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Source: Courageous Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna feared seized by Russian invaders

Source: Meduza is granting open access to all coverage of the war in Ukraine under a Creative Commons license You can reprint our articles about the conflict in full — anywhere you like — Meduza

Source: ‘We’re on the Titanic, and it’s just hit the iceberg’ Meduza’s Russian readers explain why they’re not leaving the country. — Meduza

Navalny’s statement during oral arguments

I hate your authority and despise your judicial system. Because it’s impossible not to hate. Isn’t it humiliating for you to pretend you’re judges and prosecutors, when in reality, you’re just cogs whose sole purpose is to repeat something you were told over the phone?

What I wouldn’t give to read your thoughts, your honor. Isn’t there at least a tiny part of you saying, “To hell with it?” That’s what [prosecution witness Fyodor] Gorozhanko decided — and he told the truth here.

Why do you think this impunity will last forever?

If you think I’ll get scared, or that you can scare everybody in Russia, people like the wonderful [Pervyi Kanal employee] Marina Ovsyannikova, who didn’t just speak up — she recorded a video and told us the most important words: act now.

You can’t lock up everyone. Go ahead, ask for 113 years [in prison] and give it to me — you won’t scare me or anybody else like me. Russia’s big, there are a lot of people here, and not everybody’s cowardly enough to betray their future and their children’s futures like you are…

Source: ‘This will lead to our country’s collapse’ Alexey Navalny’s address to the Russian public as the state seeks new charges against him. — Meduza

Kai Katonina is a 31-year-old Russian UX designer from Berlin. They’ve been going to protest rallies against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since the war began in February. Initially, Kai protested with a sign that read “No to war,” but they quickly decided that Russians who opposed their state’s actions needed some kind of unifying symbol — otherwise it would seem like all Russians supported the war, and all the protesters were Ukrainian.

“I realized this when people I knew started writing on their signs that they’re Russian and they oppose the war. Journalists started eagerly going up to them and saying, ‘Wow, you’re Russian! You oppose the war and you’ve come out to protest!” said Kai. “They were surprised, even though Berlin’s entire Russian-speaking population was in that crowd — including Belarusians and a lot of Russians. It was clear we needed to mark ourselves as Russians against the war and not just some more people. There was a wide consensus that we need some kind of symbol.”

On February 28, Kai published their version of the Russian flag on Facebook: a flag “without the red, bloody stripe.” The symbol quickly spread through social media.

It turned out that other Russians, both in Russia and abroad, had come up with similar concepts for white and blue flags. The day before Kai posted their design, an art manager and PR specialist living in Russia suggested a white-blue-white flag on his Twitter account, Fish Sounds. (He asked to remain anonymous for security reasons.)

Source: A new symbol of Russia’s anti-war movement Meduza explains the origins of the white-blue-white flag. — Meduza

The Justice Department today announced an agreement between the department and the state of Ohio through its Secretary of State to help ensure that military service members, their family members, and U.S. citizens living overseas have an opportunity to participate fully in the upcoming May 3, 2022, federal primary election. The agreement is necessary to provide a remedy for a potential violation of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA).

Source: Justice Department Secures Agreement with Ohio to Protect the Rights of Military and Overseas Voters in Ohio Primary Election | OPA | Department of Justice

Elena Kovalskaya, the most recent artistic director of the Meyerhold Theatre and Cultural Center, has resigned her post in protest over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “It is impossible to work for a murderer and get a salary from him,” she wrote in a Facebook post.

The Meyerhold Theatre is one of several state-run theaters in Russia, many of which were inherited from the Soviet Union (although the Meyerhold was established in 1999). The state provides almost all of the funding, with artistic staff and actors as employees on payroll.

Source: Artistic Director of Moscow’s Meyerhold Theatre Resigns in Protest Against War | TheaterMania

Source: Xi calls for end to Ukraine conflict in call with Biden — Radio Free Asia

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