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Three months into Russia’s assault on Ukraine, PAVEL LISYANSKY reports that anti-war protesters, pushed back in March by a fierce legal clampdown, are finding ways to make their voices heard
While the Russian media claims wholesale popular approval of the Kremlin’s military aggression, Russians (...)
Volodymyr Ishchenko, a Ukrainian political sociologist, sees the Russian invasion as the consequence of a “crisis of hegemony” and failure of leadership both on the global level and inside Russia. He talks with Courthouse News.
What drove Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine? Why (...)
Troops are saying no to officers, knowing that punishment is light while Russia is not technically at war
When the soldiers of an elite Russian army brigade were told in early April to prepare for a second deployment to Ukraine, fear broke out among the ranks.
The unit, stationed in Russia’s (...)
A protest song by Russian group Novy Svelo, called ’Go Back Russia’
Nogu Svelo! (Russian: Ногу свело) which means leg cramp.
Back, Russia!"* Ole-ole-ole-ole Soldiers’ mothers are waiting at home. Ole-ole-ole-ole Back, Russia! Back!
Ole-ole-ole-ole Soldiers’ mothers are waiting at home. Ole-ole-ole-ole (...)
Russian socialist Ilya Budraitskis talks to Tribune about the war in Ukraine, the politics that produced that disaster – and the complexities of nationalism in Putin’s Russia.
For the last decade, one of the liveliest and most intelligent voices on the Russian left has come from the Moscow-based (...)
Everyone knows that four empires ended their existence as a result of World War I: the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and German empires. The 20th century was basically the century of the end of empires and the self-determination of nations. Of the four defeated empires, two were (...)
Russian security forces raided the apartments of independent trade unionists in Moscow on Monday night in a direct attack on the organising of gig economy workers, writes an anonymous rs21 member. This article includes descriptions of torture.
Late on Monday night, Russian security forces (...)
What are conditions like in Russia amidst the war and sanctions? What is the popular reaction to all of this? How does this break down by class and region?
The public mood has changed since the beginning of the war. In its first days, most of the people were very disappointed about it. The (...)
A modified curriculum in schools will include state-approved textbooks that edit out positive references to its neighbour
When Pavel Tkachev heard about the special lessons on the war in Ukraine that took place at his son’s high school in the Primorksy district of St Petersburg earlier this (...)
The disastrous military campaign, unprecedented Western sanctions and the ensuing economic crisis tested the resilience of the Russian regime. Putin’s political system withstood the test; and his grip on power is as strong as ever. However, his ability to solve Russia’s problems and achieve (...)
The ramifications of an EU energy embargo for the Russian economy
“We can freeze now and again for freedom” and endure “less happiness and joie de vivre” for a couple of years. With this comment on the ARD talk show Maischberger on 9 March, former German president Joachim Gauck reiterated his (...)
Given how the Kremlin is so determined to portray Ukraine as a hotbed of Nazis, it is tragically ironic not only that its own forces seem determined to recreate some of the horrors of the German invasion in the second world war, but also that it is so willing to use its own fascists in pursuit (...)
Russia seems to be getting serious about building an international alliance of extreme right parties that would aim at undermining the liberal democratic consensus in the West. In addition to providing financial support for parties such as France’s Front National and using extreme right (...)
According to Russian president Vladimir Putin:
“The United States continues to receive more and more immigrants, and, as far as I understand, the white, Christian population is already outnumbered … White Christians have become a minority, less than 50 percent now. … Russia is a vast territory, (...)
Karine Clément writes that working people can be the agents of change in Putin’s Russia.
Everywhere I hear only terrified exclamations against “those people”, this brainwashed Russian people who massively support the war and the criminal acts of Putin. I read this from the pen of French (...)
Russian scientists are turning to partners abroad to help them escape, but face an uncertain future even if successful
Prof John Duggan*, a climate scientist at a Russell Group university, had a Zoom call a few weeks ago with two Russian research partners shortly after their country invaded (...)
Moscow sociologist Greg Yudin on Putin’s unleashed power apparatus and the political motives behind the attack on Ukraine
Greg Yudin is a philosopher and sociologist at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. Two days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, he anticipated quite (...)
They created parallel universes without confronting the political order – although their satirical stance lives on
I am a historian of the Soviet Union, a country that does not exist any more. I study the history of Soviet hippies, a phenomenon that also belongs in the past. During the (...)
Editorial note: Here, as part of an international solidarity campaign, LeftEast gathers four testimonies, all which tell, in very personal ways, the story of DOXA, a student journal at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow), which quickly outgrew the confines of its origins to become the voice (...)
A lot of the soldiers dying in Putin’s war are from poorer ‘ethnic minority’ republics, says Russian military expert
Holding smoking incense sticks and singing hymns, a group of Buddhist monks sat in front of the open coffins of four Russian soldiers killed fighting in Ukraine as hundreds of (...)
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