Russia destroys Ukrainian cities, your relatives don’t believe in it? Here is a set of links that can reach them
The most common questions and how to answer them
Let’s start by debunking the most popular arguments, the current intention is to condemn the war: “Where have you been for the last eight years”, “Putin just ended the war”, “Ukrainians themselves are asking Putin to intervene” and so on.
The list “Handbook for anti-war disputes in the family and at work” was compiled by Doxa magazine – as a recognition of Roskomnadzor at first goal delete materialafter which the site stopped applying (however, it did not appear in the lock register). Here is a reprint of this material. Wanderzin collected instruction about how they talk with people, you meet, your views do not coincide: does it make sense to argue, how not to react emotionally, as on the border with the fact that not everyone can be persuaded.
Content: here is the detailed story human rights activist Varvara Pakhomenko about the fact that they were actually treated in Donbass in the last eight years (she worked in the UN mission in Ukraine).
Specialists find that in exceptional cases, people begin to behave differently: Here are two instructions from psychologists (guide from “Fontanka” And guide from the already blocked The Village) that lead to a conversation with people with different reactions – in some cases from leaving.
Who has already spoken out against the war
Russian TV channels confirm to the audience that the action on the territory of the neighboring state is approved by all segments of the population. But this is not so: in the first week of the war alone, his discussion of Russian foreign policy is tens of thousands of people – and this is not connected with discontent. Among them are physicianshere they explain their affiliation), teachers, students, representatives of culture and art, philanthropists and many others – by this link you can find a selection of all open letters against the war.
On the already blocked website of the BBC Russian Service against military action here some deputies of the State Duma do not approve, here detect anti-war quotes from the children of prominent politicians and officials, and here collected chronicle of protests against the war in Russian cities.
Debunking propaganda
To start – Fact check of the blocked “BBC” about what is wrong with the thesis “fascists are in power in Ukraine.” In this article it was analyzed how exactly the Kremlin propaganda prepared Russian public opinion for the upcoming war.
And propaganda in action: here Russian teachers tell how they are sent training manuals to justify the war in Ukraine, but here schoolchildren’s impressions from the propaganda lessons “My Country”, which began on March 1, to love the children about the war among the Kremlin.
Chronicle of current events
Relatives of Russian prisoners and dead soldiers
- On the first day of the war, Valeriy Zaluzhny, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, posted a photo of two men in uniforms claiming to be captured government officials on the page of the Ukrainian Army Commander-in-Chief. Later, a video appeared on the network with the participation of one of them: he called himself Rafik Rakhmankulov and stated that he was a servant in the department of the engineering and sapper company of Russia. The BBC and Rain It Talked to the Parents: with the advent and with my father. Now the BBC website is blocked in Russia, but it can be read via VPN, all content of the Dozhd YouTube channel has been removed.
- Game Interview a soldier from Saratov who died during the fighting in Ukraine on February 24. Already after the publication of the fn-volga website, the word “war” had to be replaced with the word “special operation”, because they are fighting in Russia prohibited called “war”. A day earlier, Maxim Khanygin, who had been killed, called home and told his family that they were being taken to an exercise. Here is a report from Radio Libertya correspondent who visited the family of Maxim Khanygin from the village of Ozernoye, Atkarsky District, and spoke with a participant in the captive Rafik Rakhmankulov from Petrovsk.
- After the adoption of the law on “fakes” “Novaya Gazeta” was forced to delete interview with Olga Dyachuk, sister of senior sergeant of the Russian army Roman Bugantsov taken prisoner in Ukraine. A video of his interrogation appeared on social networks a few days after the start of the war.
- Interviews with relatives of prisoners of war from Russia. They report that they learn about the capture of their relatives in Ukraine from photos and videos posted online by the Ukrainian military.
- How in Russia there were historical stories that were missing in the past. It is not uncommon for the publication of videos and data on film performances to persecute their relatives.
Russians about Ukraine
- Report “Medusa“from the border Belgorod region. Russian troops who appeared there a few months ago.
- Instructive video about how Russians react to photos of bombers and rocket attacks on cities.
- Interview with a scientist from Russia who apologized to a colleague from Ukraine at the UN climate conference “on behalf of all Russians for the fact that we did not find this conflict.” Representative of Ukraine Svetlana Krakovskaya responded by thanking “the Russians who have considered this madness.”
What is happening in Ukraine
- Currently, online about the war with Ukraine continues: this is the last timeYou can go to the review by following the link inside the material.
- Photos from Kyiv and Kharkovwhere people have been hiding from the bombings in the subway since the first day. Pictures of Ukrainian citiescomes from bombings. Instagram photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner Lindsey Addario, who is currently based in Ukraine.
- Story about how often captured Ukrainian cities are protesting against the Russian military is a good answer to the argument that the Ukrainians themselves asked for Putin to bring in troops.
- Story correspondent of Present Time, who witnessed a meeting of people who were trying to get out of the almost destroyed Russian army of Irpin.
- How do Ukrainians communicate with the public with relatives and friends today?.
- Report from the children’s hospital in Kyiv. There, during the bombing, the medical staff evacuates sick children to the basement.
- Interview with a resident of Gostomel, a city seven kilometers from Kyiv. The heroine of this material was locked in a warring city with a sick man and two dozen animals.
How to read, whom to read and how to do it when everything is blocked
During the first week of the war, Roskomnadzor blocked all remaining independent media and restricted access to Facebook and Twitter. How to read the news now? Here is the instruction Present tense, here from “Paper Tips”. Here – Tom advises how to read the news correctly and distinguish reliable sources from unreliable ones.