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Dracula (Vladimir Yaroshenko) and Jonathan (Patryk Walczak) tango from the Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa's version of Dracula (2024)

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Vladimir Yaroshenko | Polish National Ballet

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Journal du vendredi 13 janvier 2023.

Vents d’Est : avril 1993-Avril 1999.

Les minorités dans l’ex-monde communiste d’Europe de l’Est  après la chute de l’empire soviétique. Je vais dans ce journal vous présenter dans le désordre des photos de ce travail initié en 1993 et terminé en 1999.

  Le livre Vents d’Est, publié en 2000 avait été conçu en quatre parties, les quatre saisons, métaphores de la vie qui passe. L’hiver regroupait les minorités en lutte ou en proies à des discriminations, le printemps accompagnait les minorités qui commençaient à s’en sortir avec une démocratie encore balbutiante et des portes qui s’ouvraient vers un futur, l’été et le bonheur retrouvé, ou tout simplement trouvé, et l’automne encore incertain avec des gouvernants qui se servaient des minorités comme d’une monnaie  d’échange, donnant donnant, politique oblige.

Les Tatars de Crimée étaient dans le printemps, espoir de jours meilleurs qui semblaient se profiler dans un ciel rempli des lumière de la liberté.

Avec la  prise de contrôle de la Russie sur la Crimé  en 2014, et en 2022 la guerre en Ukraine, c’est l’hiver qui revient en force avec son lot d’incertitudes.

Le gouvernement russe recherche avant tout de la chair à canon en faisant appel à des peuples minoritaires.

 Alors que Vladimir Poutine a annoncé une mobilisation partielle des forces de réserve russes pour aller combattre sur le front ukrainien, des ONG alertent sur une surmobilisation de certaines minorités.

C'est le cas de SOS Crimée (KrymSOS), qui dénonce la proportion de Tatars appelés en Crimée, ce territoire annexé par la Russie en 2014. 90% des convocations envoyées dans cette région leur auraient été adressées, selon des estimations préliminaires citées par l'organisation, alors qu'ils ne représenteraient que 13 à 15% de la population de cette région.

"Une telle ampleur de la mobilisation peut conduire à un génocide caché du peuple tatar de Crimée" dénonce Yevgeny Yaroshenko, analyste de SOS Crimée.

"Les Tatars de Crimée représentent le segment de la population le moins loyal à la Russie, et il était clair qu'ils étaient très soutenus par les récents succès militaires ukrainiens. Maintenant, ils sont punis", analyse pour le journal britannique Tamila Tasheva, cofondatrice de SOS Crimée et représentante du président ukrainien en Crimée.

"Ils ont d'abord essayé de nous acheter, puis ils ont essayé de nous réprimer et maintenant ils voient la mobilisation comme un moyen d'essayer de se débarrasser simplement de nous", a-t-elle ajouté.

Même constat en Bouriatie, où l'association Free Buryatia Foundation constate non pas "une mobilisation partielle" mais "une mobilisation à 100%". La présidente de l'organisation a en effet indiqué au Guardian avoir "reçu et identifié plus de 3000 documents livrés en Bouriatie dans les 24 heures suivant l'annonce du projet par Vladimir Poutine."

Photo du journal d’aujourd’hui : Jeunes filles s'apprêtant à danser. Fête à Bakhchysaray pour la venue du président de la Turquie, Mr Demirel, le 23 mai 1998.

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U.S. and Russia Free Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in Prisoner Swap

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U.S. and Russia Free Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in Prisoner Swap

(WASHINGTON) — The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan in a multinational deal that set some two dozen people free, according to officials in Turkey, where the exchange took place. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]

The Journal confirmed the release, with top editor Emma Tucker saying in a staff email: “I cannot even begin to describe the immense happiness and relief that this news brings and I know all of you will feel the same.”

The trade followed years of secretive back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Read More: The Fight to Free Evan Gershkovich

The sprawling deal is the latest in a series of prisoner swaps negotiated between Russia and the U.S. in the last two years but the first to require significant concessions from other countries. But the release of Americans has come at a price: Russia has secured the freedom of its own nationals convicted of serious crimes in the West by trading them for journalists, dissidents and other Westerners convicted and sentenced in a highly politicized legal system on charges the U.S. considers bogus.

The White House did not immediately release any details on the deal.

