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  • Dissent and imprisonment

    The widespread corruption of Russian politics has created a weakness because voices that should be heard are lost in either graveyards or prison cells right across Russia, and if those voices are lost, then Russia itself without an opposition that has a tangible voice will be lost by the misadventures and ridiculous loss of life…

  • Lost in silence

    Two months after spontaneous protests broke out in response to a deadly fire in Urumqi, China, against the draconian laws underpinning the pandemic controls, a number of peaceful protesters are being held in detention on charges of picking quarrels or provoking trouble and gathering in a crowd to disrupt public order. Human rights groups have…

  • Does anything come after Putin?

    There are some analysts who believe that what comes after President Putin will be worse than now. But is the talk of what is to come just that bit to early. Western analysts cannot see the Russians holding on, they seem to think that with less than 100 tanks promised, the Ukrainians will be fully…

  • The message from Ukraine was thank you, but…..

    The message from Ukraine was thank you for all your help, thank you for the artillery, thank you for the missile defence systems, but we need tanks. We are fighting not just for Ukraine, but Europe as well. We are fighting to defend the free world from Putin, President Zelensky argued in a speech to…

  • Ukraine

    Putin is tactically clever, he has moved his country onto a war footing after the special operation failed. He constantly adapts, out manoeuvring and moving the Ukrainian war into something other than a territorial reach to far. The initial plan failed because much to the detriment of his own beliefs that President Zelensky would flee…

  • Lost voices, blank sheets of paper and umbrellas.

    Symbolism has taken the voice away from writers and artists, each and every demonstration in Hong Kong and China has been challenged by security laws, but voices such as Ai Weiwei, or writers such as Zu Zhiyong are either in exile or prison. Symbols have become so important, the blank sheet of paper or the…