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WORLD NEWS Friday 24 March 2023
Russia’s security chief blasts West, dangles nuclear threats

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV been torn to pieces with-
Associated Press out them.” Medvedev also
MOSCOW (AP) — A top Rus- challenged Ukraine’s sov-
sian security official warned ereignty in comments that
Thursday about the rising could reflect Moscow’s
threat of a nuclear war plans to extend its gains.
and blasted a German The soft-spoken and mild-
minister for threatening Rus- mannered Medvedev,
sian President Vladimir Putin who served as Russia’s
with arrest, saying that such president from 2008 to 2012
action would amount to a when term limits forced
declaration of war and trig- Putin to shift into the prime
ger a Russian strike on Ger- minister’s post, was widely
many. seen by Western officials as
Dmitry Medvedev, the more liberal than his men-
deputy secretary of Russia’s tor. Many in the West ex-
Security Council chaired by pected Medvedev to win
Putin, said in video remarks a second term and further
to reporters that Russia’s re- soften the Kremlin’s poli-
lations with the West have cies, but he stepped down
hit an all-time bottom. to allow Putin to reclaim the
Asked whether the threat presidency in what Krem-
of a nuclear conflict has lin critics denounced as a
eased, Medvedev re- Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and the head of the United Russia party Dmitry cynical manipulation.
sponded: “No, it hasn’t Medvedev arrives to attend the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Since Putin sent troops
decreased, it has grown. Xi Jinping at The Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. into Ukraine more than a
Associated Press
Every day when they pro- year ago, Medvedev, a
vide Ukraine with foreign hope. terly strained ties between of a nuclear power visits the law faculty graduate, has
weapons brings the nucle- In Thursday’s comments, Russia and the West. territory of Germany and emerged as one of the
ar apocalypse closer.” the 57-year-old Medvedev “Our relations with the West is arrested,” Medvedev most hawkish Russian offi-
He has issued a barrage of denounced the Interna- are already worse than said, adding that it would cials, regularly issuing blus-
such strongly-worded state- tional Criminal Court’s de- they have ever been in his- amount to a declaration of tery remarks that combine
ments in the past, blasting cision to issue an arrest war- tory,” he said. war against Russia. “In this Latin mottos and legal ex-
the U.S. and its NATO allies rant for Putin on charges Medvedev specifically case, our assets will fly to hit pressions with four-letter
for what he described as of alleged involvement in blasted German Justice the Bundestag, the chan- words, and sound much
their efforts to break up and abductions of thousands of Minister Marco Buschmann, cellor’s office and so on.” tougher than those issued
destroy Russia. It’s been a children from Ukraine as le- who said last week that Pu- He noted that Russia’s nu- by old-time Kremlin hard-
drastic metamorphosis for gally null and void. He not- tin would be arrested on clear forces have provided liners. Observers have inter-
the gentle-looking politi- ed that the move added the ICC’s warrant if he visits a strong deterrent amid the preted Medvedev’s rheto-
cian, who once was hailed to a “colossal negative po- Germany. fighting in Ukraine, add- ric as an apparent attempt
by the West as a liberal tential” in the already bit- “Let’s imagine ... the leader ing that “we would have to curry favor with Putin.q

Bones kept by former eugenics institute

buried in Berlin

By GEIR MOULSON operated from 1927 until been among those the
Associated Press 1945. bones belonged to includ-
BERLIN (AP) — Thousands The university said that the ing Jews, Sinti, Roma and
of bone fragments, which recovered fragments are people with physical and
may include the remains of from “victims of crime con- mental disabilities killed by
victims of Nazi crimes, were texts” that could include the Nazis, as well as the
buried Thursday after they colonial-era events and Herero people of Namibia,
were found on a Berlin uni- Nazi crimes. Researchers many of whom were killed
versity campus where an determined that the bones in a colonial-era massa-
institute for anthropology belonged to people of all cre agreed that further re-
and eugenics was once lo- age groups, male and fe- search shouldn’t be carried Caskets containing bones found on the grounds of the Freie
cated. male. out. They said the bones Universitat, Free University are lowered into the ground for
Some 16,000 fragments But the university said that, should be buried “without burial, at the Waldfriedhof in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March
were found on the cam- following non-invasive ex- religious appropriation or 23, 2023.
pus of the Free University in aminations of the frag- eurocentric symbolism,” Associated Press
excavations that started in ments and historical re- the university said. caskets were lowered into Central Council of Jews,
2015 after human and ani- search. it wasn’t possible The public burial with about the ground by pallbearers. German news agency dpa
mal bones were discovered to identify individual victims 230 guests took place “The inhuman practice of reported.
during restoration work. The or to link the finds to spe- Thursday at the Waldfried- research racism foresaw no “Today we are taking nu-
site was once home to the cific colonized regions or to hof cemetery in the Berlin burial for the remains and merous lives whose voices
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of “clear Nazi contexts.” suburb of Dahlem, near threw them in pits,” said and biographies were ex-
Anthropology, Human He- Organizations represent- the site where the remains Daniel Botmann, a repre- tinguished to their last rest-
redity and Eugenics, which ing groups that may have were found. Five simple sentative of Germany’s ing place.”q