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https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/14/europe/lutzerath-germany-coal-protests-climate-intl/index.html

Both China and Brazil have positioned themselves as potential peace brokers in the war, but their ambivalent views have been widely criticised by Western allies as biased, incomplete and Russian-leaning. Now EU's Josep Borrell says President Xi Jinping of China and President Lula da Silva of Brazil should visit Ukraine before engaging in any further peace-promoting efforts.

There is “evidence that deported children had faced a process of ‘russification’ through re-education in Russian language, culture and history", a resolution of the Council of Europe’s parliament says this week. The transfers of Ukrainian children were "clearly being planned and organised in a systematic way’ as state policy" with the aim of “annihilating every link to and feature of their Ukrainian identity."

Volodymyr Saldo, a notorious puppet of the Kremlin in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, is listed as the owner of a UK company registered in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine since November last year, five months after his name was added to the sanctions list.

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Specialized equipment for signals intelligence (SIGINT) has been mounted in recent weeks on the roof of Russian facilities across Europe, from Warsaw to Budapest, Stockholm, or Brussels, which is linked to a massive network of espionage and capable of picking up the national security signals of the countries concerned. Russian embassies intercept radio wave activity, data of mobile phone devices, and even listen in to GSM calls.

The Swiss government was responding to a statement by the Russian embassy regarding the work of a Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) journalist covering the war in Ukraine. In Russia, wrote the embassy, the journalist’s coverage was liable to land him a financial penalty, a prison term, or a period of forced labour.

The chair of the defence select committee questioned an account given by Wallace to parliament of a dangerous incident which occurred last September and was revealed in a leak of top secret Pentagon documents. According to the papers, a Russian pilot had locked on to the British aircraft in international airspace and, believing they had permission to fire, shot a missile. However, the missile malfunctioned. The specialised British aircraft can carry up to 30 crew members.

Under a new political agreement, the EU aims to double its current global market share to 20 percent in 2030 and mobilize more than 43 billion euros ($47.2 billion) in public and private investments to feed Europe's growing appetite for chips. Asian industry, especially firms in China and Taiwan, currently dominate the manufacture and export of semiconductors.

The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum is the 83rd group to be “undesirables”. Among others are Transparency International, a leading global anti-corruption network, and The Andrei Sakharov Foundation, an American organization working to safeguard and promote the legacy of the Nobel-prize winning physicist who became a leader of the human rights and pro-democracy movement in the USSR.

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, authorities began using facial recognition to prevent people from protesting in the first place, according to a new report. Western technology has aided this crackdown.

On April 17, 2023, the Moscow City Court convicted Vladimir Kara-Murza on combined charges of treason, dissemination of “false information” about the conduct of the Russian Armed Forces, and involvement with an “undesirable organization”, and sentenced him to 25 years in maximum security prison with an additional fine of 400,000 rubles (approximately USD 5,000), restriction of freedom for 1.5 years, and a ban on journalistic activities for 7 years.

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