Fergus Wright: Connecting Anti-War Groups in the West, Belarus, and Russia and What it Means for the War in Ukraine 

31 August 2022 by Fergus Wright In PATRIR’s offices in Cluj-Napoca, a division is working to identify non-violent, anti-war groups inside Russia and Belarus. This project is hoping to create…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: An Attempt to Save Russia from Ruin and Preserve It

25 August 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Two Reuters sources in the Kremlin have spoken about how the Russian authorities want to reach a ceasefire with Ukraine. This may be…

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‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Mikhail Afanasiev, a journalist from Khakassia, is a political prisoner

24 June 2022 Mikhail Afanasiev was remanded in custody on charges of spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian army for a publication about OMON riot police officers who refused to…

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Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Free: Coming of Age at the End of History’ by Lea Ypi

30 August 2022 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi. Paperback 336pp ISBN-9780141995106 (Allen Lane, London, 2022) Lea Ypi is a professor…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: A bitter pill in a sweet wrapper. The EU will achieve nothing by cancelling visas for Russians

22 August 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV The 21st century has shown two ways of capitulating to a strong and insidious enemy: one, the old way, is to bow…

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 267: ‘He’s not Dimon to You,’ or five years later.

20 August 2022 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests and prosecutions in Russia. Each week OVD-Info publishes a bulletin with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Subtleties of Propaganda

18 August.2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Today's Russian state propaganda is in some sense more sophisticated than Soviet propaganda. Previously, propaganda inside the country was crude and clumsy, hitting…

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