US retail gasoline prices have climbed to fresh all-time highs just in time for the traditional start of America’s summer driving season, the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Prices at the pump for regular-grade gasoline rose to $4.60 per gallon on Thursday and held around that level on Friday, according to …
Read More »Protests kick off over plans to demolish Soviet memorial
Several hundred people attempted to gather outside Riga’s town hall on Friday as the legislature in the Latvian capital convened for an extraordinary meeting to consider demolishing a monument to Soviet soldiers who liberated the city from Nazi occupation. The move was ultimately supported by an overwhelming majority of lawmakers. …
Read More »MP suggests turning Soviet war memorial into prison
Veteran Latvian lawmaker and nationalist politician Alexander Kirstein has said that people laying flowers at a World War II memorial in Riga, in defiance of city authorities, should be incarcerated at the site and then expelled to Russia. His proposal, made on Twitter on Wednesday, targets locals who oppose their government’s …
Read More »European MP suggests turning Soviet war memorial into prison camp
Veteran Latvian lawmaker and nationalist politician Alexander Kirstein has said that people laying flowers at a World War II memorial in Riga, an act that would defy city authorities, should be taken prisoner at the site and then expelled from Latvia to Russia. His proposal, made on Twitter on Wednesday, …
Read More »EU member paves way to demolishing Soviet memorial
Latvian lawmakers have overwhelmingly voted to renounce part of a treaty with Russia in which Riga committed to protect and maintain war memorials in the country. Thursday’s move opens the door to the removal of a monument to Soviet soldiers who liberated Riga from Nazi occupation during World War II. …
Read More »ECHR urges Russia to suspend dissolution of NGO Memorial
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has called on Russia not to implement the court-ordered dissolution of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Memorial, citing a rule designed to prevent “irreparable harm.” The ECHR was responding to a decision taken by the Moscow City Court, on Wednesday which sided with the prosecution …
Read More »Memorial closed by Russian court over ‘foreign agent’ breaches
A Moscow court has ruled that a prominent organization campaigning on human rights issues should be dissolved after prosecutors insisted that it was breaching the country’s laws regulating ‘foreign agents.’ In a ruling on Wednesday, the Moscow City Court said that the Memorial Human Rights Center would be dissolved. Handing …
Read More »Russian court bans ‘Memorial’
A court in Moscow has ordered the liquidation of a prominent NGO dedicated to preserving the memory of those who died under communist rule, after prosecutors said the group was seeking to rewrite the history of the Soviet Union. In a ruling issued on Tuesday, a judge decreed that Memorial, …
Read More »Helicopter lands at Lincoln Memorial to airlift ‘shooting victim’ found near Reflecting Pool (VIDEOS)
The med-evac was seen in footage circulating on social media on Monday night, with the chopper touching down on the east end of the Reflecting Pool before leaving with the injured person. A local NBC affiliate reported that the individual suffered a gunshot wound, citing the US Park Police. A spokesperson for the …
Read More »War never changes: Submissions open for RT’s 2021 Khaled Alkhateb International Memorial Awards for war journalism
The international competition, named in honor of Alkhateb, who was a regular contributor to RT Arabic at the time of his tragic death on July 30, 2017, is highlighting the perilous work of journalists in conflict zones for the fourth year in a row. The participants will compete in two …
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