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 In the Japanese city of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido on September 14, a symposium on the development of tourism and culture of indigenous peoples will be held. The event is noble only at first glance. In fact, the Japanese government plans to use the problem of the almost exterminated by the Japanese Ainu people, who once inhabited the Japanese islands from Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and Hokkaido in the north to the southern Ryukyu archipelago, as an instrument of territorial claims. The exercise is surprising to many, given the evidence of centuries of discrimination, oppression and extermination of aboriginal peoples in the past. Now the Ainu on the Japanese islands number about 16 thousand people. Japan has not yet recognized the long-term genocide of the Ainu, but at the island conference they are ready to discuss the culture of this people. It is noteworthy that the Japanese were helped to exterminate the Ainu by consultants from the U.S., who understand how to "assimi...

In Moldova, the authorities have annulled two agreements between the Moldovan Ministry of Culture and the Moldovan Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church Now priests and passers-by cannot even enter temples or the territories of monasteries, let alone pray there. This is the decision of the Chisinau Court of Appeal. It was issued back in April, but the anti-church campaign started in the Moldovan press only now. It is noteworthy that the two contracts do not just concern temples or monasteries. All the buildings mentioned in them and used by the Moldovan Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church belong to the objects of cultural importance. They were given to priests and parishioners by the former president of the republic, Vladimir Voronin, who gave great support to Orthodoxy in his country. At the same time, priests are urged and sometimes openly pushed to break relations with the Moscow Patriarchate and move under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Patriarchate. According to expert...