The International Ski Federation (FIS) maintains the ban on athletes from Russia and Belarus. The reason is these countries’ attack on Ukraine. As expected, the reactions in Russia are negative. The reactions from Russia show how well a sporting and cultural reaction helps. It gets a lot of publicity in Russia. Norway or Russia…
Not unexpectedly, the 2022 peace prize has a clear finger pointed at Putin. The war Putin started in Ukraine had to be shown in one way or another through the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize. Many considered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj as their favorite. The problem is that the deadline for submitting candidates…
Nuns from the Belarusian monastery of St. Elisabeth are currently in Norway. Here they are raising money and calling for prayer for Putin. The monastery’s high priest supports Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Russia’s liberation of Ukraine as he calls it. In 2019, the monastery collected signatures in support of banning “Gay propaganda”. This…
Belarus is an occupied country. This is what the Belarusian Association in Norway RAZAM says on its web pages and on Facebook. The association’s support for Ukraine’s struggle to survive as an independent and free country is obvious. After the presidential election in 2020, Alexander Lukashenko survives as president because Russia has sent large…
Recently, Belarus’s main opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison for organizing demonstrations ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Several others have been sentenced to long prison terms for the same as Sergei Tikhanovsky. Sergei Tikhanovsky was the foremost counter -candidate of the sitting Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko until he…
Where do all the refugees who are now on the border between Belarus and Poland come from? Most probably they were brought by Belarus with two purposes. One is to retaliate against EU sanctions against Belarus after the authorities in Belarus forced a passenger plane to land in Minsk in order to arrest a…