In a statement posted online, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty President and CEO Stephen Capus acknowledged media reports that a journalist working for the broadcaster, Alsu Kurmasheva, would be released as part of the deal.

Capus said the broadcaster welcomed ’’news of Alsu’s imminent release and are grateful to the American government and all who worked tirelessly to end her unjust treatment by Russia.” Kurmasheva, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen, was convicted in July of spreading false information about the Russian military, accusations her family and employer have rejected.

The deal would be the latest exchange in the last two years between Washington and Moscow, including a December 2022 trade that brought WNBA star Brittney Griner back to the U.S. in exchange for notorious arms trafficker Viktor Bout and a swap earlier that year of Marine veteran Trevor Reed for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot convicted in a drug trafficking conspiracy.

President Joe Biden placed securing the release of Americans held wrongfully overseas at the top of his foreign policy agenda for the six months before he leaves office. In his Oval Office address to the American people discussing his recent decision to drop his bid for a second term, the Democrat said, “We’re also working around the clock to bring home Americans being unjustly detained all around the world.”

Russia also got back Vadim Krasikov, who was convicted in Germany in 2021 of killing a former Chechen rebel in a Berlin park two years earlier, apparently on the orders of Moscow’s security services, according to a statement from the Turkish government.

Speculation had mounted for weeks that a swap was near because of a confluence of unusual developments, including a startingly quick trial and conviction for Gershkovich that Washington regarded as a sham. He was sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security prison.

Also in recent days, several other figures imprisoned in Russia for speaking out against the war in Ukraine or over their work with the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were moved from prison to unknown locations.

Read More: Brittney Griner: What I Endured in a Russian Prison

Gershkovich was arrested March 29, 2023, while on a reporting trip to the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. Authorities claimed, without offering any evidence, that he was gathering secret information for the U.S. The son of Soviet emigres who settled in New Jersey, he moved to the country in 2017 to work for The Moscow Times newspaper before being hired by the Journal in 2022.

He had more than a dozen closed hearings over the extension of his pretrial detention or appeals for his release. He was taken to the courthouse in handcuffs and appeared in the defendants’ cage, often smiling for the many cameras.

U.S. officials last year made an offer to swap Gershkovich that was rejected by Russia, and Biden’s Democratic administration had not made public any possible deals since then.

Gershkovich was designated as wrongfully detained, as was Whelan, who was detained in December 2018 after traveling to Russia for a wedding. Whelan was convicted of espionage charges, which he and the U.S. have also said were false and trumped up, and he is serving a 16-year prison sentence.

Whelan had been excluded from prior high-profile deals involving Russia, including those involving Reed and Griner.

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Litvinova reported from Tallinn, Estonia, and Lee from Mongolia. Associated Press writer Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.

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Photographer Dmitry Markov died in Pskov on February 16. He was 41 years old. Markov was one of the most significant photographers in modern Russia. Not only did he chronicle everyday life in the country’s regions, but he also tried to make it better through volunteer work. Markov’s work was shown around the world, with exhibitions in Paris and New York. He took part in the advertising campaign for the iPhone 7. In fact, his smartphone was his primary camera for many years. Markov also worked as a photojournalist, including for Takie Dela and Meduza. Critic Anton Khitrov explains how the photographer gave himself a worthy artistic task — and how he brought it to fruition.

“You show the truth.” “Cowardly Russia.” “Your photos make my heart ache.” One only has to read the comments on Dmitry Markov’s Instagram to be convinced. The documentary photographer, who captured provincial Russia, had a large — over 800,00 Instagram followers — and grateful audience. People commented on his interview with Yury Dud three years ago with the same appreciation.

Markov was loved as both a brilliant storyteller and an outstanding person. Having overcome drug addiction, he took up volunteer work and converted his professional success into helping people. Markov began working with community organizations in the mid-2000s. Born in Pushkino near Moscow, he moved to Pskov and worked for Rostok, a charity organization that helps children with disabilities integrate into society.

Since 2012, Markov has participated in street protests, and in 2021, after being detained at a rally in support of Alexey Navalny, he took what was probably his most viral photo: a riot policeman in a balaclava sitting under a portrait of Vladimir Putin. Markov then organized an auction on Facebook to sell the photo. He received two million rubles ($21.6k) from an anonymous buyer and transferred it all to OVD-Info and Apologia Protesta: human rights organizations that help people who are arrested at political demonstrations.

