21 May 2021 Speech at a Yabloko event organised in honour of Andrei Sakharov, marking his centenary by Viktor Kogan-Yasny I apologise if this is a bit of an excursion…
7 June 2021 by Martin Dewhirst Over the years I have read many blogs by Yury Samodurov, but this was the first one that I felt should be made available…
2 March 2021 By Andrei Kovalev. Andrei Kovalev worked for many years at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as a member of the secretariat of Soviet President…
Week-ending 5 March 2021 Photo: Official CTBTO Photostream Wikipedia On 2 March 2021 former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev turned 90. He was born on 2 March 1931 into a poor…
This week our guest on the podcast is Lev Markovich Shlosberg. Lev Markovich is a Russian politician, a civil society and human rights activist, and a journalist. He is chair…
Photo: Emerging Europe On 13 January 1991 14 died and hundreds were injured in Vilnius when Soviet troops attempted to crush the Lithuanian independence movement. Today, 13 January is Freedom…
The Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced with the flag of Russia on 25 December 1991, a day before the USSR was officially dissolved. Source: Wikipedia 25 December 1991 – Russian Soviet Federative…
This week our guest on our podcast is Sofiya Yurievna Ivanova. Sofiya is a human rights activist in Ryazan, where she grew up and graduated from the Lomonosov Pedagogical Institute.…