"Pendant des siècles, les autorités russes ont traité leurs peuples comme d'autres pays traitent leurs colonies d'outre-mer : en pillant les ressources naturelles, en écrasant les dissidents et en imposant une russification impitoyable."

#Russie #impérialisme #colonisation #russification
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/west-must-prepare-for-a-splintering-russia-j6jfpzr23

Well, this is interesting. Betting Russians are confused about Reznikov. Alas this is also about #russification https://open.substack.com/pub/nadinabbott/p/russification-and-the-offensive-again?r=9kta6&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

The forcible transfer and ‘ #russification ’ of #Ukrainian #children shows #evidence of #genocide , says PACE

https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9075/the-forcible-transfer-and-russification-of-ukrainian-children-shows-evidence-of-genocide-says-pace

"Mariupol - The ruin of a city"
In-depth #Guardian report on the invasion, siege, destruction, and #Russification of the #Ukrainian city of #Mariupol

"For more than 80 days, the Russians bombarded Mariupol, determined to take the port city even if they had to raze it to the ground first."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2023/feb/23/mariupol-the-ruin-of-a-city

#Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #WarCrimes

me reboosting Yaroslav Trofimov retweeting Alexander Clarkson @APHClarkson quote-tweeting Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv

tldr: #Odesa removed a #monuent to Catherine II. (Which is imho a good thing to do, as she was quite methodical and successful in terms of #Ukrainian erasure and #russification). #Statues of #tyrants belong to museums of tyranny, not to the streets.

#Mediazona has registred the home regions of 10000 dead #russian soldiers that died in #Ukraine durting 2022.
It's not that surprising that many have come from regions with a high count of minority peoples, #Russia keeps on with #russification which it's been doing since the 19th century, the #war in Ukraine is just nor about control ofUkraine but cleansing Russia of minorities.

#Mediazona has registred the home regions of 10000 dead #russian soldiers that died in #Ukraine durting 2022.
It's not that surprising that many have come from regions with a high count of minority peoples, #Russia keeps on with #russification which it's been doing since the 19th century, the #war in Ukraine is just nor about control ofUkraine but cleansing Russia of minorities.