Leonid Martynyuk

Jan 21, 2025 | voanews.com | Leonid Martynyuk

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's mid-January press conference “on the performance of Russian diplomacy in 2024” was filled with false and misleading claims, many previously debunked, highlighting the Kremlin's broader disinformation tactics. Russia's disinformation aims to legitimize its war, undermine NATO and erode Western support for Ukraine.

Jan 16, 2025 | voanews.com | Leonid Martynyuk |Maria Zakharova

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the United States of “obscurantist hypocrisy” for allowing inmates to fight Los Angeles wildfires. Russia’s state-owned news agency RIA Novosti cited Zakharova on January 12, saying that the use of prisoners as firefighters is no different from China’s use of forced labor, which the U.S. has been condemning for years.

Jan 13, 2025 | voanews.com | Leonid Martynyuk

The Western trend of gender reassignment is a “sign of apocalypses,” Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, told Russian state news agency TASS in an interview broadcast on the state television Jan. 7, Orthodox Christmas.

Dec 6, 2024 | voanews.com | Leonid Martynyuk

The URL has been copied to your clipboardThe code has been copied to your clipboard. While the Georgian government has not formally abandoned the nation’s European Union aspirations, the delays in EU negotiations and rejection of financial support significantly undermine practical steps required for accession.

Dec 4, 2024 | voanews.com | Leonid Martynyuk

Mass protests continued in Georgia for nearly a week after the government postponed membership negotiations with the European Union. Thousands gathered in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi, where riot police sprayed protesters with water cannons and tear gas. Demonstrators threw fireworks and built barricades. The police arrested some 300 people while 26, including three officers, sustained injuries, the Associated Press reported.