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Articles from the March 14, 2022 edition


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  • Russia Plans to Publicly Execute Captured Ukrainian Mayors, Captured Military Officers on State Television

    David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer|Mar 14, 2022

    Update: The Russian army released Ivan Federov in exchange for 9 captured soldiers, on March 15, 2022. When Russian soldiers put a hood on the Mayor of Melitopol, Ukraine last week, and led him away to jail, probably few would have believed that this would be the lead up to a public execution. After all, Russia is a modern country which has hosted public demonstrations agains the war (albeit with the protestors being detained in Russian cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg). There are...

  • Ukraine Post Office Announces Winner of "Russian Warship, Go F@#K Yourself" Competition

    David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer|Mar 14, 2022

    Ukraine Post Office Announces Winner of "Russian Warship, Go F@#K Yourself" Competition. The winning design features a soldier standing on a yellow and blue background, giving a warship the middle finger. The Ukraine post office website is at : https://www.ukrposhta.ua/en There is nothing about this competition on their website, which leads me to believe that it's probably just an internet meme. But it's still a pretty funny one. Another design features the logo "Finders Keepers," as a...

  • 100 years to the day since Shackleton was buried, Endurance has been found.

    David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer|Mar 14, 2022

    1 years to the day since British explorer Ernest Shackleton was buried, the Endurance has been found. Working in the Weddell Sea, she was discovered at 3000 meters depth on 5 March 2022, announced the National Geographic Survey. Built of Scandinavian pine and oak, the Endurance was crushed by the ice in 1915. This was filmed by the crew in 1915, amazingly. "I have been thinking much of our prospects," Ernest Shackleton wrote in the austral spring of 1915, adrift in the Weddell Sea pack ice....

  • A Channel One Employee Interrupted Moscow News to Broadcast Statement. She Left a TikTok Video

    David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer|Mar 14, 2022

    Update: Kyiv Independent identifies the woman who rushed the set of Vremya: "During the "Vremya" news program on Russia's main TV channel, Maria Ovsyannikova, a Channel One employee, rushed in front of the camera with a poster saying "stop the war, don't believe the propaganda." She recorded a video before interrupting Channel One's live broadcast. “What is currently happening in Ukraine is a crime. Russia is a country-aggressor.” Ovsyannikova said, in a translation by @JuliaDavisNews. "All res...