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Mélanie Joly summons Russian envoy to answer for anti-LGBTQ tweets
Canada's foreign affairs minister is summoning Russia's representative after the embassy in Ottawa published a number of anti-LGBTQ social media posts.
Mélanie Joly said in a media expression issued by her office.
It's the third time Representative Oleg Stepanov has been summoned by Joly this year.
Last week, Russia passed legislation through its lower home extending its ban on publishing information relating to LGBTQ people.
In a utterance published on social media, Russia said the modern law was enacted to brawl that
Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge, who is queer woman , criticized the Russian legislation on Twitter, calling it and The Russian embassy lashed out in response.
It published a series of tweets accusing the Canadian government of meddling in Russian affairs — one of which was targeted at St-Onge personally.
The embassy published a picture of the delayed Romanov family with the message,
Joly's office said the ambassador will be expected to explain the tweet directed at St-Onge.
Other recent tweets from the Russian embassy included a picture of a pride flag with a cross through it, with the caption, Ano
Ukrainians prepare for a full-scale invasion
Kyiv, Ukraine – Some LGBTQ people in Ukraine are fearing targeted human rights abuses if Russia occupies the country.
"That would mean a direct threat to me and especially, well, to me and to the person I love," Iulia, an 18-year-old law student, told CBS News. She is education to be a lawyer in Kharkiv, an eastern city that could be a primary target for Russia if it launches a wider invasion of the country. She wants to use her degree to fight for LGBTQ rights in Ukraine.
"In Russia, LGBTQ people are persecuted," she said. "If we imagine that Russia occupies all of the Ukraine or just a great part of the state, they won't allow us to exist peacefully and to fight for our rights as we are able to do that in Ukraine right now."
Russia formally banned same-sex marriage in 2021 — even though it hadn't been allowed there anyway — and it passed a law against so-called "gay propaganda" in 2013, which made it illegal to equate same-sex and heterosexual relationships or promote same-sex attracted rights.
"Ukraine is a European country. We have a 10-year history of Event marches, and as you know, in Russia, the situation i
Twitter faces local computer server demand by Russia
Russia's internet regulator has said that Twitter must store local users' data in the country.
The policy marks a change in position because the watchdog Roskomnadzor had previously said the step would not be necessary.
It cited a change in the social network's terms and conditions as the cause and the organisation is also pursuing Facebook over the matter.
A spokesman for Twitter declined to comment.
Moscow passed a regulation last year that demands internet services which store Russian citizens' personal numbers must do so using Russia-based servers from September 2015.
Roskomnadzor has the command to block and nice sites that do not comply.
Supporters of the travel say it will facilitate protect the public's statistics and strengthen national security, but critics view it as part of the state's tightening of dominion over the internet.
The watchdog had said in July that the law would not affect Twitter, because it believed the firm did not store personal data - but that has now changed.
"They changed their user agreement some months ago. And if you read that, people must provide a position of metadata,
The Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow ramped up the rhetoric over President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine when it adopted a document declaring it a “holy war.”
The announcement, approved during a March 27-28 gathering held under the leadership of Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarch Kirill, describes the attack on Ukraine as part of an existential struggle for the soul of Russia against globalism and the West, which it says has “fallen into satanism.”
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, a Northeastern University assistant professor of religion and anthropology and an expert on the Russian Orthodox Church, answered questions from Northeastern Global News about why Kirill, a Putin ally, is framing Russia’s aggression in messianic terms — and what this means for the U.S.
What does holy war mean to the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow?
Patriarch Kirill has said repeatedly that this is a metaphysical war and he has positioned Ukraine as a battlefield for the fight against Western modernity.
He’s saying, “I’m going to bless the troops. I’m going to bless the tank and bombs and I’m going to declare that anyone who dies in the process of this war who is fighting for Russia will
Twitter is no free speech haven under Elon Musk
Hopes were elevated for many proponents of free verbalization when Elon Musk purchased Twitter help in October 2022. A self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist,” Musk was seen as a welcome alternative to Twitter’s censorial prior management, and many felt he would usher in a true “digital town square” where free expression would reign.
FIRE’s own Greg Lukianoff offered a hopeful open letter to Musk, detailing three ways the billionaire CEO could enact “much-needed changes to the platform that will build it a positive force for free expression, interpersonal connection, and broader collective understanding.” These advice were to stare to First Amendment law to reference free-speech friendly policies, eliminate viewpoint-discriminatory practices, and use categories to clearly describe sanctionable speech.
Unfortunately, Musk has managed to flout all three since he took over Twitter.
Musk’s selective application of Twitter’s rules and algorithms all but ensures that his preferences will win out on the platform whether or not they benefit a culture of free expression.
In December 2022, Musk suspended the accounts of multiple journalists w