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Russian teacher fired after criticizing low salaries - World Socialist Web Site
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Russian teacher fired after criticizing low salaries
By Clara Weiss
10 February 2018

On January 31, Viktor Makarenko, a teacher, was fired from the Taganrogskii metallurgical technical school in Taganrog, a city in the Rostovskaia oblast in southern Russia. Along with several other teachers at this institution, he previously signed a letter protesting against the low salaries teachers receive in the region. The letter was sent by the teachers to regional and federal agencies, and eventually to Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev.

In the letter, which was signed by a total of 10 people, the teachers asked Medvedev to investigate why the Labor Code of the Russian Federation was, as they put it, “systematically” being violated in the region.

#russie

Sixty thousand fascists march in Warsaw - World Socialist Web Site
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Sixty thousand fascists march in Warsaw
By Clara Weiss
14 November 2017

On Saturday, November 11, at least 60,000 fascist demonstrators from Poland, Hungary and Slovakia gathered in Warsaw, the Polish capital, on Poland’s “Independence Day” to stage what has been described as the biggest far-right demonstration since the fall of Nazism. Some estimates suggested as many as 100,000 participants.

#pologne #extrême-droite

The Look of Silence: Important documentary on the aftermath of the 1965 Indonesia massacres - World Socialist Web Site

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The Look of Silence: Important documentary on the aftermath of the 1965 Indonesia massacres
By Clara Weiss
6 March 2017

Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer

The streaming provider Netflix is currently featuring The Look of Silence, a 2014 documentary by the Academy Award-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, 2012).
The Look of Silence

In a profoundly moving, intimate and disturbing way, The Look of Silence deals with the long-lasting and devastating impact the mass murder of up to one million Communists and suspected Communists in 1965-66 has had on Indonesian society.

Following a US-backed coup that overthrew the bourgeois-nationalist regime of Sukarno in the fall of 1965, the Indonesian army, mobilizing gangster and lumpen elements, exterminated vast numbers of people who were members or supporters of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) within half a year. About a quarter million people were put in concentration camps, where many lingered for over a decade.

#indonésie #massacres #asie_du_sud_est

Seventy-five years since the Wannsee Conference - World Socialist Web Site

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Seventy-five years since the Wannsee Conference
By Clara Weiss
25 January 2017

Last Friday, January 20, marked the 75th anniversary of the notorious Wannsee Conference, in which 15 influential representatives of the Nazi regime discussed at a villa in the suburb of Berlin the organization and implementation of the so-called “final solution of the Jewish question.”

#nazisme #histoire #wannsee_conference

Devastating HIV epidemic hits Russia - World Socialist Web Site
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Devastating HIV epidemic hits Russia
By Clara Weiss
10 January 2017

A quarter century after the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991, an HIV epidemic, closely bound up with massive heroin consumption, is raging in Russia. It is a devastating indictment of the social catastrophe that was brought about by the restoration of capitalism.

According to Vadim Pokrovski, head of the Federal AIDS Centre in Moscow, around 850,000 Russians were diagnosed with HIV at the beginning of 2016. Another 220,000 have died of AIDS since the late 1980s. He estimates that another half-million Russians are infected, but not diagnosed, with HIV. An estimated 100,000 were newly infected in 2016.

#russie #santé #Sida #hiv

Russia and China expand economic cooperation - World Socialist Web Site

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Russia and China expand economic cooperation
By Clara Weiss

21 November 2014

In the face of sanctions imposed by Europe and the United States, Russia has significantly expanded economic cooperation with China in recent months. In response to the Pacific and Atlantic trading blocs, the TPP and TTIP, with which the US is striving to exclude Russia and China, a bloc between Russia and China is emerging.

At the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) forum in Beijing last week, Russian and Chinese firms concluded dozens of contracts. The most important concerned the cooperation of the Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft with the Chinese state-controlled company CNPC. Rosneft sold 10 percent of the Siberian Vankor field to CNPC.

Tensions grow between Ukraine and Russia - World Socialist Web Site

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Tensions grow between Ukraine and Russia

By Clara Weiss
22 August 2013

The Russian Customs Agency has halted the import of Ukrainian goods to Russia, as of last Thursday. Moscow is seeking to prevent the signing of an association and free trade accord between Ukraine and the European Union, and trying to push Ukraine to join a Customs Union dominated by Russia.

