth are increasingly fascinated by ancient religious beliefs.

Civil Accord, his party, got 53.9%. Former president Robert Kočaryan denounces fraud. The outgoing premier invokes the "dictatorship of the law"; he could form an autonomous government. Support from Russia, the US, the EU and Iran.

Dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua, in 2018 a fire had reduced it to ashes. Founded in 1898 by Polish deportees. First destroyed in 1938 by Bolshevik activists. Reconsecrated in 1998. 100 thousand euros collected online for the restoration. Warsaw donates a reproduction of the Black Virgin of Częstochowa.

Four regions, including that of the capital, are the first to have adopted the measure. Population suspicious of vaccine. Only vaccinated allowed access to schools and universities: the remainder will have to follow lessons online. The Orthodox Church reticent on immunization campaign.

Evidence presented to the International Criminal Court. Uyghurs, who seek refuge in the former Soviet republic, are returned to the Chinese and end up in the Xinjiang concentration camps. The triangulation with Turkey. In exchange, the Tajiks obtain a loan to build a highway between the capital and the border with China.

A summit in Geneva after the tensions of recent months. The respective ambassadors return to the offices in Washington and Moscow. Focus on cyber security, the pandemic, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea. Major differences over Ukraine and human rights in Russia.

A proposal to this effect was presented by the parliamentarian Ališer Kadyrov: "Deportation is better than the use of force". Intimate relationships between people of the same sex are a crime in Uzbekistan. Many flee to avoid detention.

In the exchange, the Azerbaijanis obtained mas of the minefields in the province of Agdam. At least another 200 soldiers from Yerevan remain in Azerbaijan. Backed by the USA, the European Union and Turkey, the Georgians offer themselves as mediators in the conflicts in the Caucasus.