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Four DOXA magazine journalists spent a year under house arrest because of a video urging young Russians not to be afraid of peaceful protesting. Now another author of the online magazine faces seven years in prison for a post on Vkontakte.
One day in late April, Maria Menshikova was simply (...)
A long-retired Russian military man was discussing current events by phone with a former colleague living in Ukraine. Both resented the war between the two recently fraternal countries and expressed the hope that this madness would soon end. A few days later, representatives of the special (...)
His friend recalls how he ended up in Ukraine and what he fought for
A month ago, 19 April, Russian anarchist Dmitry Petrov, PhD in history, author of several books on the Kurdistan liberation movement, and associate at the Institute of Africa (Russian Academy of Sciences), was killed in (...)
Civil society is beleaguered but alive in the face of Putin’s elaborate apparatus of repression
More than a year into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, my western friends often ask me: why don’t Russians protest? The answer is that some do — but protest is largely futile in the face of a (...)
Here is the first piece in the “Unordinary Fascism” series: a conversation between Ilya Budraitskis and historian Enzo Traverso about the global rise of post-fascism, Putin’s Russia, and the war in Ukraine
Ilya Budraitskis: A few years ago, you wrote The New Faces of Fascism, where you defined (...)
Political writer Ilya Budraitskis explains the left’s vision of decentralized governance and why Russia’s Communist Party must exit together with Putin.
The invasion of Ukraine confronted Russian society with the consequences of a decades-long transformation that began, among other things, with (...)
May Day is not only International Workers’ Day but also a day of solidarity with the oppressed peoples and civil disobedience against war. For example, one can remember the 1971 May Day protests against US imperialist aggression in Vietnam in Washington. During that time, the antiwar movement’s (...)
Will we witness a new development in the Network case? How is the investigation’s strategy changing against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine? How to carry out a public campaign to support potential defendants in the case? Ivan Astashin, member of Solidarity Zone, and Victor (name changed at (...)
1. On March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. The announcement says that a storage facility for these weapons in the country is scheduled to be completed by July 1, and that nuclear-capable aircraft and missiles (...)
Vladimir Putin promised to “denazify Ukraine,” but this week he suppressed Russia’s own watchdog monitoring the far right. Unable to crush Ukraine, his government has turned its fire on domestic critics of war and nationalism.
“How are things going for the Russian left? Really poorly,” says the (...)
«The woman behind the wheel is the driver,» says the propaganda of the Moscow region transport.
From the poster, a stern, old-fashioned cold wave-laden woman behind the wheel looks into the distance. The nostalgic font, heavily associated with the USSR, Rodchenko’s iconography, the tone of voice (...)
What is feminism like in the North Caucasus? What makes the women in Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia more vulnerable? Who helps them to fight for their rights and escape domestic violence? Journalist and human rights advocate Svetlana Anokhina explains
Tell us a little about your experience (...)
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s jailed opposition leader, has published a manifesto for the first time in his long and varied political career. Is this “better late than never”, or “too little, too late”?
The manifesto has fifteen points, but most discussion has centred on a small handful of them. (...)
Kirill Butylin, one of the first Russians to protest against the war on Ukraine by firebombing a military recruitment centre, today marks his 22nd birthday in pre-trial detention.
Butylin made the protest at the centre in Lukhovitsy, near Moscow, on 28 February last year – three days after the (...)
One year ago, Russian troops invaded Ukraine and began bombing peaceful cities. Before that, almost 9 years ago, Russia unleashed a war in Donbas and annexed Crimea. Tens of thousands of children and adults have already become victims of this carnage. Millions of people have abandoned their (...)
Sociologist Grigory Yudin was one of just a few Russian experts who believed in February 2022 that a military clash between Russia and Ukraine was inevitable. In an article published just two days before the invasion, Yudin predicted that a major war loomed in the near future, that Russians (...)
1991, Leningrad. The private office of the deputy mayor of the city. A reporter for the city’s television channel interviews a young official from Anatoly Sobchak’s team. In the frame — a man with a childish face in a white shirt. Behind him, you can see window blinds, a television, a table lamp, (...)
It will soon be one year since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Many activists have welcomed the start of the war in isolation cells and detention centres. It is likely that there will again be sweeps, raids and preventive detentions before the anniversary of the war.
The (...)
For a year now, Vladimir Putin’s regime has been killing Ukrainians, sending hundreds of thousands of Russians to their deaths, and threatening the world with nuclear weapons in the name of the insane goal of restoring its empire.
For us Russians who oppose Putin’s aggression and dictatorship, (...)
By the end of his long life, in 1910, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy had become the greatest public critic of the Russian Tsarist empire. By destabilising the Romanov autocracy through his writings, which amounted to more than eighty volumes, Lev Nikolaevich became Tsar Nicholas II’s most significant (...)
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