An international tribunal is the best way to deliver a reckoning for the dictator’s devastation he has wrought on his country — Read on amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/21/the-observer-view-on-bringing-assad-to-justice-after-a-decade-of-war-in-syria

While Nazi propagandists demonized “Jews” as a collective, anti-Zionists substitute “Israel” or “Zionists” as the largest and most prominent, modern-day collective of Jews. — Read on http://www.jns.org/opinion/the-rhetoric-of-anti-zionists/

And it’s all because they so desperately want a return to a 1950s vision that never actually existed. — Read on brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/a-message-from-john-bullshit-right

On average, 22 women were killed every day in Russia in 2018, and the problem is getting worse in the pandemic. — Read on news.sky.com/story/how-russias-decision-to-decriminalise-domestic-violence-is-continuing-to-kill-12250780

Putin turns up pressure on Russian opposition ahead of September Duma elections – Atlantic Council — Read on http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-turns-up-pressure-on-russian-opposition-ahead-of-september-duma-elections/

Ukraine sanctioning Putin’s top-tier ally Medvedchuk was received as an overdue victory. But a full-fledged sanctions policy would be even better. — Read on euromaidanpress.com/2021/03/20/medvedchuk-sanctions-crimean-platform/

The government’s defence review, published this week, is a reminder of its shocking inaction to protect UK democracy from Putin’s Russia — Read on http://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/boris-johnsons-government-failing-to-protect-uk-from-russias-active-threat/

The Ex-Cops Trying To Take Down Europe’s Last Dictator – VICE — Read on http://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/93wpx7/belarus-alexander-lukashenko-bypol

A new report lays bare why Russian disinformation succeeds. — Read on http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/russia-studied-how-get-americans-make-mistakes/618328/

Documents obtained by The Daily Beast link the $230 million fraud discussed at the Trump Tower meeting in 2016 to Russia’s black-market weapons of mass destruction program. — Read on http://www.thedailybeast.com/veselnitskya-trump-tower-coverup-linked-to-secret-russian-weapons-program