Markov continued the tradition of unofficial Soviet photography, in which life in the USSR was shown without regard for ideological objectives. His tutor was Alexander Lapin, a photographer, theorist, and pedagogue, who taught Gennady Bodrov, Igor Mukhin, Emil Gataullin and other stars of the profession, and also wrote two famous textbooks: Photography as… and Plane and Space, or Life as a Square. Markov may also have been influenced by Boris Mikhailov, the famous Soviet-Ukrainian documentary photographer who, among other things, took pictures of homeless people.

If we look further, Markov belongs to the tradition of Maxim Gorky and Vladimir Gilyarovsky, of Ilya Repin and Nikolay Yaroshenko — to the artistic tradition in which art claims to be a truthful reflection of society and seeks to make invisible people visible.

Markov's main platform was Instagram, and his main tool was his smartphone. In 2013, he took part in a project by American David Alan Harvey called Burn Diary. For one week, Markov ran an Instagram account with the same name. According to the rules of the project, only photos taken on a phone could be published — and only on the day they were taken. Markov adopted the same principles for his own account. In an interview with Afisha Daily, he said that a photographer with professional equipment is less trustworthy than a photographer with a smartphone. It’s hard not to see the decision as a conceptual gesture: smartphones and social networks are tools of demonstrative consumption, but Markov uses them to show a life that’s as far from glossy as possible.

How are Markov’s images organized? First of all, they refer to the viewers’ cultural experience. The color palette is like that of an old Russian painting: for example, the frescoes of Dionisy in the Ferapontov Monastery. The composition often resembles a theatrical mise-en-scène: in the background — plain decoration, in the foreground — “actors” who move along the screen, as if from one stage entrance to the other, appearing and disappearing again. His characters often appear in a frame that resembles the frame of a painting or a stage entrance. Individual scenes call to mind Pieter Bruegel the Elder's “Hunters in the Snow,” a Renaissance portrait, or Alexander Deyneka's “Future Pilots.” Thus, Markov defends the place of his subjects in culture: provincial schoolchildren, laborers, commuters, and regulars at the city bathhouse — insisting that any person is worthy of our attention along with the subjects of globally recognized masterpieces.

Markov’s focus was often was the contrast between the official and the private, the artificial and the natural, the planned and the accidental. Komsomol teenagers walking near a monument to the first builders. Children relaxing under a statue of Lenin’s head in Ulan-Ude. A cat in a window squinting at a Russian flag. In the composition of the frame, state-approved symbols and living beings always balance each other out: in the world that Markov shows, at least the narratives of power are not omnipotent.

Markov’s creative strategy, which could be called alternative or protest patriotism, was in high demand. It unites the photographer with other cult heroes of Russian art, such as the artist Nikolay Polissky or director Kirill Serebrennikov, who has collaborated with Markov. The essence of this strategy is the search for a Russian identity that is different from the one offered to society by the authorities.

These artists are trying to strengthen the emotional bond between Russians and their country, even though propaganda has done everything possible to destroy it. The Nikola-Lenivets art park founded by Polissky redefines the image of the Russian village: not as a sanctuary of traditional morality, but as a space of play, irony and creativity. Serebrennikov’s Gogol Center, which was closed in 2022, fought for a progressive image of domestic classics, which propaganda treats as another instrument of Russian superiority. Markov spoke about the people hidden behind the “the people” of ideology — and gave the audience a chance to feel solidarity with a vendor at a clothing market, a pensioner from a district center, a rural chauffeur. He had a concrete and convincing answer to the question of why art is needed in Russia today: to rebuild the bridges destroyed by the authorities.

Markov’s solidarity with his subjects was always natural for him: he grew up in small-town courtyards in Pskov, a town of 190,000, washed in a local bathhouse, and never felt out of place in the environment of his work. Despite his international profile — projects with Apple, solo exhibitions in Moscow, Paris, and New York — he felt at ease with his subjects. For Markov, it was unthinkable not to feel this solidarity.

