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Putin gained a rubber-stamp election
President Vladimir Putin yesterday prolonged his rule over Russia till 2030, utilizing a closely stage-managed election with no actual opposition to assert overwhelming public assist for his home dominance and his invasion of Ukraine.
Western governments condemned the election, and a few Russians tried to show the vote right into a protest by forming lengthy traces at polling stations at midday. Ukraine sought to solid its personal vote of types, firing a volley of exploding drones at Moscow and different targets.
But the Kremlin brushed these challenges apart and launched outcomes claiming that Putin had gained 87 p.c of the vote, an excellent greater quantity than within the 4 earlier elections through which he ran.
In a information convention after the voting, Putin commented for the primary time on the loss of life of the imprisoned opposition chief Aleksei Navalny, calling it an “unlucky incident.” (Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, waited in line for hours to vote in Berlin.)
The extent of the general public’s true assist for Putin was laborious to judge, with opposition candidates barred from operating — the three different candidates on the poll didn’t criticize Mr. Putin — and the work of unbiased ballot observers diminished to its lowest stage because the days of the Soviet Union.
Putin is ready to make use of his new six-year time period to additional cement his management of Russian politics and to press on with the battle in Ukraine. If he finishes the time period, he’ll turn into the longest-serving Russian chief since Catherine the Great within the 1700s.
“That’s one thing that Israel, the Israeli public, does by itself,” Netanyahu mentioned in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We’re not a banana republic.”
The remarks by Schumer, the Senate majority chief, had been a part of a scathing speech he gave final week, throughout which the New York Democrat additionally accused Netanyahu of placing his political survival earlier than the great of his nation. The speech was indicative of the rising hole between Israel and the U.S. on the battle in Gaza. President Biden praised the speech however stopped in need of endorsing Schumer’s name for a brand new election.
Netanyahu, in remarks to his authorities, vowed that the Israeli navy would invade Rafah, the place greater than one million Gazans have taken shelter. Displaced folks there are terrified by the prospect of a floor invasion.
Humanitarian disaster: New approaches for getting help into Gaza haven’t curtailed the starvation and malnutrition there, consultants mentioned.
Trump’s allies are profitable a battle over disinformation
After the riot on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, officers and social media corporations labored to rein within the lies that spurred the assault. Donald Trump and his allies launched into their very own coordinated effort to dam what they known as harmful censorship of conservatives, with monetary assist from conservative donors who’ve backed teams that promoted lies about voting in 2020.
That effort, little seen by most Americans, has weakened checks on disinformation on-line, doubtlessly bolstering Trump’s try to recapture the presidency.
U.S. elections: Trump once more described immigrants as “poisoning” America. President Biden’s re-election marketing campaign mentioned it had raised $53 million in February, which is anticipated to widen Democrats’ money benefit over Republicans.
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The seek for an ‘offensive’ silent movie
The 1927 silent comedy “The Callahans and the Murphys” depicted stereotypes of Irish Americans so noxious that it was yanked from circulation and is now thought of misplaced. That didn’t cease my colleague Dan Barry, who discovered concerning the movie whereas impulsively researching the actor Marie Dressler, from ultimately monitoring down a brief clip from the film, which one critic and historian described as “legendary.”
“There’s actually solely been a handful of movies that, as a substitute of merely being edited, had been pulled altogether as a result of they had been thought of offensive,” the historian mentioned.
You can watch that clip, which Barry present in an infinite storehouse run by the Library of Congress, and one other one found within the Irish Film Institute’s assortment, in his article.
P.S. Steven Erlanger, The Times’s chief diplomatic correspondent, compares the chief of HBO’s “The Regime” to autocrats he has coated.
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