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Russian father jailed for his daughter’s antiwar drawing is released

Alexei Moskalyov’s daughter Masha was waiting for him at the gates of the penal colony where he served a year and a half for “discrediting” the Russian army.  The case involving Alexei Moskalyov, shown here in March 2023, is a stark example of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime seeking to punish all opposition to the war. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images) By Robyn Dixon and Natalia Abbakumova,  The Washington Post , October 15, 2024 at 9:24 a.m. EDT;  article contains a video,  Alexei Moskalyov left prison Oct. 15 after serving 1.5 years for charges related to an antiwar drawing his daughter, Masha, made. (Video: Sota Vision) Outside a Russian prison gate and stained concrete  walls, a 14-year-old girl in a baggy beige sweater with her small dog on leash hugged her father, moments after his release. Tears filled Masha Moskalyova’s eyes as she clutched him tightly. The hug ended a family nightmare that began when, at age 12, just months after President Vladimir Putin ordered
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[Americana:] The Name for Boston’s Women’s Soccer Team

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Image/text from: The Wall Street Journal , Oct 15, which notes: "The name will be publicized through a marketing campaign themed 'Too Many Balls,' a reference to how men’s sports have historically dominated the city’s sports scene , with cameos from the likes of Boston-connected athletes Tom Brady, Jaylen Brown and David Ortiz."
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Zelensky's Victory Speech

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October 15, 2024 WEAPONS AND SECURITY BY STEPHEN BRYEN, OCT 15  via email Zelensky is going to give his "Victory" speech on October 16 to Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, but much of the speech will be secret. The secret part is about giving up territory to Russia. Verkhovna Rada Some parts will be open to the parliament and the public . He will again push for more weapons, especially ATACMS missiles, he will try and justify the Kursk operation that has already cost more than 20,000 lives and where Ukraine's army is being systematically pushed back; he will complain about North Korean troops in Ukraine, but not provide an iota of evidence there are any, and he will ask for NATO troops to come and help out.
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[Americana:] How will someone vote?

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Moments With The Book ·  I "[C]ollege graduates hold about three-quarters of the wealth in the US but account for only about 40% of the population." From: " Analysis: Education has become the biggest predictor of how someone will vote ," by  Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (Oct 14)
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Ukraine denounces Russia's reported execution of captured troops

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1 day ago  [JB - date not provided] Matt Murphy BBC News Reporting from  London Getty Images [no caption provided] Ukraine's human rights ombudsman has denounced the alleged execution of nine captured Ukrainian troops by Russian forces in the Kursk border region. Dmytro Lubinets said he had written to the United Nations and the Red Cross about the allegations, accusing Moscow of breaching "all the rules and customs of war". The intervention follows reporting by Ukrainian battlefield analysis site DeepState, which published drone footage purporting to show the dead troops who it said were drone operators. Officials in Russia have yet to comment on the allegations. Kyiv is believed to have deployed thousands of troops into the Russian border region since it launched its shock incursion earlier this summer.  The images published by DeepState showed the dead Ukrainian troops stripped to their underwear and lying face down in what appeared to be farmland in Kursk. The BBC cann
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Fighting Russia - and low morale - on Ukraine's ‘most dangerous front line’

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1 day ago [no date provided, but article appeared "one day ago," per info on the internet] Yogita Limaye BBC News , in Pokrovsk  [ JB:   contains an informative map; see below ] Imogen Anderson/BBC “We have not been able to stabilise the front,” says Oleksandr “This is the most dangerous of all front lines,” says Oleksandr, the head of a medical unit for the Ukrainian army's 25th Brigade. We are in the treatment room of a cramped makeshift field unit - the first point of treatment for injured soldiers. “The Russian Federation is pushing very hard. We have not been able to stabilise the front. Each time the front line moves, we also move.” We are close to Pokrovsk, a small mining city about 60km (37 miles) to the north-west of the regional capital, Donetsk. The medics tell us they recently treated 50 soldiers in one day - numbers rarely seen before during the course of this war. The casualties are brought in for treatment at this secret location after dusk, when there is
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