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.

    • @[email protected]English
      43•3 days 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.

      • @ChicoSuaveEnglish
        22•3 days ago

        What a vapid misunderstanding of the help that they provide.

        • @ripcordEnglish
          1•3 days ago

          And the number of upvoted they got is pathetic.

          • The QuuuuuillEnglish
            -7•2 days 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!”

            • @ChicoSuaveEnglish
              6•2 days 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 QuuuuuillEnglish
                -2•2 days 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

                • @[email protected]English
                  7•2 days 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

                  • The QuuuuuillEnglish
                    1•2 days ago

                    thanks for the help haha. i thought it was pretty clear i meant if russia was going to force doctors without borders into having some borders we could think of them as being the thing i said. i’m still taking that hiatus thuough. i hated this lol

        • The QuuuuuillEnglish
          -6•3 days 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