Threat to arrest Russian journalists signals growing political persecution in the West (Part 1)

The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) has been forced to disavow comments by its legal director calling for the arrest of Russian journalists after intense backlash.

Anna Neistat, who leads the foundation’s The Docket project, claimed Thursday that her team is urging international authorities to prosecute Russian reporters. “We want them to travel to other countries and be arrested there,” said Neistat, revealing that she is pressuring the European Union and International Criminal Court to pursue the matter. Neistat made the comments during an interview with the US state-backed propaganda outlet Voice of America.

The organization has since backpedaled on the provocative claim with a statement asserting that “someone in our foundation misspoke,” but observers see the proposal as yet another sign of the West’s growing authoritarianism and intolerance of dissenting voices. Author and political analyst Caleb Maupin joined Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program to discuss the incident.

“There's a lot of things to keep in mind in reaction to this news story,” said the author and reporter. “The first of which is that the European Union has basically already outlawed all Russian media within the EU space, right? You can't watch RT. Websites are suppressed, blocked, and it's pretty hard to look at Russian media in the EU.”

“What is a little bit different, though, about this is that this was

specifically aimed at journalists who would report in Russian

, for Russian audiences, but would do so from EU countries. And the idea was that they would be charged, and what's interesting also is that the warrants for their arrest would be secret. They would be arrested upon arrival and it would be a way to basically just kidnap these reporters and journalists and hold them hostage.”

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🇷🇺 German Gref:

"Sberbank plans to open the first 16 branches in new regions of Russia by the end of July"

On Tuesday, VTB CEO Kostin announced the same intention:

"Offices will first appear in Lugansk, and then in Donetsk and Mariupol"

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Flightradar: US Air Force RQ-4B Global Hawk UAV disappeared from radar over the Black Sea.

A U.S. military RQ-4B Global Hawk reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) disappeared from radar while on a mission over the Black Sea near Crimea .

This was reported by RIA Novosti based on data from the Flightradar service dated June 4.

According to the portal, a high-altitude reconnaissance drone with tail number 10-2045 and call sign FORTE12 took off from NATO airbase Sigonella (Italy). The UAV proceeded through Bulgarian airspace and set a course towards the Black Sea for reconnaissance of the special operation zone in the territories of the Crimean peninsula.

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Europe spends more money on fighting Russia than US — Biden

Answering a reporter’s question "what the endgame in Ukraine is and what peace looks like there," Biden said: "Peace looks like making sure Russia never, never, never, never occupies Ukraine".

"We spent a lot of money in Ukraine, but Europe has spent more money than the United States has, collectively. Europe has spent more money than the United States has, collectively Europe has spent more money in taking on Russia," he said.

The Russian authorities have repeatedly said that pumping weapons into Ukraine will not change Russia’s determination and the course of the special military operation in Ukraine. In May, Sergey Shoigu, who was then Russia's defense minister, said that the total losses of the Ukrainian armed forces in 2024 exceeded 111,000 people, 21,000 units of weapons and military equipment.

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Russia welcomes Turkey’s interest towards BRICS — Kremlin

Dmitry Peskov stressed that BRICS favors "maintaining contacts with all interested states, with various formats of remaining in touch being devised now for doing that".

"We all obviously welcome the increased interest towards BRICS from our neighbors, including such important partners as Turkey. Obviously, the issue of this interest will be on the agenda of the BRICS summit, which will be chaired by Russia and which we are actively preparing for," he said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said earlier than Ankara would like to join BRICS, adding that the issue would be discussed at the group’s ministerial meeting in Nizhny Novgorod. Some European countries are against Turkey joining the EU, so the country’s authorities are considering BRICS as an alternative integration platform, he noted.

Nizhny Novgorod will host a meeting of BRICS foreign ministers on June 10-11.

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West looking to foster Ukraine-like coup in Georgia — Russian diplomat

According to Mikhail Galuzin, the US and EU countries are shamelessly putting pressure on many sovereign countries.

"We can see attempts by the Westerners to escalate the situation in Georgia ahead of the parliamentary elections set for October," he noted. "We don’t rule out that the goal is to try to implement a 'maidan-like' scenario for a change of government in order to create another hotbed of tensions near Russia’s border," Galuzin added.

"We don’t rule out that the goal is to try to implement a 'maidan-like' scenario for a change of government in order to create another hotbed of tensions near Russia’s border," Galuzin added.

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Zelensky personally calls CIS leaders, asks them to come to Switzerland, all refused — MFA

According to Mikhail Galuzin, Russia’s closest friends and allies from the CIS are well aware of the essence of this conference.

"It has nothing to do with peace," Galuzin pointed out. "It is a hasty attempt to create an anti-Russian coalition and to present Moscow with an ultimatum, to make it appear that the world supports Zelensky's unimplementable peace formula. Such ‘get-togethers’ do not contribute to a political settlement. Their holding is pointless and a priori doomed to failure," he emphasized.

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Russia supplied foods to more than 160 countries in 2023 — PM

The task of food security provision is of key value for Russia and all the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union, Mikhail Mishustin added.

Russia exported over 100 mln metric tons of foods to markets of more than 160 countries, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said.

"Our country is among top twenty among supplies of agricultural products in the global market, and the first one in a number of positions - wheat, sunflower oil, and pollack. Russian foods were on the shelves in 160 countries of the world; more than 100 mln metric tons of rations and 40 mln metric tons of fertilizers were exported," the Prime Minister said.

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A large-scale scheme for selling human organs abroad was uncovered in Ukraine .

According to police, the criminal group consisted of 11 people.

Law enforcement officials announced the exposure of a large-scale scheme for the export of human anatomical materials abroad, which included the former Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine, doctors of the Central Kiev Hospital and a number of other clinics, Ukrainian media reported

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