Articles tagged "oppression"

North Korea to send artillery units, 150 more ballistic missiles to aid Russia’s war -- ‘King of the playground'; Russian milbloggers react to Trump’s war in Ukraine ultimatum -- [vblog] Curated Theft: An investigation into the largest museum heist in Europe since World War II -- Russian forces suspected of killing 6 more Ukrainian POWs in Donetsk Oblast -- and more

Russia blocks final document at UN nuclear treaty conference -- Russia using 'education' as a tool of oppression -- Russia shells Ukrainian military with ‘all types of weapons,’ tries to resume offensive in Donetsk Oblast -- Russia received hundreds of Iranian drones -- and more

Jeremy Cushing on how the government is attacking and undermining the institutions of democracy, Blaine Stothard on ministers’ demands for total conformity of beliefs and values, & Pat Farrington on the Tories’ cynical attempts to keep hold of power

Banning protest would make us more like Putin’s Russia than the UK. It would be a lasting and toxic legacy for Boris Johnson.

This story appears to have everything – sex, betrayal, abuse of power, lies told in high places – so, on the face of, it is somewhat surprising to find it covered only grudgingly, and at the margins of the BBC’s huge range of output.