Aleksandr Skobov: This is Civil War [Kasparov.ru]

24 February 2025 [updated 25 February 2025] Aleksandr Skobov declared in court today that he intentionally engineered his own arrest. We publish a transcript of his speech Source: Kasparov.ru Aleksandr…

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Lev Shlosberg: There will be no ‘second Yalta’

Lev Shlosberg 21 December 2024 Source: Telegram Putin’s global geopolitical goal, since 2007 at the latest (the “Munich Speech” on 10 February), is to revise international spheres of influence, to…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek on dictatorship’s weapon: Freedom to blather and fear

6 December 2024 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda Cowardice is killing Russia. People’s fear of losing their immediate well-being is leaving our country without a future. This is well…

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Sergei Davidis: On being labelled a terrorist by the terrorist regime

28 November 2024 by Sergei Davidis, сo-chair of the Centre for Protection of Human Rights Memorial and head of the project 'Political Prisoners. Memorial.' Source: Facebook Today it became known…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: On collecting garbage from propaganda dumpsters

24 November 2024 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Facebook Everyone is talking about the results of the Russian Field telephone survey about the war in Ukraine. 53% of respondents are pro…

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Andrei Sapozhnikov on Neo-Suslovism: What tools is the Kremlin using to destroy modern Russian culture? [Novaya gazeta]

Mikhail Suslov in 1964 (Wikipedia) 8 February 2024 by Andrei Sapozhnikov Source: Novaya gazeta For almost two years now, ‘cultural governance’ by the Russian authorities has been heading in a…

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Crushing the defence: Ilya Shablinsky on how the jailing of Aleksei Navalny’s lawyers can be likened to the repressions under Stalin and the Third Reich

19 October 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: spektr.press  This is something we truly haven't witnessed since the early days of the Soviet Union. Three lawyers - who were defending a…

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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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