In April 2022, a 12-year-old Russian girl named Masha Moskalyova was told in art class to draw a picture supporting russian troops in Ukraine.
Instead, she drew a Ukrainian mother protecting her child as russian missiles flew toward them.
On the Ukrainian flag she wrote, “Glory to Ukraine.” On the russian flag: “No to war. No to Putin.”
Her school reported her to the authorities.
Police began investigating her father, Alexei Moskalyov, a single father who had raised Masha largely on his own. They searched his social media and discovered posts criticizing russia’s invasion and documenting russian atrocities in Bucha.
In December 2022, around a dozen russian security officers raided their home. They ransacked it, seized their computers, phones, and savings.
Alexei later said that during interrogations, officers beat him and slammed his head against the wall and floor. They blasted the russian national anthem at full volume while questioning him.
Eventually, the regime charged him with repeatedly “discrediting” the russian military because of his anti-war social-media posts.
Masha was taken away from him and placed in a state “social rehabilitation” center.
Alexei was sentenced to two years in a penal colony.
He later described horrific conditions there: a tiny punishment cell roughly two meters long, freezing temperatures, rats crawling out of the sewer, and days when he was forced to stand for as long as 16 hours because the bunk was locked against the wall.
Meanwhile, his daughter wrote to him.
“Dad, don’t give up.”
“You are my hero.”
They were separated for more than a year and a half.
On October 15, 2024, Alexei finally walked out of prison.
Masha was waiting for him.
Five days later, they fled russia.
They first escaped to Armenia and applied for a German humanitarian visa. After waiting for more than a year, their case stalled when Germany suspended the relevant humanitarian admission program.
Then France stepped in.
In March 2026, Masha and Alexei received French humanitarian visas and flew to Paris.
And on July 17, 2026, France granted them political asylum.
Today, Masha is drawing again and hopes to pursue art. She also writes and has spoken out in support of russian political prisoners.
When asked whether, knowing everything that happened afterward, she would still have made that drawing, Masha said she would.
“One only lives once.”
One drawing.
A child saying no to war.
And for that, the russian state destroyed their home, separated a father from his daughter, imprisoned him, and drove them both into exile.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
Sources: Le Monde, Reuters, Euronews, Meduza, DW
This looks like a photograph. It's not. It's an oil painting made in 1883 by Peder Mørk Mønsted.
It's called The Woodland Glade. Sunlight pours down through a high forest canopy and scatters across the ground in a thousand shifting patches of gold and shadow, each one placed with a precision that hardly seems possible for a human hand.
In his own day Mønsted was celebrated for exactly this. He was admired enough to travel the world and, in 1893, to be received as a personal guest of King George I of Greece, a king who had himself been born a Danish prince, painting the royal family and the countryside there.
But Mønsted had two misfortunes: he painted landscapes rather than important people, and he did it just as the art world was falling out of love with this kind of realism, deciding that all that loving exactitude had had its day.
So his name slipped almost entirely out of art history. And yet his paintings never stopped being loved: they circulate endlessly online, reposted by people who fall for a sunlit forest and, most of the time, have no idea who made it. The man has been forgotten, but the light he captured never has. Leonardo da Vinci once said it best: "A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
Це не родинне дерево, це якийсь московитський розсадник
І вона пройшла всі спецперевірки?
Як і крадій Кириленко - вже три роки під слідством, а досі працює головою АКМУ, маючи брата в мгб днр
І не треба-син за тата не відповідає. У побуті- так. А на таких посадах під час війни?
📷 En Finlande, les enfants commencent l’école à l’âge de sept ans. Il n'y a pas d'urgence. Parce qu’ils y ont compris que l’enfance est sacrée et que l’apprentissage s’épanouit mieux lorsque son rythme naturel est respecté.
Le système éducatif finlandais est admiré dans le monde entier. Non pas à cause de ses examens, ni à cause de la pression, mais à cause de son approche humaine et équilibrée. Chaque cours dure 60 minutes, mais seulement 45 sont consacrées à l'étude. Les 15 autres sont réservés au repos, car on apprend aussi en jouant, en respirant et simplement en étant un enfant.
Du lundi au jeudi, la journée scolaire peut être prolongée jusqu'à huit heures, mais le vendredi, elle se termine à 13 heures. Et il n'y a pas de cours le samedi. Parce que l’éducation ne doit pas voler la vie.
En Finlande, tout est gratuit. Les familles ne paient pas pour les livres, les fournitures ou les appareils. Chaque élève reçoit une tablette avec tous ses textes au format numérique. Il n’y a pas de sacs à dos lourds, pas de frais cachés. Il n'y a pas non plus de faim en classe : tous les élèves reçoivent une nourriture illimitée, variée et saine, également gratuite.
Pour la Finlande, investir dans l’éducation signifie investir dans l’avenir. Et ils le font avec conviction. Ils savent qu’un peuple instruit est plus que productif : il est plus juste, plus sain et plus libre. L’égalité des chances n’est pas un slogan, c’est une politique d’État.
Alors que dans de nombreux endroits, l’école devient un fardeau, en Finlande elle reste ce qu’elle devrait être partout : une promesse d’avenir.
В Києві забороняють знімати порожні полиці у супермаркетах..
Звісно, немає фото порожніх полиць - отже, немає порожніх полиць!!))
З допомогою брехні - переможемо!
Це ж девіз Зеленського і Ко із першого ж дня при владі..
Professor Brian Cox explains what happens if you travel near the speed of light
At near-light speed, distance itself starts behaving strangely.
At CERN, protons run around a ring 27 kilometres in circumference at 99.9999999% the speed of light.
From the protons' point of view, that ring is not 27 kilometres.
It's about four metres.
Distance itself shrinks by a factor of seven thousand at that speed.
Now scale it up.
Build a spacecraft that fast and the gap to Andromeda collapses the same way. In principle you cross it in a minute.
The cost is on the return trip.
Come back to Earth to tell everyone what you found, and four million years have passed here.
Brian Cox: "getting to chat to everybody about what you found is forbidden by the structure of the universe"
You could explore the galaxy.
You just couldn't come back and tell everyone what you found.
🇮🇷 A televisão estatal iraniana transmitiu uma reunião do ministro das Relações Exteriores, Abbas Araghchi, com o lider Mojtaba Khamenei, mas o grande escândalo é que a reunião foi com uma foto de Mojtaba em uma caixa de papelão que voou devido ao vento do ventilador.
Одной минуты видео встречи Путина и Си достаточно, чтобы понять: в комнате слуга и хозяин.
Слуга почтительно и монотонно отчитывается. Старается не сбиться. Вальяжность, как при болтовне о косатках, испарилась.
Хозяин скучает, но снисходительно слушает.
День Зебабака:
- Вересень може багато чого змінити..
- А може не змінити..
- А може не багато..
- А може не вересень..
- А може не цей вересень..
- А може..
А може когось врешті змінити?
- А вы правда ебанутый наглухо?
- Да
- А скажите , что-нибудь на вашем наглухо-ебанутом
- Касатки караулят белых медведей, подкрадываются, потом кааааак прыгнут!!! И рвут их, как мелюзгу, поэтому мы проводим Специальную Военную Операцию!
В фірмі, де я працюю, стались дивні метаморфози: на 8 рік царювання коміка його палкі прихильники раптом зненавиділи клоуна: "Він за@бав своєю корупцією". Знадобилось для прозріння 7 рочків...