In the last days of his life, Markov faced criticism on social media: users were upset by his sympathy for a soldier on leave who intended to return to the front. The next day, he revealed that he was helping the conscripts he knew with money. “I can’t stop loving people close to me and start hating them,” he wrote. “And I realize that I’m a legitimate target for hatred on the part of Ukrainians. I don’t know how to do the right thing in this situation.” In 2024, no one has the right answer. One thing is certain: if Markov had lived through the war, he would certainly want to work on national reconciliation.

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Putin Names Swapped Convict Yaroshenko to Prison Oversight Spot

Putin Names Swapped Convict Yaroshenko to Prison Oversight Spot

Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who spent more than a decade in a U.S. jail before being returned to Russia in a prisoner swap, was appointed a member of Russia’s Civic Chamber by President Vladimir Putin on Friday. Yaroshenko, who was arrested in Liberia in 2010 and extradited to the United States on drug charges, was convicted of cocaine smuggling and sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. jail.…

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Yuka Ebihara and Vladimir Yaroshenko in Don Quixote.

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chinara alizade and vladimir yaroshenko photographed performing as baroness mary vetsera and crown prince rudolf of hungary in kenneth macmillan's mayerling by ewa krasucka

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(VIDEO) U.S., RUSSIA SWAP PRISONERS TREVOR REED AND YAROSHENKO AMID TENSIONS

The United States and Russia swapped prisoners on Wednesday amid their most tense relations in decades over the conflict in Ukraine, with former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed released in exchange for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko.The swap was not part of broader diplomatic talks and did not represent an American change in approach to Ukraine, U.S. officials said. Russian-American ties have been…

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Moscow thanks Turkey for assistance in Russian prisoner's release from US

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Moscow thanks Turkey for assistance in Russian prisoner's release from US

Moscow (Times Of Ocean)- Russia thanked Turkey on Thursday for helping free Russian detainee Konstantin Yaroshenko, who had been held in the US for 20 years.

During a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked him for assistance in the prisoner swap between US Marine Trevor Reed and Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko at an airport in Turkey.

Putin was told by Erdogan that Turkey’s role in the exchange is not only a sign that the country prioritizes peace, dialogue, and cooperation, but also a meaningful effort in terms of mediation.

He also reiterated Turkey’s willingness to mediate to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Yaroshenko was arrested in Liberia in 2010 on drug smuggling charges and extradited to the United States, where he was serving a 20-year prison term.

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Acting Emergencies Minister Alexander Chupryan told Putin there had been 4,000 forest fires since the start of the year across 270,000 hectares - an area larger than Luxembourg.

The 2021 fire season was Russia's largest ever, with 18.8 million hectares of forest destroyed, according to Greenpeace Russia.

Greenpeace said that as of late April, wildfires were more widespread than at the same point last year, though they were below the average for recent years.

Alexei Yaroshenko, head of the forest programme at Greenpeace Russia, said that much would depend on the summer weather, but that Russia was likely to see another historically large fire season.

Yaroshenko said: “Nothing has changed since last year. For now, we are likely to see another major fire season.”

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Vladimir Yaroshenko | Polish National Ballet | Photo by Piotr Leczkowski

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Brittney Griner Stuck in Limbo

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Sept. 17, 2022.--President Joe Biden, 79, hosted families of WNBA star Brittney Griner and defense contractor Paul Whelan, both of whom stuck in Russian prisons, Whelan since 2018 and Griner since Feb. 17, but only recently, Aug. 4, sent to a Russian penal colony.  Biden told the families he’s doing everything humanly possibly to get the U.S. citizens out of Russian jail, considers them illegally detained.  But Biden had nothing new to report because the progress in negotiations for their release through a prisoner swap has stalled out.  Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. made his Russian counterpart 72-year-old Sergey Lavrov a substantial deal that would involve releasing Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bolt.  But whatever offer was made, it hasn’t made much difference with back channels in Russia showing no interest in releasing high profile U.S. detainees in Russian custody.

So, why after so many negotiations, so much time, so may empty promises, do Griner and Whelan remain in limbo.  No White House Spokesman, including National Security and  Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby, and no U.S. or foreign news outlet, has explained the snag in getting Griner and Whelan out.  It wasn’t than long ago, April 28, that the State Department got 30-year-old former Marine Trevor Reed out of a Russian jail, in a swap for drug smuggler Konstantin Yaroshenko.  But things are different right now with U.S.-Russian relations hitting rock bottom, almost to the point to breaking off diplomatic relations.  Biden didn’t tell Griner and Whelan’s families that prisoner swaps are more difficult now that the U.S. is in a determined proxy war to topple the Russian Federation.  Even former U.N. Amb and hostage negotiator Gov. Bill Richardson, , couldn’t make any headway in Moscow.

