That day when war at last was brought to end…

With this poem by Aleksandr Tvardovsky, we congratulate the veterans of the Great Patriotic War, and the servicemen of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Russian Federation, and all the people of the world with the upcoming Day of the Great Victory over fascism. Aleksandr Tvardovsky was a famous Soviet poet and writer. During the Great Patriotic War, he served as a war correspondent. His poems about the Great Patriotic War are deeply lyrical, and, at the same time, passionate. These poems, glorifying the heroic deeds of ordinary Soviet soldiers and the Red Army as a whole, have an unbelievable power to create a link between the dead and the living, between the generations, and to exhort the people to struggle for their ideas and ideals.

That day when war at last was brought to end,
And all the barrels shot for celebration
There was one minute in that hour that led
Our souls to deep and profound meditation…

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The Third Congress of the All-Russian Parents’ Resistance: Overview

This is the translation of the series of the presentations and the resolution of the Third Congress of the All-Russian Parents’ Resistance (the ARPR) organization. The Third Congress titled “The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It” was held in Moscow on April 15th. Delegates from 64 regional offices arrived at the event. Members of The Federation Council and State Duma also participated, along with ombudsmen for children’s rights from a number of regions, clergy from various denominations, family and children’s experts that work in science, the arts, and education, from other parental organizations.

Participants gathered to discuss paramount social and political questions. For example, an alternative report from the RVS organization to the President of Russia with an analysis of child protection services’ practices of removing children from families was presented during the Congress together with a strategic report on the political situation in Russia by Sergey Kurginyan, the leader of the “Essence of Time” movement.

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