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Most conversations about plastic pollution end once plastic breaks into tiny pieces. But that’s actually where one of the least understood parts of the problem begins.

As plastic degrades into microplastics and especially nanoplastics, it doesn’t just become “smaller trash.” Its physical and chemical properties change, allowing it to interact with living organisms and the environment in entirely different ways. This is why nanoplastics have become a rapidly growing area of scientific research.

Video summarizing a scientific report titled “Nanoplastics: A Systematic Risk Analysis for Human Health, Ecosystems, and the Environment.” According to the authors, the report reviews findings from 597 scientific publications and examines how micro- and nanoplastics affect cells, tissues, organisms, ecosystems, and the environment as interconnected systems.
Whether or not you agree with all of its conclusions, it’s an interesting overview of how researchers are approaching one of the newest frontiers in plastic pollution.
What do you think will be the biggest ecological impact of nanoplastics over the next few decades?
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Volunteers from the ALLATRA Civic Platform participated in CABXPO Chicago 2026, held on May 30–31, an international business expo that brought together entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, government representatives, and business leaders from around the world.

Throughout the event, volunteers engaged in conversations with attendees from a wide range of industries, exchanging ideas on innovation, international cooperation, and sustainable development. They also introduced the ALLATRA Global Research Center’s report, Nanoplastics: A Systematic Risk Analysis for Human Health, Ecosystems, and the Environment, highlighting the growing environmental and public health concerns associated with nanoplastic pollution.

CABXPO continues to serve as an important platform for building international partnerships and encouraging collaboration between the business, scientific, and civic sectors. ALLATRA Civic Platform volunteers expressed their appreciation to the CABXPO organizing team for hosting the event and extended special thanks to founder Gulshanbek Ravshanbek for fostering dialogue and strengthening international cooperation.
Read the full press release for additional details.

This article is a translation of the original publication, which can be found at the following link: https://drukarnia.com.ua/articles/vikrittya-rosiiskoyi-merezhi-vplivu-NCCsy

How “anti-cult activists” became a tool of Russian influence to incite discord and destabilize the work of European and Ukrainian intelligence agencies.
Why has their persecution of the international civic platform “ALLATRA” become one of the most telling examples of this scheme?

Attacks on synagogues and mosques as the key to the entire scheme: how Russian intelligence funded attacks on French places of worship

Serbian court rulings revealed that Russian intelligence funded the desecration of synagogues and mosques in France. The facts set forth in the court documents speak for themselves. Three Serbian citizens, arrested in late 2025 and brought to trial in Smederevo, confessed to participating in two planned waves of desecration in the Paris area.
The first occurred in May 2025, when three synagogues were doused with green paint—a color associated with Islam—during the Jewish Sabbath. The second occurred in September, when severed pig heads were placed in front of nine mosques in Paris and its suburbs. Both actions were intended to shock, humiliate, and stoke tensions between religious communities.
The Serbian court rulings clearly state that the group received “orders, instructions, and money” from “structures of the Russian Federation’s intelligence service.” The court noted that the goal was to “incite religious and national intolerance” and “destabilize the situation” in France and Germany. [1], [2]
Court documents regarding the attacks on religious sites in France clearly show that Russian intelligence agencies use religious hatred as a cheap and strategically precise tool for destabilizing Europe: to create religious unrest, force European security services to expand protection of potential targets, and divert counterintelligence resources away from countering Russian activities.
French intelligence obtained internal Kremlin documents indicating that the Russian presidential administration “directly approved” the desecration of Jewish monuments in May 2025. The French intelligence report states that “the [Russian] presidential administration seeks to heighten tensions between these two communities on [French] territory, using contentious debates to sow discord in French society and weaken national solidarity” [1].
Stirring up tension between the Jewish and Muslim communities, green paint on synagogues, pig heads at mosques, photographs as proof of work for a client—all of this is cheap to carry out and extremely costly for the state, which is forced to protect hundreds of potential targets.
Andrei Soldatov, an investigative journalist and expert on Russian intelligence, explained the logic behind such attacks: they force European security services to redirect resources, expand the list of sites requiring protection, and increase the overall costs of counterintelligence. The attacks do not necessarily have to be spectacular or even successful; they are intended to instill fear, uncertainty, and additional administrative pressure. According to Soldatov, this is a way to “raise the costs” for countries supporting Ukraine [1], [2].
Original: “It distracts counterintelligence resources from dealing with Russian activities while raising security costs in general—as a punishment for staying on the Ukrainian side in the war.”
Translation: “This diverts counterintelligence resources from combating Russian activities while simultaneously raising overall security costs—as a punishment for remaining on Ukraine’s side in the war” [1].
This phrase is the central key to the investigation. Russia does not merely launch missiles, conduct cyberattacks, and carry out hybrid operations. It forces democratic countries to expend energy and resources on fabricated internal conflicts.
• In one case, this involves the desecration of places of worship, which breeds fear, interfaith tension, and an additional burden on law enforcement agencies.
• In another, it involves inciting society against religious minorities and civic initiatives by labeling them “sects”: this stigma creates an image of an internal enemy, sows intolerance and division in society, and then this artificially created fear is used to promote norms and laws that benefit Russian influence, which, in turn, expand the scope of suspicion, give anti-cult “experts” access to government decision-making, and shift the focus of the security services from real channels of Russian influence to artificially created “internal threats.”
• In the third scenario, criminal and administrative cases, inspections, and searches are initiated, which divert law enforcement agencies from actual Russian agents and force the state to expend resources on fabricated threats and predetermined targets within society.
The anti-cult network serves as a ready-made personnel, ideological, and media infrastructure for such operations.
The Serbian connection makes this link particularly telling. One of the key figures in the case, Momčilo Gajić—the leader of the Serbian group that organized riots in France and Germany on the orders of Russian intelligence—is described in public records as a man closely associated with Serbian church circles; his closeness to Bishop Irinej Bulović of Bačka and to the inner circle of Porfirije (currently the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church) is also evident. It is precisely this Serbian church-anti-cult milieu that has for years operated in ideological alignment with the Russian anti-cult movement—led by Alexander Dvorkin (president of RACIRS) and Moscow Patriarchate priest Alexander Novopashin (vice president of RACIRS): joint conferences, shared platforms, and common rhetoric about “sects,” “destructive cults,” and “spiritual security.” (Details of this episode will be revealed later.)
* Alexander Dvorkin is a Russian “cult expert” and one of the key ideologues of the Russian anti-cult network. He is the founder of the St. Irenaeus of Lyons Center for Religious Studies, established in 1993 under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as the president of RACIRS—the Russian Association of Centers for the Study of Religions and Sects. Through RACIRS, the church- missionary structures of the Moscow Patriarchate, and international anti-cult platforms, Dvorkin built a network of influence in Russia, Ukraine, Europe, and beyond; From 2009 to 2021, he served as vice president of the European Federation of Centers for Research and Information on Sectarianism (FECRIS) and later remained in its leadership. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has criticized the Russian anti-cult movement led by Dvorkin as a factor exerting pressure on religious minorities and a threat to freedom of conscience.
* RACIRS—the Russian Association of Centers for the Study of Religions and Sects—was established in 2006 as a network of Russian anti-sectarian centers. Its president is Alexander Dvorkin, and its vice presidents are Archpriests Alexander Novopashin and Arseny Vilkov; the organizational and ideological core of the network is the Center of St. Irenaeus of Lyons. RACIRS unites and coordinates church-missionary, apologetic, and anti-sectarian structures associated with the dioceses of the Moscow Patriarchate, as well as centers and partner organizations outside Russia.
* Alexander Novopashin is a protopresbyter of the Russian Orthodox Church, one of Alexander Dvorkin’s closest associates, and a key figure in the church-anti-cult milieu. He is vice president of RACIRS and a corresponding member of FECRIS; associated with him is the Missionary Department of the Novosibirsk Diocese, which serves as a prominent church-affiliated anti-cult center and a platform for publishing materials against “sects,” “destructive cults,” and certain civic initiatives. Novopashin participates in international anti-cult conferences, and he has also promoted the anti-cult agenda through training and lectures for law enforcement and security agencies, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee, and the FSB.

