Aleksandr Podrabinek: Peacemakers line up at the Kremlin Gates

29 May 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV How do we stop Russia’s war against Ukraine? This topic has become fashionable in international relations. Just who hasn’t signed up to…

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Russia’s Informers. A discussion with Sergei Medvedev, Olga Romanova and Aleksandr Cherkasov [Radio Svoboda]

26 April 2023 Olga Romanova and Aleksandr Cherkasov on how the culture of denunciation has been reborn in Russia Source: Radio Svoboda Sergei Medvedev: In a year of war, denunciation culture…

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Lev Shlosberg: The collapse of the state begins with its alienation from the individual

13 April 2023 Lev Shlosberg, chairman of the Pskov Regional Branch of the Yabloko party, historian, journalist and holder of a Moscow Helsinki Group award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group For…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Great Terror Lite

12 April 2023 By Aleksandr Podrabinek   Source: Vot-Tak.TV With the beginning of the war against Ukraine, the moderately severe authoritarian dictatorship in Russia began swiftly transforming itself into a merciless…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: On the thirst for peace and the Moloch of dictatorship

3 April 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda "We need world peace!" - Soviet leaders loudly proclaimed in their day, while evil tongues added: "But mostly, we want the…

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Podcast: Then & Now #3 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Lev Gudkov

17 March 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the third episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.   After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24,…

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Witnesses Against War #5: Freelancer, Moscow (40-50)

29 May 2022 Witness #5: Freelancer, Moscow (40-50) Source: Witnesses Against War Witnesses Against War is an anonymous international group of journalists, writers, historians and translators, who live in Moscow and…

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Witnesses Against War #4: Freelancer, Russian Far-East (50-60)

29 May 2022 Witness #4: Freelancer, Russian Far-East (50-60) Source: Witnesses Against War Witnesses Against War is an anonymous international group of journalists, writers, historians and translators, who live in Moscow…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: A jokester pulls the wool and the death penalty in Russia

6 March 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Sometimes a small news item lost in the stream of other news can give you a much broader picture of present-day Russian…

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Ilya Shablinsky: Worse than the Black Colonels and Saddam Hussein. The criminal law of the Russian regime

20 February 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky, doctor of legal sciences, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Спектр] There is cheering news for all Russian speakers:…

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