While Moscow announced, at the beginning of November 2022, that the partial mobilization was over, many young Russians continue to receive summonses from the army, and therefore to flee the ten years in prison that they risk if they refuse to to beat. In Ireland, almost 1,000 Russian men arrived in a month, a huge figure compared to the usual flows on the island. The report in Dublin by Laura Taouchanov.
Since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, many European countries have expelled Russian diplomats suspected of engaging in spying activities. But not Hungary! The nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, for his part, opens his arms wide to the representatives of Moscow. In Budapest, for example, there are twice as many Russian diplomats as in London. Florence Labruyère.
It was a long-awaited verdict in the Netherlands and which will not improve relations between The Hague and Moscow – that of the trial of the crash of flight MH17. A Malaysian Airlines plane that exploded in mid-flight in July 2014 was shot down by a Russian-made missile fired from eastern Ukraine. Moscow has always denied this information. Relations between the Netherlands and Russia are therefore at their lowest since this tragedy, the vast majority of the victims of the crash being Dutch. The explanations ofAntoine Mouteau.
The Europe of the Net chronicle by Clémence Pénard on Mastodon, the new European social network that competes with Twitter.
Lampedusa is an ultra-touristy island of 20 km2, in the south of Italy, but it is also a refuge for sea turtles, while this reptile is threatened with extinction. For 30 years, an Italian environmental protection association and passionate biologists have been trying to save this century-old animal, symbol of the island. The report of Blandine Hugonnet.