In todayās Russian prisons, a sign of a prosperous and materially well-off cell is the presence of a television set, usually provided…
Writing from a Russian prison, sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky has penned the following open letter in support of a broad solidarity campaign with left-wing Russian…
It has long been the consensus of the political scientists that elections in Russia solve nothing. And in fact, no matter how…
I was going to the airport to meet my wife, who was returning from abroad on July 25 last year. But the…
Boris Kagarlitsky, an internationally renowned scholar and political activist, was arrested on July 25 by the Russian Federal Security Service. Despite his…
āThey can, but we can’t.ā We had to repeat this for many months, when left-wing and liberal oppositionists were detained and sent…
There is only one Russian political prisoner, Alexei Navalny, who is known in the West. In Russia itself, he is also the…
A year has passed since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. When it all began, Kremlin propaganda promised the collapse…
Vladimir Putin, by declaring a āpartialā mobilization in Russia, achieved at least one thing: society finally realized that it was in a…
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