Podcast: Then & Now #11 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Aleksandra Ilkhovskaya and Svetlana Dokudovskaya

29 September 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the eleventh edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.  My guests today are two Parisians, Aleksandra Ilkhovskaya and Svetlana Dokudovskaya:…

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Ilya Shablinsky: The unprecedented sentence given to Aleksei Navalny – 19 Years in maximum security. And for what? [Spektr.press, 9 August 2023]

9 August 2023 Source: Spektr.press On August 4, Aleksei Navalny was sentenced to 19 years in a maximum-security prison, the most severe of all detention facilities. The verdict was handed…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘The Last Days of Stalin’ by Joshua Rubenstein

18 September 2023 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews The Last Days of Stalin by Joshua Rubenstein, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2016/2017, £12.99, ISBN 978-0-300-22884-7 (pbk). Now…

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Rights in Russia Update [15 September 2023]

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Speech at the 32nd International Economic Forum in Poland

9 September 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Facebook Speech at the 32nd International Economic Forum in Poland, 9 September 2023 Dear ladies and gentlemen! I would like to touch on…

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Ilya Shablinsky: Myths and legends of a united Russia – on the final ban on personal opinions

12 September 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.press Among the most significant developments in the intellectual life of the country in recent months were the publication in Nezavisimaya Gazeta of…

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