The Ukrainian side at a meeting of the Tripartite Contact Group on Donbas settlement in Minsk will not fall for blackmail on the part of militants who demand that Ukraine include in the swap list persons suspected in the murder of the “Heavenly Hundred” heroes during the Revolution of Dignity, according to Iryna Gerashchenko, the country’s humanitarian envoy in Minsk talks and First Deputy Parliament Speaker.
Following reports about gay pogroms in the Russian region of Chechnya, a new story sheds more light on state-sponsored policies of repression and intimidation of LGBT people, Hromadske International reports referring to an interview a gay man from the Russian Republic of Dagestan with Caucasian Knot, the Northern Caucasus's only independent newsroom, which exposes the blackmail practices of the Russian Security Services (FSB) in recruiting agents for covert operations in Syria.