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The fact of the day
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The Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this Sunday that an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council would be held at its request on Monday. At the heart of the discussions: the foray of three Russian planes in its airspace. They stayed there for about 12 minutes. Italy, which assumes within NATO a police mission from the sky Baltic, but also Sweden and Finland have made aircraft take off to intercept the three intruders.
This is the first time in thirty-four years of membership in Estonia to the UN that this member country of the EU and NATO, and firm support from Ukraine, officially requests an emergency meeting of the Security Council.
The Declaration of the Day
« “The human rights situation has regularly deteriorated, constituting a seismic decline” – Mariana Katzarova »
The human rights situation in Russia has worsened since the start of the war in Ukraine, said the UN special rapporteur, notably referring to the use of torture and the participation of health professionals in abuse.
Mariana Katzarova stressed that the Russian authorities have made a systematic repression of criticisms since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. During this period, “the Russian authorities intensified their use of criminal proceedings, long prison terms, intimidation, torture and ill -treatment to silence the opposition to the war.”
Mariana Katzarova, who was appointed by the Council in 2023, noted that the Russian official narrative presented “the legitimate exercise of human rights as” existential threats to security “and described these people as” state enemies “. »»
The figure of the day
23 (- 1). Twenty-two countries participated on Saturday evening in the intervivor, a musical competition relaunched by Russia to promote “traditional values” and compete with Eurovision with values deemed “decadent”. Twenty-three countries were supposed to participate but Vassy (Vasiliki Karagiorgos), Australian singer of electronic music and pop which was to represent the United States, had to withdraw at the last moment. The organizers mentioned “unprecedented political pressures from the Australian government” exerted on the singer.
Born in the Soviet era and resettled this year on the orders of Vladimir Putin, the competition was won by Vietnam. The Russian Shaman, an emblematic figure of patriotic concerts, presented a lyrical song, before announcing that he asked the jury not to take into account his participation. “Hospitality is an inalienable part of the Russian soul, and I understand that, according to the law of hospitality, I have no right to be among the contenders for victory,” he said.
The trend
Donald Trump assured that the United States would participate in the defense of Poland and the Baltic countries if Russia intensified its military activity in the region, two days after the incursion of Russian planes in Estonia.
To the question of a journalist asking him if he would help defend these four NATO member countries if Russia still accelerated his actions in the region, the American president replied “Yes, I would, I would do it”.
