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Přátelé svobodného Ruska
Přátelé svobodného Ruska věří myšlence svobodného a demokratického Ruska a propojují české politiky a neziskový sektor, podporují občanskou společnost a chtějí udržovat kontakty s demokraticky a svobodně smýšlejícími Rusy.
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Důrazně se skupinou Přátelé svobodného Ruska odsuzujeme zařazení hnutí Memorial, všech jeho poboček a dalších spřízněných entit na seznam extrémistických organizací.![]()
Na jeho obhajobě jsme ještě na konci roku 2021 iniciovali vznik celé naší iniciativy a v průběhu let toto výrazné občanské hnutí různými způsoby podporovali. ![]()
Celá záležitost je ukázkou, jak hluboko kremelský režim Vladimira Putina klesl při své touze o likvidaci kritických hlasů jasně pojmenovávajících problémy dnešního Ruska, včetně snahy o zahlazení problematických míst své historie.![]()
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TASS: Rusko zařadilo na seznam extremistů Memorial včetně jeho české pobočky | ČeskéNoviny.cz
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Moskva - Ruské ministerstvo spravedlnosti zařadilo na svůj seznam extremistických organizací hnutí na ochranu lidských práv Memorial včetně jeho české pobočky. Informovala o tom dnes rusk...6 days ago
Алексей Навальный by dnes oslavit 50. narozeniny…![]()
Bohužel jeho život, stejně jako mnoho dalších životů v Rusku, na Ukrajině i jinde vzal předčasně brutální Putinův režim. ![]()
Čest jeho památce, na jeho odkaz nezapomeneme!
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Když se to stane, obvykle je to kvůli tomu, že vlastník obsah sdílel jen s malou skupinou lidí, změnil nastavení soukromí, nebo byl obsah odebrán.
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For more than three years, Russian drones and drone debris have repeatedly entered Romanian territory during attacks against Ukraine. Previous incidents largely involved airspace violations, debris fields, or uninhabited areas.![]()
This time, however, a residential apartment building in Galați was hit, injuring civilians and forcing residents to evacuate.![]()
Viewed in isolation, the incident can easily be dismissed as an unfortunate exception. Nevertheless, these exceptions have a tendency to repeat themselves. First Poland, now Romania. The more frequently they occur, the harder it becomes to treat them entirely in isolation from one another.![]()
European leaders often describe Russia’s war against Ukraine as one of the central security challenges facing the continent. At the same time, incidents beyond Ukraine’s borders often continue to be treated as isolated occurrences rather than as part of that broader challenge.![]()
Whether the drone reached Romania because of technical malfunction, navigational error, negligence, or even malign intent may ultimately be less important than the fact that it happened at all. Every such incident exposes civilians in neighboring states to risks they neither chose nor created, while gradually normalizing developments that would have been considered unthinkable only a few years ago.![]()
A Russian explosive drone has now injured civilians inside a NATO and EU member state.![]()
For the residents of Galați, the incident was not primarily a question of deterrence, proportionality, or alliance credibility.![]()
It was a Russian drone hitting their apartment building.![]()
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'No-one feels safe now': Residents of Romanian city hit by drone share fears
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People have just begun returning to check on their homes in the block that was hit early on Friday morning.2 weeks ago
Russia’s war is no longer confined to the battlefield.![]()
It is returning home - in the form of knives, fists, torture, and acid burns inflicted on women.![]()
This week in Saint Petersburg, a 26-year-old woman was ambushed at the entrance to her own home by her former partner, a veteran of the war in Ukraine. According to Russian media reports, he arrived armed with a pistol, pepper spray, a knife, and a container of nitric acid. He sprayed her in the face with acid, stabbed her repeatedly, and left her critically injured. ![]()
This is not an isolated incident.![]()
Independent Russian journalists and human rights groups have been documenting for months how the war is fueling an explosion of gendered violence inside Russia itself. Women are being beaten, mutilated, murdered, and terrorized by men returning from the front with severe trauma, combat normalization, and - most dangerously - a growing sense of impunity.![]()
And the Russian state is actively enabling it.![]()
State propagandists have publicly instructed women to “understand” violent veterans, “kiss their feet,” and tolerate domestic abuse as the price of patriotism. Courts increasingly treat participation in the war as a mitigating circumstance for violent crimes. Men accused or convicted of assault can avoid prison by signing military contracts.![]()
The result is a grotesque state-sponsored cycle:![]()
1) domestic violence => 2) prosecution => 3) volunteering for war => 4) suspension of charges or pardoning => 5) deployment to Ukraine => 6) return from the front => 7) renewed domestic violence against women => etc.![]()
The Kremlin has effectively transformed the war into a laundering mechanism for violent men.![]()
Russia already decriminalized many forms of domestic violence in 2017. Now the war has militarized that culture of impunity even further. The message sent to women is brutally clear: your safety matters less than the state’s need for soldiers. ![]()
The war does not end when soldiers come home.![]()
For many Russian women, that is precisely where it begins.![]()
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NewsSocietyRussian TV propagandist tells wives of returning war veterans to ‘kiss their feet’ and accept domestic violenceNovaya Gazeta EuropeApril 29, 2025A presenter on a flagship Russian TV pro...3 weeks ago
In Saint Petersburg, 84-year-old Siege of Leningrad survivor Lyudmila Vasilyeva continues to appear at anti-war protests despite repeated detentions and pressure from the authorities.![]()
Born in 1941, she survived the blockade of Leningrad - one of the greatest human catastrophes of the Second World War and one of the central symbols of sacrifice and heroism in official Russian memory politics. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, however, she has repeatedly appeared with anti-war signs calling for an end to the violence and bloodshed.![]()
There is a certain irony in this image. A woman belonging to the generation that Soviet, and later Russian, official memory culture elevated as the generation of wartime survivors and heroes now finds herself confronted by police for publicly opposing war.![]()
For many people who actually lived through the war, Victory Day was historically associated less with triumphalism than with the phrase “Лишь бы не было войны” - “If only there were no war.” The memory of war often carried a deeply somber dimension shaped by loss, hunger, destruction, and personal trauma.![]()
Vasilyeva’s position therefore appears less detached from historical memory than contemporary official narratives sometimes suggest. On the contrary, her anti-war stance seems rooted precisely in the lived experience that the Russian state itself constantly invokes symbolically.![]()
This creates a certain tension within contemporary Russian memory politics: one of the surviving witnesses of the historical experience on which the official narrative rests arrives at political conclusions that increasingly place her in conflict with the state itself.![]()
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NewsPoliticsRussian pensioner released without charge after solo anti-war picket in St. PetersburgNovaya Gazeta EuropeDecember 1, 2025An 84-year-old St. Petersburg activist who was taken into custody ...