Doctors Without Borders says it has closed its operations in Russia after 32 years. The medical aid group cited a Justice Ministry letter saying the group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations.

Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday it has closed its operations in Russia after 32 years, citing a Justice Ministry letter that said the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations.

    • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.caEnglish
      45·
      3 months ago

      You don’t even have to read the article. OP put it right there in the post.

      the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations.

      Russia was getting ready to outlaw them. It would have been a danger for them to keep personnel in the country, leaving them exposed to being kidnapped and used as currency for prisoner exchanges.

      There’s a chance you’re joking but I know for a fact there are people here who will take this seriously.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          how is providing medical aid to people being tortured in our global system of suffering not

          1. anti-colonial
          2. the very most important thing anyone could be doing?

          like i have criticisms about how they tend to attract white knight savior types, but russia making their operations harder is pretty clearly evil. i’m open to changing my stance that what they do is important, but i can’t do that if all i get is downvotes and called vapid

          • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            I got 4 upvotes and 23 downvotes. I’m pretty sure it’s pretty clear y’all have the prevailing worldview. Furthermore, I just… Don’t know what it is? I just know you think I’m vapid, and I don’t really know where I’m supposed to start digging into making myself better because I’ve received literally zero constructive feedback. Just a bunch of “Look at what a vapid idiot! Haha!”

            • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              3 months ago

              You’re not worth putting the effort into making a plan for recovery. You are here to upset folks and we’re not falling for it. Hopefully you learn something.

              • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                lmao what? no i definitely am not trying to upset folks. i don’t even actually know how “doctors without borders have an incredibly important mission to humanity, and a shared goal of reducing suffering” is upsetting. in fact, despite the fact that i should know better, this thread has gotten me really upset because resisting collonialism is so important and what doctors without borders is so important, and now i’m finding out that the perception is that i just want to upset people?

                i really mean this: i feel really disoriented, misunderstood, and hurt. i think i’m gonna go on a hiatus for a while because if this is what lemmy is gonna do to my mental space i don’t want it in my life

                • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.caEnglish
                  7·
                  3 months ago

                  it’s because people are misunderstanding your joke as saying “they should try not being colonialists” (pretty hard to read it as anything else tbh), and you’re misunderstanding the backlash as people shitting on dwb when it’s literally the opposite

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    Because Russia will kidnap the doctors from western countries and claim they’re spies hoping for a trade off for some of their legitimately war lord and assassin prisoners held in the west

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      My first thought that they would be drafted and sent to the front lines as medics, but that would assuming too much planning and compassion of Russia.

  • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    Is russias medical infrastructure so poor that they need this kind of assistance? I could guess maybe their war is stretching resources so thin. But this says 32 years they’ve been there. That’s like almost as far back as the end of the USSR.

    I wonder if they had been assisting in treating soldiers wounded in this war.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      25·
      3 months ago

      Russia removed them from their list of foreign NGOs. That puts their personnel directly at risk. They didn’t really have much of a choice.