#omsk

olladij@diaspora.permutationsofchaos.com

Bohdan is an airfield service employee at #Hostomel Airport, which was the site of heavy fighting at the very start of the war. For three weeks, he and his family lived in the basement of their apartment building, right across from the occupied airport. The building, which came under heavy fire at times, was occupied first by Chechen riot #police, then by an airborne assault unit from #Omsk. In mid-March, all of the basement’s inhabitants were forcibly taken to #Belarus. Bohdan told Meduza his story.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/20/you-re-lucky-it-was-us-chechens-who-found-you #war #ukraine #chechnya #grozny #russia #military

anonymiss@despora.de

“These Bastards Will Never See Our Tears”: How Yulia #Navalnaya Became #Russia’s Real First Lady

source: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/how-yulia-navalnaya-became-russias-real-first-lady

Her husband, she learned, hadn’t died, but the hardest was yet to come. At the hospital in #Omsk, Navalnaya would encounter a wall of doctors who seemed more scared of their civilian superiors than they were of losing their patient. They were reinforced—or kept in line—by a small battalion of plainclothes federal security officers, all intent on keeping her from seeing her husband. To enter his room, she would need to present a marriage certificate, they said, and secure verbal consent from #Navalny, who was still unconscious and on life support.


#politics #power #democracy #humanrights #police #health #news