Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SUKHANOV Nikolay
How much money is the Russian state willing to spend on war at the expense of medicine and education? How will Russian public officials be spending budget money in the coming years? Should pensioners or low-income groups look forward to “giveaways” from Vladimir Putin before the upcoming (...)
, by Univesity Platform
When it comes to Russian anti-war resistance, political dissent in Russian universities is often overlooked. It is eclipsed by the remarkable unity of the rectors of the universities who signed a letter in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine the week after it began, which resulted in (...)
, by ROTH Andrew
Airport in Russia’s Muslim southern region closed after hundreds storm tarmac and climb on to planes
A mob in Russia’s mostly Muslim region of Dagestan has stormed the airport in Makhachkala in search of Jewish passengers arriving from Israel.
In the past day, local people have besieged a (...)
, by METELKIN Vladimir
How has the Russian media covered the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East? And what’s been going on with social media? Why did the proponents of liberal democracy forget about human rights at a most critical moment? Historian and journalist Vladimir Metelkin talks about the first (...)
, by COALSON Robert
Linguistics professor Svetlana Drugoveiko-Dolzhanskaya’s 41-year career teaching at St. Petersburg State University (SPGU) came to an end on October 13 — a Friday, as ill luck would have it. The esteemed educator, who created and headed the university’s master’s degree program in editing and (...)
, by IVANOVA Tatyana
The Russian president is seeking to take advantage of the outbreak of violence.
On October 13, in Bishkek, Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced his thoughts about Hamas’s attack and the Israeli retaliation operation in the Gaza Strip. He recognized the right of Israel to self-defense but (...)
, by COYNASH Halya
Russia’s persecution of Oleg Orlov is part of its attack on Memorial, an organization that played an invaluable role in speaking out against all Russia’s crimes against Ukraine and in defence of its political prisoners
A court in Moscow has found 70-year-old Oleg Orlov ‘guilty’ of a (...)
, by YASHIN Ilya
OVD-Info and Memorial appealed to the UN Human Rights Committee with a complaint against Article 20.3.3, the «wartime fakes» article designed to persecute anti-war dissidents. The appeal unites the interests of 10 political prisoners. Among them is politician Ilya Yashin, sentenced to over (...)
, by LATYPOVA Leyla
President Vladimir Putin last week introduced a bill greenlighting Russia’s exit from the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM), the world’s most comprehensive legally binding treaty devoted to safeguarding the rights of minority groups.
Russia is home to (...)
, by BUDRAITSKIS Ilya
Ilya Budraitskis writes that in Putin’s Russia, the mass media has completely gone from being a function of society to a form of power over it. In alliance with the authoritarian regime, it has made the country a real “society of the spectacle,” the totality of which would horrify even the (...)
, par DERGACHEVA Daria
The movie is about a Russian policeman suspected raping a Yakut girl
A movie by Yakut director Stepan Birnashev, “Aita,” was removed from streaming services in Russia by the demand of Roskomnadzor [the Russian media and internet watchdog and main censorship body].
The reason Roskomnadzor (...)
, by LE TREHONDAT Patrick
Vitaliy is a young Ukrainian revolutionary activist. The war on February 24 took him by surprise in Kherson. There, he experienced Russian aggression at close quarters. For refusing a Russian passport, a negation of his Ukrainian identity, he was deported to central Russia, where he lives in (...)
, by SEETHI K.M.
A prominent figure in the Russian Leftist intellectual sphere, a distinguished social scientist and prolific political writer, Kagarlitsky was arrested on July 25 for ’acts of terrorism’ by the Vladimir Putin’s government.
In the complex realm of contemporary Russia, social life has become (...)
, by MEDVEDEV Kirill
Russian anarchist Azat Miftakhov is spending his fifth year in jail for “hooliganism” — and now faces being framed on fake terrorism charges. His persecution is part of the Russian state’s campaign to intimidate the Left and silence opposition to the war.
On July 12, news arrived that (...)
, by VITKINE Benoît
Released from prison on Monday, the anarchist activist sentenced in 2021 for the attack on a premises in United Russia was arrested again.Investigators accuse him of remarks “justifying terrorism” made in detention.
Azat Miftakhov only tasted freedom for a handful of minutes, the time to (...)
, by VANDEVERT John
John David Vandevert describes how the Russian authorities are turning down the volume on a once vibrant music scene well known for its rampant free expression
In the 1990s, groups like Bachelor Party (Malchishnik) shocked a newly liberated post-Soviet Russia with funky displays of sexual (...)
, by SHENKMAN Yan
A few Russian musicians – most of them now forced to live abroad – are using songs to stand against the war in Ukraine
While the Russian invasion of February 2022 sparked a burst of anti-war musical creativity in Ukraine, it’s been a different story in Russia, where musical output (...)
, by BUDRAITSKIS Ilya, Radar Internacional
The beginning of the invasion of Ukraine was not only a matter of foreign policy but also a way of disciplining Russian society. And when you look back at the first months of this invasion, you realise how internally the rules of the game have completely changed in Russia. Interview with Ilya (...)
, by BRUSA Francesco, BUDRAITSKIS Ilya
WAR. Interview with the socialist political scientist: ’After the Wagner mutiny, the FSB is even more powerful: it is managing Putin’s fears. From prison Navalny does not mention the Russian left, much less enter into the merits of his political programme: it is a total rejection of any (...)
, by LATYPOVA Leyla
“They took my relatives to the war in Ukraine.”
In an emotional Instagram post, exiled Chechen human rights lawyer Abubakar Yangulbaev said authorities in his home region had forcefully taken four of his closest male relatives to the frontlines in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Donetsk region. (...)
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