Russia: Anime Banned as Child Pornography

MOSCOW – Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications has banned the distribution of the Japanese “hentai” cartoons. Reason for banning are 13 episodes published on the Russian social network Vkontakte, Voice of Russia reported. Hentai is a genre of the Japanese animation (anime) which as basic elements contain erotic or pornographic scenes. First complaint on the … Read more

Dacic: Culmination of the political madness in Croatia

BELGRADE – Today’s statements by war criminal Branimir Glavas are a “culmination of the political madness in Croatia,” Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said Thursday. Glavas, a man convicted for murders of Serb civilians, a man who is glorifying the Nazi Ustasha Independent State of Croatia, its leader Ante Pavelic and Roman Catholic … Read more

India, Japan Plan To Build Undersea ‘Hydrophones’ Wall

India and Japan plan to install an underwater wall of microphones in the Indian Ocean to track movements of the Chinese submarines. Abhijit Singh, a former officer of the Indian Navy who heads New Delhi-based think-tank Maritime Security Initiative at Observer Research Foundation (ORF), has said that India and Japan are ready to take their … Read more

ICTY Exonerates Slobodan Milosevic for War Crimes

BELGRADE – The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague has determined that the late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was not responsible for war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. In a stunning ruling, the trial chamber that convicted former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic of war crimes and sentenced him … Read more