Kyiv as a Function: Ukraine’s Capital in the Photographic Narratives of the Russian Empire and the USSR 🇬🇧🇺🇦

In the popular Soviet comedy “Kidnapping, Caucasian Style,” there was this episode: comrade Saakhov, a character representing a cunning and hypocritical official from the national periphery, teaches a naive but honest student, Shurik: “Everyone knows that the Kuzbass is an all-Union smithy, Kuban is an all-Union granary, so the Caucasus is an all-Union what?”

5 examples of Russia breaching Geneva Conventions 🇬🇧🇨🇳

«Persons taking no active part in the hostilities […] shall in all circumstances be treated humanely […] the following acts are and shall remain prohibited: a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture» Article 3 of the IV Geneva Convention, 1949

War in Ukraine. Daily update. Day 88-89 [10.00 am, 22-23.05.2022 🇪🇸🇸🇰🇬🇪🇭🇷🇯🇵🇨🇿🇳🇱]

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that the situation in Donbas is extremely difficult as the Russian army continues its attempt to advance on Sloviansk and Sievierodonetsk. Over the weekend, the Russians fired at a music school in Svyatogorsk in the Donetsk region.