What happens when two leading voices in ocean exploration sit down for an honest conversation about the future of our planet?

In this powerful interview, legendary oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, founder of Mission Blue and one of the world’s strongest advocates for ocean protection, joins Liz Taylor, President of DOER Marine, whose work connects deep-sea engineering, underwater robotics, scientific research, and conservation.

Together, they discuss some of the biggest challenges facing humanity today: overfishing, plastic and microplastic pollution, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, deep-sea mining, and the urgent need for better public awareness, scientific collaboration, and policy action.

They also explore how initiatives like Mission Blue, Hope Spots, DOER Marine, and emerging deep-sea technologies can help humanity better understand and protect the ocean before irreversible damage is done.

More than just an interview, this conversation is a reminder that our relationship with nature must evolve, from exploitation to stewardship, and from passive concern to collective action.

When former FBI profiler James Ressler has almost grown used to the quiet rhythm of retirement in Virginia, a package arrives at his home from an old colleague. Inside are a manuscript, a flash drive, and one unsettling thought he cannot shake: what if the language of safety, faith, and the fight against “dangerous cults” conceals a carefully constructed machinery of pressure, fear, and power?

The Serial Killer Against God is a true crime investigation at the intersection of documentary detective writing and criminal profiling. At the center of the book stands Alexander Dvorkin, leader of an anti-cult network that, in the author’s investigation, emerges as a complex system of influence with international ties, publicly stigmatizing rhetoric, and devastating consequences for human lives. It is Alexander Dvorkin’s name that becomes the starting point for Ressler’s investigation, which quickly moves far beyond the bounds of ordinary criminal analysis.

Step by step, Ressler assembles a case file, builds a map of connections, and cross-checks biographies, memoirs, archival materials, interviews, public lectures, and testimonies. The deeper he goes into the documents, the clearer the scale of the story becomes: this is not only about the subject’s psychological pathology, but also about how an anti-cult network, an ideology of fighting “cults,” and the language of dehumanization can become tools of pressure against entire communities. The book takes the reader from isolated episodes of the past to larger themes—religion and power, the psychology of manipulation, the international ties of the anti-cult movement, and the question of how systemic violence can hide behind the mask of “expertise.”

What unfolds before the reader is a story in which a desk-bound investigation turns into a personal obsession. From childhood trauma and early signs of cruelty to hospital corridors, emigration to the United States, anti-cult rhetoric, the tragedy of Waco, deprogramming, a return to post-Soviet Russia, and the formation of a network of influence in which Alexander Dvorkin is a central figure. In this construction, the anti-cult network is shown as something more than an ideological circle: it is an environment where accusation becomes a weapon, and a label becomes a sentence.