Sanctions once morest nephews of Patriarch Kirill
Kyiv imposes sanctions on another 22 Russians who belong to the Russian Orthodox Church. “Sanctions have been imposed on 22 Russian citizens who support terror and genocidal policies under the guise of spirituality,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening video address. According to a decree of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the list also includes Mikhail Gundayev, who represents the Russian Orthodox Church in the World Council of Churches and other international organizations in Geneva. According to Russian state media, he is a nephew of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill. Ukraine imposed sanctions on Kyrill last year.
No “biography”, no “memoirs”
He doesn’t want it to be seen as a biography or even a memoir. He talks regarding his rapid rise, the Ibiza affair, being voted out of parliament and his comeback, the chats and investigations by the corruption prosecutor’s office and his final retirement from politics. But also from encounters with Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
Protest in Russia: Now Putin is throwing everything into battle. Let’s remember the oft-repeated sayings: Everything is going according to plan with the “special operation” in Ukraine, warlord Vladimir Putin always assured. Then his troops had to withdraw from the vicinity of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, leaving behind terrible massacres. And finally his soldiers ran away from the advancing Ukrainian troops in the north-east. Everything according to plan, for sure. In any case, there has long been no more talk of the occupation of the entire Ukraine, or, as Putin called it, the “denazification” of the independent ex-Soviet republic. But Putin can neither afford nor endure losing. And so he now ordered a so-called “partial mobilization”. 300,000 reservists are also to go into the war once morest Ukraine – which probably no longer goes through as a “special operation” in Russia either. What does Russia commentator Gerhard Mangott think regarding the new escalation? In today’s “Krone”, the Innsbruck professor points out, among other things, that the Russian population has “definitely not had a majority once morest the war”. He writes: “But when fathers and sons are torn from their families, professionals are taken out of their factories and sent to the front, everyone gets the impression that the country is at war.” the appearance of normality can be preserved. Now, however, Putin has to worry that the mood among the population might change and that, despite the tough censorship laws, there would be protests in the big cities (as in Moscow in the evening, pictured above). We wish this sorrow to the cruel warlord!