Things are different now between the U.S. and Russia, an unprecedented state of deteriorated U.S.-Russian relations, all because Biden adopted Ukraine as a puppet U.S. regime.  Biden sold out U.S.-Russian relations, all to pay Ukrainian troops to fight a proxy war with the Russian Federation.  So how’s that supposed to work for U.S. prisoners in Russian jails?  Not one U.S. media outlet mentions anything about Biden funding a proxy war against the Russian Federation with the intent of toppling 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The president appreciated the opportunity to learn more about Brittney and Paul from those who love them most, and acknowledged that every minute they are being held is a minute too long,” said Kirby.  Kirby doesn’t explain the state of war between the U.S. and Russia, preventing the prisoner swaps from moving forward, leaving Griner and Whelan in Russian jail.

Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison Aug. 4 for cannabis possession, something a serious drug crime in Russia.  Griner had her Russian attorney tell a Moscow judge that she had a prescription for medical cannabis from Arizona to cope with chronic pain from basketball injuries.  At the same time, Griner told the judge that she inadvertently through the vape cartridges in her luggage before she left to play basketball for the Russian UMMC Eukaterinburg basketball team.  Biden antagonized the Kremlin repeating that Griner was unlawfully detained, when she violated Russian drug laws.  Biden’s had every chance as president to remove cannabis from the Federal Drug Registry, making marijuana legal in the United States.  But Biden has not done anything, other than make matters worse for Griner and Whelan.  If Biden wanted both out, he would pivot on Ukraine.

As long as the U.S. pays the Ukrainians to fight a proxy war against Putin, why should the Russian leader play ball with Biden?  Never before has any U.S. precedent wrecked U.S.-Russian relations, let alone fought a proxy war against the Kremlin. Through the Soviet era, to the end of Soviet Union, to the Russian Federation no U.S. president has trashed U.S. –Russian relations like Biden.  Whether Biden has support from war hawks in Congress, he decided to adopt Ukraine at the expense of U.S.-Russian relations.  If Biden wants to make any real progress with Griner and Whelan, he needs to end the unlimited and cash-and-lethal-arms shipped to Ukraine.  While Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky has a real problem with Putin, that doesn’t mean the U.S. can’t continue to improve diplomatic relations with Moscow, including ending the Ukraine War.

Biden and Kirby blow smoke to Griner and Whelan’s families, telling them they’re doing everything possible to get out their loved ones.  If Biden really wanted to get Griner and Whelan out a Russian jail, he would pivot on the Ukraine War, telling Zelensky that the war must move to the peace table.  Instead of supplying Zelensky more lethal weapons, like the HIMARS medium to long-range missile system, Biden should meet with Putin to end the proxy war against Moscow.  Biden has no business fighting a U.S. proxy war against the Russian Federation, all because of a border dispute with Kiev. Zelensky must learn how to resolve conflicts with Putin and the Kremlin, not expect the U.S. and NATO to fight his battles.  If there’s any chance of getting Griner and Whelan out of Russian jail, Biden must switch gears, come to his senses and end the proxy war against the Russian Federation.

About the Author    

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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Vladimir Putin has appointed pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. prison on drug-smuggling charges in 2011, to the Civic Chamber, an advisory body within the Russian government. The presidential order refers to Yaroshenko as a “human rights activist and public figure.”

Before his arrest, Yaroshenko worked as a passenger and cargo pilot in Africa. In 2010, he was arrested in Liberia and extradited to the U.S. According to investigators, Yaroshenko planned to transport several tons of cocaine from Latin America to the U.S. through Liberia.

Yaroshenko pleaded not guilty. In 2011, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy to transport drugs to the U.S. In late April 2022, the U.S. government exchanged Yaroshenko for American college student Trevor Reed, who was sentenced to 9 years in prison in Russia for allegedly assaulting police officers.

In May 2022, Yaroshenko said he planned to go into the community service sector in Russia. “It seems to me right now that all of my knowledge, my abilities, maybe, will somehow serve a purpose in Russian public life, to show what the Americans are really like,” he said.