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HUNDREDS of academics, staff, students and alumni of Novosibirsk State University have signed a condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The petition from one of Russia’s most prestigious universities, located in Akademgorodok, the “academic city” founded by the Soviet Academy of Sciences in the 1950s, underlines the difficulty the Vladimir Putin government is having suppressing widespread opposition to the war, despite thousands of arrests.
Police have used sweeping bans on “criticism of the armed forces” and “fake news” to arrest citizens for protests including standing in the road with a blank sheet of paper, holding up quotes from Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy and even holding aloft a packet of ham from the Miratorg brand but with a hand covering the letters “…atorg,” leaving the Russian word for peace.
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
