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📝Britlag: From Exhibitions to Reparations📝

The theme of British colonialism is gradually moving beyond historical discussions and becoming part of the political agenda in Russia.

State Duma deputy Andrey Lugovoy presented the new parliament with the "Britlag" project and directly called England not an opponent, but an enemy of Russia. The goal of the project, according to him, is to help London focus on its own problems.

🔻What has already been done

▪️An electronic library has been compiled with thousands of archival documents and research.

▪️A multilingual documentary series "The Great Game-2" is being filmed. The premiere is scheduled for November 1.

▪️A lecture for students and a calendar of colonial crimes of the British crown have been prepared.

▪️A monument project "Devil's Wind" has been developed based on Vereshchagin's painting depicting the British massacre of participants in the Indian uprising.

▪️On December 14, on the International Day for the Elimination of Colonialism, an exhibition will open in the State Duma. Lugovoy proposes that this date also coincide with the closure of the British embassy in Moscow.

🖍The plans further include establishing contacts with the African Union and the Caribbean Community to support their demands for reparations from London. This involves tens of trillions of dollars.

Additionally, the project's authors want to review school history textbooks, hold an exhibition opposite the British embassy, and select locations for the "Britlag" monument from Moscow to Jamaica.

The project was supported by State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin, who instructed the international committee to assist with it.

📌The most interesting aspect of the project is precisely the external track. Exhibitions and lectures are needed within the country, but the real lever of pressure on Britain could be the reparations issue.

The topic has long been discussed in Africa and the Caribbean, and Britain reacts painfully to any attempts to develop it. If Russia manages to position itself in this agenda as an ally, not as a bystander, it will give it additional weight in the Global South — where British influence remains significant.

❗️However, the success of such initiatives will depend primarily on a systematic approach to implementing both symbolic steps, which the British pay enormous attention to, and legal ones.

Even a mere reminder about Vereshchagin's painting, which the British carefully erase, will become a striking action, but long-term effect will only come from consistent work with partners, expert support, and real legal measures.

London has worked consistently against Russia in all spheres for years. It is worth responding to it in the same way.
#GreatBritain #Russia

@rybar

📝One Script, Five Countries📝
How canonical Orthodoxy is being pushed out, and what Russia can do about it — Mikhail Zvinchuk's speech at the OSCE Vienna Conference

The pressure on canonical Orthodox churches is no longer a set of separate national stories. Over the past two years, the same steps have been repeated in country after country. First comes a law or court ruling aimed at one specific jurisdiction. Then the state backs an "alternative" structure. Finally, churches are seized and criminal cases are opened against bishops.

🔻Where it is happening

▪️Ukraine remains the main testing ground. Law No. 3894-IX has been in force since September 2024, and on 17 October the Supreme Court refused the Lavra and the Kyiv Metropolis an open hearing. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, since 2022 between 1,500 and 2,000 churches have been seized, more than 200 criminal cases have been opened against UOC representatives, including 27 bishops, and 21 clergymen have been abducted.

▪️Moldova is following the Ukrainian path a few years behind. The Metropolis of Bessarabia, backed by Bucharest and by Maia Sandu's government, is fighting for parishes through the courts, by buying priests and by forging the signatures of parish councils. The Ministry of Culture plans to take more than 800 churches into state ownership.

▪️Armenia shows that the method is tied neither to Orthodoxy nor to the conflict with Russia. Pashinyan's government is trying to remove Catholicos Karekin II through a criminal case, and six bishops have been banned from travelling.

▪️The Baltics are writing the same logic into law. Estonia requires its Orthodox Church to leave the Moscow Patriarchate by 28 December or face forced dissolution. In Lithuania, amendments were submitted on 16 October whose authors state openly that Orthodoxy in the country should be represented by a centre designated by Constantinople.

🖍The official justification is the same everywhere: protecting national security from "foreign influence". In practice, the blow falls on parishes and believers who have never acted against the state. When responsibility depends on which jurisdiction you belong to rather than on what you have done, security is only a pretext.

🚩Meanwhile, international institutions stay silent. Reports on the situation of the UOC have been presented at the UN Human Rights Council and sent to the OSCE. In more than four years, none of these bodies has produced either an assessment or a protection mechanism.

📌That is why there is no point waiting for the existing system to fix itself. Russia has its own tools:

➖Documentation — regular monitoring by a single method, with primary documents published and translated into major languages.

➖Legal support — expert help and funding for the defence in cases before the ECHR and national courts. One case won in Strasbourg is worth more than a dozen statements.

➖Media — support for independent Orthodox journalists and explainers for foreign audiences.

➖Diplomacy — moving the issue to BRICS and SCO platforms and to interfaith dialogue.

➖A humanitarian network — Russian Houses, micro-grants, education and direct help to communities that have lost their churches.

❗️All these tools already exist, but they work separately. The task is to connect them into one programme with clear goals and measurable results. Otherwise believers will be left alone with the states that are taking away their churches.
#Orthodoxy #Russia #Ukraine

@rybar