The day the Russian president, Vladimir Putinturns 70 and that the Russian invasion of Ukraine reaches 226 days, the Nobel Foundation and the UN Human Rights Council decided send him several messages on the lack of respect for civil rights in his country and in Belarus.
Belarusian Ales Bialiatski and Russian organizations Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties will receive the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 for their criticism of power and “denunciation of crimes against humanity”, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, based in Oslo.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee “wishes to honor three outstanding human rights defendersdemocracy and peaceful coexistence in neighboring countries Belarus, Russia and Ukraine “, announced the names of the winners.
The Russian Memorial organization, that was settled in December 2021 from Putin-led Russia, he has spent the past 30 years investigating both Soviet political repression up to 1991 and denouncing human rights violations in post-Soviet Russia.
Bialiatski “was one of the iinitiators of the democratic movement emerged in Belarus in the mid-1980s. He has dedicated his life to promoting democracy and peaceful development in his home country, “the committee said.
As for the Center for Civil Libertieswas founded to promote the human rights and democracy in Ukraine, “It has become an important source for documenting Russian war crimes” and “plays a pioneering role in holding the perpetrators accountable.”
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg congratulated the winners on Friday and stressed that “the right to tell the truth in power is essential for free and open societies.
Putin’s birthday also coincided with the approval in the United Nations Human Rights Council of the creation of the figure of an independent expert to investigate and monitor the human rights situation in Russiawhere it was reported a general repression and the violation of various civil liberties.
According to the UN, Russia’s recent exit from the European Court of Human Rights has left the citizens of that country without the possibility of resorting to an instance of international justice to obtain respect for their human rights if these were denied in the national courts.
Putin … birthday
Putin turned 70 this Friday at its lowest since he took power on the last day of the 20th century. Although he assures him that his destiny is to direct the Kremlin’s plans and fight the hegemony of the West, he has lost popularity and he is increasingly isolated, both inside and outside his country.
According to Gennadi Gudkov, a former Russian deputy exiled to Bulgaria, “there are cracks in the Putinist system. And it is not a hypothesis ”. “The problem is that any public display of discontent can lead to a prison sentence or a ‘physical liquidation’,” he says.
Putin received some congratulationsincluding that of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who praised his “exceptional” leadership and “firm will”, as well as his campaign in Ukraine.
Cyril, or Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Churchassured the Russian president was put in power by God, while the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, recalled that the Russian president’s birthday coincides with the feast of the Virgen del Rosario, of which he said he was certain that “he is guiding his steps, his work, his intelligence and sensitivity” .
And the war goes on
The war continues in Ukraine, after completing 226 days of invasion. The government of Kiev has so far reclaimed 500 square kilometers of land in the Kherson region this October, according to the Ukrainian president. Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Since October 1, more than half a thousand square kilometers of land and dozens of settlements have been cleared from the bogus Russian referendum and stabilized in the Kherson region alone,” he said in his usual late-night speech.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov urged Russian troops not to waste time and save Russia from tragedy and its army from humiliation.
But The bombings and the Russian deaths continue: The death toll from the attack launched this Thursday with missiles by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia now stands at eleven.
According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SE), rescue teams removed the bodies of eight people from the rubble on Friday, adding to the three recovered on Thursday.
Russian military forces again attacked Zaporizhia using this time Iranian drones, according to the complaint of the head of the regional military administration of this city in southern Ukraine, Oleksandr Starukh.
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Source: Clarin
