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In the press this Wednesday, the repression in Russia of people who attended the funeral or simply laid flowers in memory of the opponent Alexeï Navalny.
According to
the NGO Ovd-Info
, nearly 400 people have been arrested since his funeral on Friday, in 39 cities in total, from Saint Petersburg to Vladivostok, via Moscow and Yekaterinburg.
Questioned by the Italian newspaper
La Repubblica ,
Ovd-Info
spokesperson
Dmitri Anisimov claims that Russian security forces did not carry out mass arrests on the day of the funeral "so as not to create too inhuman an image ", but that "mechanical" repression was only a matter of time.
According to him, the first arrest took place on Sunday: a Muscovite filmed during the funeral, proclaiming: “Glory to the heroes”.
The NGO Ovd-Info
had warned, several days ago, of the risk of being filmed, identified and subsequently prosecuted, thanks to sophisticated facial recognition tools distributed to the municipality of Moscow and installed, in particular, near the church and the cemetery where the funeral of Alexeï Navalny took place.
The relentless repression of opponents of the Kremlin does not prevent some of them from continuing to challenge the regime.
A teacher at a state university testifies on
the opposition site Meduza
about his decision to talk to his students about Alexeï Navalny.
This professor, who wished to remain anonymous, expresses his fear of being denounced, but says he is "tired of being afraid."
“I told my students: Putin killed Navalny,” he says, after hearing them say that they did not “know everything that was happening.”
Informing the population, fighting against Kremlin propaganda, this is precisely the objective of the “
Svoboda
” satellite bouquet, which means “Freedom” in Russian.
Le Monde
announces the launch, on Tuesday, by Reporters Without Borders, of around ten independent Russian-speaking channels and radio stations broadcasting from Europe to Russia, Belarus, but also Ukrainian territories occupied by the Russian army.
A word, also, about the shutdown of the huge Tesla factory in Grünheide, near Berlin – sabotage claimed on Tuesday by a far-left group.
According to
Der Tagessepiegel
, the Berlin daily, this sabotage was described as a "terrorist" act by the minister-president of the Brandenburg region, Dietmar Woidke.
The
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
, a conservative daily, denounces the action of what it presents as "the children of the FAR",
the Red Army Faction, the far-left terrorist organization which raged in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.
Die Tageszeitung
, another Berlin daily, recalls that the group behind this sabotage, called "Vulkangruppe", had already been at the The origin, in 2021, of a first arson attack against this Tesla factory, then under construction.
At the time, this small group said it wanted to fight against “the lie of the green automobile”.
This time, these activists claim to have acted against "technofascists" such as Elon Musk, and for "the liberation of patriarchy", presenting their act as a "gift for March 8", the date of International Children's Rights Day. women.
Women's rights are still far from being a given in 2024.
The Guardian
reports a new report from the World Bank, taking into account not only wages, but also the problems of childcare and safety in transport or in the workplace.
According to the British daily, this report shows that equality between men and women remains a very distant objective and that no country can boast of having achieved it, even in advanced economies.
Still in the inequality section,
The New York Times
relays another study, this time from the UN, which indicates that climate change “disproportionately reduces the income of households headed by women in the poorest countries " – or when extreme heat further impoverishes some of the women who are already the poorest on the planet.
We won't leave each other on this.
Before we tell you tomorrow, the bizarre scientific news of the day:
The Guardian
reports that a 62-year-old German claims to have received 217 vaccines against Covid-19 in 29 months, and that he showed "no signs" side effect.
A research team says it verified 134 of the vaccinations, from eight different vaccines.
As for the reason for this sting mania, we do not know, since this “hypervaccinated” declares having acted for “private reasons”.
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