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Freedom Convoy arrives in Ottawa as Trudeau self-isolates at home

Despite several challenges along the way, including roads and highways closures, Freedom Convoy has successfully made it to Ottawa. On wheels and by foot, Canadian protesters flow to the capital center where the anti-mandate rally is scheduled to kick off tomorrow. The trucker protest started in the early morning of January 17th, shortly after the […]

Vera Sauchanka

01/28/2022

Belarus: a social media revolution clashes the fear

This is a developing story, check back for updates. Last updated on June 18, 2020 at 11:00 PM PST “The people and the government came to the roundtable. The people were holding the Constitution, and the government came in… the tank.” That’s how Belarusian independent journalist and blogger Tatyana Martynova described a myriad of pre-election […]

Vera Sauchanka

06/18/2020

Wife of a Belaruskali striker: “I just couldn’t tell my daughter that her Dad was beaten by the police.”

A mother of three children, with the youngest one only two years old, Katsiaryna Dziamkova never thought she would be left alone, without her husband. However, that is exactly what happened on one snowy, freezing afternoon on the last day of winter, when her husband Anton did not return home. He was among seven activists […]

Vera Sauchanka

04/01/2021

Solidarity Lines held across the globe in support of Belarus

This is a developing story, check back for updates. Last updated July 17 at 2:30 pm PST For the past few weeks, Belarusians of over 70 cities on five continents worldwide came out to peaceful protests against the repressions ahead of the upcoming presidential elections in Belarus. Amnesty International described the government’s brutal crackdowns and […]

Vera Sauchanka

07/10/2020

From a blogger to a political prisoner. The story of Ihar Losik

A 28-year-old journalist and blogger, Ihar Losik wasn’t supposed to be in prison. He was meant to keep covering news, spending time with his wife and daughter, and doing his part in building a better, brighter future. However, all of this would be in a parallel Universe. Not in Belarus.  Freedom of the press and […]

Vera Sauchanka

02/07/2021

“Free Navalny!” | San Francisco joined global anti-Putin rallies

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s opposition leader and prominent critic of Putin, was arrested on January 17, shortly after his flight landed in Moscow. Navalny spent five months in Germany undergoing treatment after poisoning with Novichok nerve agent, allegedly carried out by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied FSB’s involvement in […]

Vera Sauchanka

02/01/2021

Belarusians are united as one: Lukashenko must go

If you’ve never heard about Belarus before, it probably changed recently, as it made cover stories around the world this Monday. The country in the center of Europe, which has been ruled by “the last dictator” Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, has sent its message clearly: his time is up now. While all the Belarusian elections […]

Vera Sauchanka

08/18/2020

2020 Kia Telluride: when the market needs another painkiller

“Wow, that’s cool!” That’s exactly what you experience when you open the door for the first time. Very similar to what we saw with Kia Stinger where no one could expect so much for such a low price tag. Spoiler alert to other manufactures: Kia just nailed the mid-size SUV and you better get ready […]

Dennis Bindarau

05/26/2019

Your perfect day in Hawaii: 7 sights you shouldn’t miss

Growing up in a place where winter was a waste unless you had some quality sleigh time followed by frozen nose and ears, I remember the feeling I got when I first saw a picture of a tropical island. Blue ocean, sandy beach, and palm leaves softly whispering through the warm wind is something that […]

Vera Sauchanka

03/13/2020

Black Lives Matter Utah founder condemns violence, presenting police reform bill

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.”Martin Luther King Jr. BLM protests broke out in Salt Lake City on May 30 after the police officer Derek Chauvi murdered George Floyd. Chauvi and other officers arrived at the scene after a 911 call […]

Abby Doman

06/02/2020