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Articles from the February 28, 2022 edition


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  • Russia Shells Apartment Buildings in Kharkiv as Russia and Ukraine talk Peace in Belarus

    David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer|Feb 28, 2022

    As peace talks began in Belarus, the Russian campaign to subdue Ukraine's second largest city intensified. Video emerged of Russian forces shelling the car parking lot immediately in front of a large residential building in Kharkiv. Other social media reports say dozens of civilians are dead. In some cases, their bodies are in the streets for all to see. In fairness to the Russian Army, note that many civilians have taken up arms against Russians, making them legitimate military targets. One...

  • 100 Families Apply for SM Program Prioritizing Housing for Historically Displaced Households

    Jack Simon, Observer Staff Writer|Feb 28, 2022

    More than 100 families have applied to a pilot program that gives priority on Santa Monica's affordable housing waitlist to the households who were displaced by the Civic Auditorium or I-10 Freeway projects in the 1950s and 1960s, civic officials announced this week. The new Below Housing Market program – whose enrollment deadline ended on February 22 – will provide priority in city-funded housing and inclusionary housing for up to 100 households or descendants of households who were dis...

  • Reportedly 5,000 Russian contract servicemen rioted in the #Russian city of Belgorod and refused to go to fight in #Ukraine, reports Obozrevatel.

    Feb 28, 2022

    The Observer can't independently confirm this story, but https://www.obozrevatel.com/ is generally considered a reliable, not Ukraine government website. A mutiny among Russian soldiers or mercenaries would be major news, if true. "It seems that something has begun to be suspected in Russian Belgorod. As it became known to OBOZREVATEL, a real riot among servicemen of the Russian Federation took place in the Belgorod region, which borders Kharkiv, Lugansk, Sumy regions. About 5,000 contractors, w...

  • Los Angeles County Allows Masks To Come Off on Friday, but Only for the Vaccinated

    Alyssa Erdley, Observer Staff|Feb 28, 2022

    February 23, 2022 - Los Angeles County Health Department officials today announced they would allow establishments that verify vaccination status or require negative PCR tests of the unvaccinated to have customers and workers remove their masks indoors. Masks have been required at all indoor locations since March of 2020, except for a brief period last spring after the vaccines became available to the general public. Then vaccines proved to be less effective at preventing infection than...

  • Russian Government's main English language Website, RT.COM, is apparently Down

    David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer|Feb 28, 2022
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    I can't say if it was western sanctions or equipment failure or hacking or something else. But RT.COM is down today. When one tries to pull up the home page, one receives the following error message: "403 - Forbidden . That's an error. Client does not have access rights to the content so server is rejecting to give proper response. That's all we know." The E.U. had announced that it would block Russian government websites "that spread disinformation," such as RT.com. I am located in the United...