Moscow’s unilaterally declared cease-fire came to an end after no sign of a pause in fighting in the 36 hours that it was apparently in place. Both sides traded blame for the ongoing shelling, which continued early Sunday and threatened to mar Orthodox Christmas celebrations on both sides. Ukraine had not agreed to the supposed truce, viewing it as a ploy for Russian forces to regroup.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
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“There is tons of censorship: what you can’t talk about, joke about, what songs you can’t sing or whose tracks you can’t play in order not to attract unwanted attention from the authorities,” Laura, a 21-year-old drag artist, told The Washington Post’s Mary Ilyushina and Mary Gelman.
“Some clubs are dropping drag acts. But I’d say censorship is what worries me the most. Before this law, there was freedom of speech. Now, for example, if there are a couple of men or a couple of women sitting in the audience, we can’t joke on any sexual topics because this would already qualify as ‘gay propaganda.’ It feels like we are all gathered at a birthday party for a 70-year-old grandma and we can’t take a step outside of what’s allowed.”
