Russian citizens have a “right to the free choice of language in communication, upbringing, culture, and art,” the Kherson region’s governor, Vladimir Saldo, said on Sunday as he announced that Ukrainian and Crimean-Tatar languages can be used in his region as official ones alongside Russian. “Safeguarding people’s cultural, spiritual, and …
Read More »Syria recognizes Donbass Republics – state media
Syria has recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR, respectively), which announced their intention to break away from Ukraine in 2014 and were officially recognized by Russia in February. Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) announced the decision on Wednesday afternoon, citing sources within the …
Read More »Zelensky speaks with Biden and Johnson after Russia recognizes Donbass
Moscow’s decision to recognize two breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine’s Donbass region has triggered emergency consultations between Kiev and its most powerful allies, as well as retaliatory measures. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that he had discussed “the events of the last hours” with US President Joe Biden …
Read More »Macron recognizes France’s ‘overwhelming responsibility’ for 1994 Rwandan genocide, asks survivors for ‘gift of forgiveness’
Speaking on Thursday during a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial, President Emmanuel Macron accepted his country’s part in the genocide during a solemn speech. He said that France “was not an accomplice” to the genocide but was responsible. The president said that France did not listen to those who …
Read More »Joe Biden recognizes Armenian Genocide in statement released by White House
“Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian Genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring,” Biden said in a statement on Saturday, commemorating Armenian Remembrance Day. Turkey rebuffed the statement immediately, with President Recep …
Read More »Top Republican Senator Mitch McConnell recognizes Joe Biden as president-elect
McConnell, a Republican, noted that “as of this morning, our country has a president-elect and a vice president-elect” in a public address on Tuesday, admitting “our system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn in,” even though “many millions of us had hoped the presidential election would …
Read More »Venezuela scenario at play? Lithuania recognizes exiled opposition figurehead Tikhanovskaya as ‘elected leader’ of Belarus
In the resolution, titled “On the Illegitimate Union Imposed by Russia on Belarus” and adopted on Thursday, the Lithuanian parliament threw its weight behind the presidential election’s official runner-up, deeming her and the Belarusian opposition’s Coordination Council “the only legitimate representatives of the Belarusian people.” The resolution refers to Tikhanovskaya …
Read More »Smartphone Vivo X20 recognizes faces in as little as 0.1 seconds
Smartphone Vivo X20, the new flagship from China, will become one of the fastest in terms of recognition of the individual in the face. Reportedly, it has built a technology Face Wake, and this is officially confirmed information, and the response speed of the sensor is only 0.1 seconds. In …
Read More »Sands: “not important” is Ukraine recognizes Crimea as Russian
This Peskov said that Ukraine is “extremely important” for Russia. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is no matter whether Ukraine recognizes the annexation of Crimea. He said this in an interview with RBC on the request to give the forecast, if …
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