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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicWar crime

Topic: War crime

Russian court fines opposition leader Yevgeny Roizman $3,245 for ‘discrediting’ army

Roizman, a former mayor of Russia’s Yekaterinburg, was detained last year & banned from the internet after he referred to Moscow’s actions in Ukraine as a 'war' in a YouTube video.

Ukraine sentences Russian soldier, 21, to life in first war crime case

The soldier had shot dead an unarmed elderly gentleman in Sumy in the early days of the war.

By giving a ‘war criminal’ the top Army post, Sri Lanka proves Tamil lives don’t matter

President Sirisena has made it abundantly clear that the Sri Lankan military will not be held accountable for wartime violations.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.