#russie #ukraine #ex_urss #union_douanière

European Union’s Nabucco pipeline project aborted - World Socialist Web Site

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European Union’s Nabucco pipeline project aborted
By Clara Weiss
13 July 2013

The Nabucco pipeline project, which was to have transported gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe in order to bypass Russia, has been cancelled.

The pipeline, sponsored by the European Union (EU), had already been reduced last summer in length from the original 3,900 km to 1,300 km. The eastern section, which was to have run from Azerbaijan across Georgia and Turkey to the Bulgarian border, was abandoned. Instead, the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP), funded by Azerbaijan and Turkey, is due to come into operation in 2018.

#nabucco #gazoducs #russie #europe #guerre_du_gaz

Azeri-Iranian relations continue to deteriorate - World Socialist Web Site

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Azeri-Iranian relations continue to deteriorate
By Clara Weiss
24 June 2013

Relations between Azerbaijan and Iran, strained for years, are worsening in face of US and Israeli war preparations against Iran. The regime in Baku is a key military and economic partner of Washington and Tel Aviv and is being built up as a bulwark against Iran and Russia in the Caucasus.

#azerbaidjan #iran #caucase

Russian government attacks public health system - World Socialist Web Site

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Russian government attacks public health system
By Clara Weiss
24 June 2013

The Russian government is pushing through massive cuts and privatisation in the health care system. The country’s health care system is already starved financially. Health spending in Russia represents just 3.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Now, this is to be further reduced. According to announcements made last year, the state budget for 2013-2015 envisages reducing health care spending by from 506.5 to 373 billion roubles.

#russie #santé

Protests in Kyrgyzstan continue - World Socialist Web Site

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Protests in Kyrgyzstan continue

By Clara Weiss
6 June 2013

Last week’s protests against the Canadian-owned coal mine Kumtor in Kyrgyzstan have spread from the northern district Dzhety-Oguz to other parts of the country. Protesters are demanding that the owner, Centerra Gold, fork over a greater share of its profits to fund infrastructure building and finance social programmes. They are also calling for the nationalisation of the mine.

#kirghizstan #asie_centrale

Russian authorities put opposition blogger Alexei Navalny on trial - World Socialist Web Site

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Russian authorities put opposition blogger Alexei Navalny on trial
By Clara Weiss
8 May 2013

On April 17, the trial began in Russia of the blogger Alexei Navalny, who is charged with embezzlement. Navalny is one of the best-known critics of President Vladimir Putin. He was a spokesman for the protest movement that accused the Kremlin of falsifying the results of the presidential election in March 2012.

#russie #opposition

Russia presses ahead with the rebuilding of its military forces - World Socialist Web Site

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Russia presses ahead with the rebuilding of its military forces
By Clara Weiss
2 April 2013

President Vladimir Putin and other senior officials have repeatedly stressed that the upgrading of Russia’s military capacity is a top priority of Kremlin policy and that Russia is preparing for armed conflicts.

The Kremlin is currently carrying out a comprehensive modernization programme of the army and navy. The military rearmament coincides with increased attacks on the working class and fierce conflicts within the ruling elite.

#russie #armement

D’après la FaZ (quotidien allemand) le massacre de Houla, c’est les rebelles

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung confirms : Houla massacre committed by Syrian “rebels”

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By Clara Weiss
16 June 2012

On June 13 journalist Rainer Hermann confirmed his earlier report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung refuting the official version of the Houla massacre in Syria.

The media have almost unanimously described the May 5 events in Houla as an atrocity committed by the Syrian government, relying almost exclusively on reports from the so-called rebels. Western powers have used the massacre as a pretext to whip up pro-war sentiment and intensify their pressure on the Assad regime. The US and UK reacted to the massacre by withdrawing diplomats from Syria.

In his June 7 report, Hermann asserted that the victims of the massacre in Taldou, a village in the Houla region, were members of the Alawite und Shi’ite minorities and that the killers were not troops loyal to the Assad regime, but forces aligned with the Sunni-based, sectarian Free Syrian Army (FSA).