‘Not a very pleasant analogy.’ Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of last week: Kinzhal-Patriot duel, the Roizman verdict and Zelensky’s foreign tour.

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 22 May 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press The drawn-out and exhausting war of attrition in Ukraine continues. The main theatre of military action remains Bakhmut…

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‘A mixture of anger and despair.’ Ilya Shablinsky on important events of the past week: Prigozhin’s attacks and which lawyer would best serve the superconservative course in Russia

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 15 May 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press The expected offensive by the Ukrainian armed forces along different sectors of the huge front promised to be…

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Read more about the article Ilya Shablinsky on important events of the past week: What the statement by Russian opposition groups in Berlin means, Prigozhin’s speech in Ukraine, and the charges against dramatists in Moscow [Spektr]
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Ilya Shablinsky on important events of the past week: What the statement by Russian opposition groups in Berlin means, Prigozhin’s speech in Ukraine, and the charges against dramatists in Moscow [Spektr]

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 8 May 2023 By Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.press Representatives of Russian political opposition groups met in Berlin on 30 April – 1 May. They adopted the…

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Read more about the article The Cult of Putin. Why Biden needs a new term and what ideology is being formed in the Kremlin – Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week
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The Cult of Putin. Why Biden needs a new term and what ideology is being formed in the Kremlin – Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week

Photo by Sergei Chugunov I May 2023. by Ilya Shablinsky, legal expert, member of Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Spektr.Press Joseph Biden, the incumbent president of the United States, announced he…

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Read more about the article Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of last week: Pashinyan’s peace proposals, an explosion in Belgorod and Kozlovsky’s cultural demarche
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Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of last week: Pashinyan’s peace proposals, an explosion in Belgorod and Kozlovsky’s cultural demarche

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 24 April2023 By Ilya Shablinsky, legal expert and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Spektr.press The Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, speaking in Parliament on…

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Read more about the article Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week: How the amendments to the law on conscription make Russia similar to Germany in 1936 and what’s important in Prigozhin’s reasoning
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Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week: How the amendments to the law on conscription make Russia similar to Germany in 1936 and what’s important in Prigozhin’s reasoning

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 17 April 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky – legal expert and member of th Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Spektr.Press In Russia, the State Duma passed amendments to…

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Read more about the article The price of words. Lukashenka’s threats, the murder of a ‘military correspondent’ and the persecution of the Free University – Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week
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The price of words. Lukashenka’s threats, the murder of a ‘military correspondent’ and the persecution of the Free University – Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 3 April 2023 By Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press Last week, Belarusian dictator Lukashenka unexpectedly suggested that Ukraine and Russia immediately sign an armistice and come to…

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Read more about the article Raising the stakes in the war. Why Putin is sending in his old tanks and how his strategy differs from China’s – Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week
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Raising the stakes in the war. Why Putin is sending in his old tanks and how his strategy differs from China’s – Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 27 March 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press The Russian dictator has decided once again to raise the stakes. Either for the morale of his generals,…

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Read more about the article Grim analogies. Does Putin have immunity from the ICC and what does the arrest of Roizman mean? – Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week
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Grim analogies. Does Putin have immunity from the ICC and what does the arrest of Roizman mean? – Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 20 March 2023 By Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova. The…

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