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…
Photo by Sergei Chugunov 3 July 2023 By Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press I am still trying to make sense of what happened last week. The FSB reported the termination of…
Photo by Sergei Chugunov 26 June 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press We need to reflect and comment on a recent episode of political life that has been both dramatic…
Photo by Sergei Chugunov 19 June 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press It turns out that that the first thing to be done here is to review and somehow analyse…
Photo by Sergei Chugunov 12 June 2023. By Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press The circumstances surrounding the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station remain unclear. But perhaps the most important…
Photo by Sergei Chugunov 5 June 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press Prigozhin and Russia's War against Ukraine The main figure of the current stage of the war, Evgeny Prigozhin,…
Photo by Sergei Chugunov 29 May 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press Last week, Evgeny Prigozhin again emerged as a major newsmaker. For starters, he claimed that his private army…
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…
Mary Page talks with Dr Anton Burkov, a native of Ekaterinburg where for many years he worked with the human rights NGO Sutyazhnik. In 2001 he received the FEMIDA award…
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…