![]() ![]() The former Nato secretary-general added: 'In May of 2002 when I chaired the Nato-Russia summit with President Putin as an equal member around that table I thought that finally I had exorcised the ghosts of 1968. Meanwhile, peers heard that the Russian people 'don't deserve' President Vladimir Putin as their leader.Īs the Lords were updated on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Labour's Lord Robertson of Port Ellen said: 'I am sure I wasn't the only one who woke up this morning to listen to the news who wasn't reminded of that day, that similar day in 1968, when we woke up to hear the news that Soviet tanks had crushed out the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. Litvinovich called on Russians earlier to gather in protest in various Russian cities on Thursday evening. She confirmed her detention separately in a message to Reuters. 'I was detained on my way out of the house,' Marina Litvinovich, the Moscow-based activist, wrote on Telegram. ![]() Earlier, a Russian opposition activist who called for anti-war protests told Reuters that she had been detained by police. ![]()
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