Eurozapping: the trials broadcast on British television, an opponent sentenced in Russia and a patriotic stamp in Ukraine

A first in the UK. Thursday, July 28, British television cameras can now film the judgments of criminal courts, such as the one handed down for a 25-year-old man convicted of homicide. Open courtrooms to cameras to improve transparency: this is already the case United States since the highly publicized trial ofO.J. simpsons in the mid 1990s.

In Russia, Marina Ovsiannikovathe journalist who, last March, denounced the war in Ukraine using a sign during a live television news on a pro-Kremlin channel, was sentenced to pay a fine of 50,000 rubles, i.e. 800 euros. She was on trial for discrediting the army. In Russia, opponents of Vladimir Putin are silenced or imprisoned. They risk up to 15 years in prison for a simple evocation or criticism of the war in Ukraine. In Ukraine preciselya new stamp has been unveiled. It depicts a tractor towing a Russian tank. A patriotic image in these times of war, which appeals to Ukrainians.