Svetlana Ekimenko

1 week ago | sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko

Weighing in on Russia’s Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square, foreign journalists shared their excitement and tremendous sense of honor to be a part of the events. Here’s what they told Sputnik:“It’s important to be here,” said Spanish journalist Albert Sort Creus from Barcelona, who is in Moscow for the first time.

1 week ago | sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko

The US is typically citing China’s “aggressive behavior” as a pretext to further ratchet up tensions in the The US Army has created agile new units to operate in a potential conflict with China over Taiwan, The Wall Street Journal reported.

1 week ago | alethonews.com | Svetlana Ekimenko |Rick Rozoff

Sandu’s Pro-Western Regime Forces Students to Deny Moldovan Identity By Svetlana Ekimenko – Sputnik – 04.05.2025After President Maia Sandu, who adheres to a pro-European policy, came to power in the republic at the end of 2020, there followed political crackdowns, media purges, and a rewriting of history to fit the agenda. A new history textbook for school claims Moldovans don’t exist – they’re just Romanians.

1 week ago | sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko

Leo Aland endured brutal conditions and abuse at the hands of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Here’s what we know: Aland, 20, volunteered to fight in Ukraine after his Finnish military service, despite his family’s strong objections, Yle reported. His service contract bound him to six months with Ukrainian forces. The Finnish Foreign Ministry’s guidelines warn that contracts are nearly impossible to break – something he never got the chance to learn.

1 week ago | sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko

A new history textbook for school claims Moldovans don’t exist – they’re just Romanians. Moldovans do not exist as a separate nation at all, the authors state, leaning on century-old quotes from Teofil Ioncu, a member of the National Moldavian Party. Back in 1917, he argued that “Moldova” and “Moldovans” were just geographic terms – not indicators of national identity. Citing the 2024 census, the textbook claims that around 82% of Moldovans identify as either Romanians or Moldovans.