Also in 2014, the Putin regime unleashed a persecution against an NGO called Memorial, which investigated communist crimes. Ultimately, that NGO was outlawed in 2021. In 2017 Putin declared that the ...

At the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada’s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was ...

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Senior judge was found to have committed misconduct Wrote essay calling justice’s flag-flying ‘improper’ A federal judge committed judicial misconduct in criticizing Justice Samuel Alito’s flying of ...

Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor in Springfield, Massachusetts, wrote in his May 24, 2024, essay that any judge with reasonable ethical instincts would have realized that flying a flag ...

Czechoslovakia exemplified how small acts of courage can defy oppressive regimes. Their resistance, from refusing to display communist flags to raising their children to reject lies, came at a great ...

People in Syria and those across the world have taken to the streets to celebrate the end of dictator Bashar Al Assad's brutal regime, raising an alternative version of the country's official flag.

Damascus (AFP) – With the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, the independence-era flag adopted by activists and rebels during the 2011 revolt has replaced the official flag on streets ...

The Bangladesh disclosure came a day after foreign secretary Vikram Misri raised concerns over the attacks on minorities and conveyed India's concerns. Bangladesh on Tuesday confirmed 88 incidents ...

In an extremely normal turn of events, a far-right magazine recently published an essay consisting entirely of edited passages from The Communist Manifesto. American Reformer is a prominent ...

After the surprise ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad following a sweeping campaign by opposition militia, Syrians have raised a new flag to represent the overthrow of nearly six decades o ...