The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has an observer mission along the line of control between the government and rebel side in south east Ukraine.
It reports that on Friday the number of ceasefire violations around the rebellious Donbas region of Ukraine had again nearly doubled:
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Arguably the best known contemporary proponent of Chinese exceptionalism in the English-language is Martin Jacques, best known for his 2009 bestseller When China Rules the World, a tour-de-force in the repackaging of orientalist tropes for the 21st-century. By framing China as a historically and culturally unique “civilisational-state,” Jacques has spent the past decade or so reinforcing the idea that China is so radically different from most other entities in world history that the only possible way to possibly understand it is through an unabashed cultural relativism. This has lead him to conclude that China’s ability to successfully stamp out successive outbreaks of COVID-19 has been due to its cultural superiority, more specifically its Confucian traditions.
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Mr Putin’s telephone conversation with President of France Emmanuel Macron
UK revives Cold War-era unit to fight ‘disinformation’
https://www.rt.com/news/550014-uk-new-cell-disinformation/
Another Day Of Still Local War In Eastern Europe
https://southfront.org/another-day-of-still-local-war-in-eastern-europe/
Young Ukrainians – Everyday Fears, Military Propaganda and Chauvinism
https://www.globalresearch.ca/young-ukrainians-everyday-fears-military-propaganda-chauvinism/5771108
The New Dark Age 