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According to the Chinese, the document denigrates their government's military policy. Japan aims for growth in military spending to 2 percent of GDP. Kishida administration: Russian attack on Ukraine risks becoming a precedent for Chinese aggression against Taiwan.

Exactly one hundred years ago more than 300 distinguished representatives of the scientific, literary and artistic intelligentsia were expelled from Soviet Russia to Germany.They saved Russian culture from erasure. Even today because of the "Ukrainian revolution" thousands of teachers, artists and scholars from various fields have fled the country. Will they be able to do the same?

Action by Russia’s Justice Ministry is a new blow for Russia’s Jewish community after its chief rabbi was forced to flee for not supporting the invasion of Ukraine. Reopened in the 1990s, the agency helped Jews emigrate to Israel. Since February, 10,000 have left the country. In Israel the Lapid government is sending a delegation warning that “Russian Jews will not be held hostage”.

The 'Common Ground' project, in which Latvians and Russians help Ukrainian refugees to hope for a better future, has been in action since March. Many volunteers have arrived from Russia.

Gathering of the Universal Russian People's Council, a political-religious society founded in the 1990s by the current patriarch of Moscow, Kirill. The group wants a country with its own vision, free from Western influence.

The final communiqué after the meeting of the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran contains a vague commitment to "fight[ing] terrorism in all its forms". During his meeting with the Turkish leader, Iran’s Khamenei warns against creating a “buffer zone” against the Kurds. Meanwhile, the war of attrition continues along the Turkish-Syrian border.

The Moscow Art Museum has temporarily allowed the Orthodox Church to move the icon to the Lavra where it was originally located. This is the first time since 1918: until now, all requests had been denied. Propaganda tool to feed the myth of Russian "Victory" in Ukraine.

More than war, prison camps and food, what has revived Moscow's past is the unbearable illusion of moral and religious superiority, one that seeks to celebrate the ability of Russians to unite in solidarity and support for the country's leaders, proclaiming the end of libertarian individualism that ruined the souls of depraved Westerners.

Two months of pre-trial detention for the Moscow Duma deputy. He faces up to 10 years for spreading "falsehoods" about the army. Like Naval'nyj, one of the very few opponents who did not flee. The anti-Putin front is still alive in Russia.

Ukraine war is an armed intervention against fascists and parasites in Ukraine, says Russia's supreme mufti. Kremlin propaganda rhetoric redoubled. Similar positions from Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. Most of the Russian soldiers on the frontlines against Kiev are of Islamic faith.

His political positions, especially on Taiwan's defense, pitted the former premier against the Chinese. And while India loses an ally in building an anti-Chinese front, the Russians cannot be overly sorry either. For South East Asia, Abe was a promoter of regional multilateralism.

The great ideal of peace is anchored to unquestionable values such as the absolute dignity of human beings, the superiority of international law, and even mutual economic dependence. Yet we find ourselves once again discussing the principles that have always incited the powerful to war: the affirmation of one's national and cultural identity, the defence of one's territorial and political interests, and the rejection of economic dependence on international potentates.