Elena Fanailova: Murder in January – On Antifascists’ Day
18 January 2026 By Elena Fanailova Source: Radio Svoboda An official day commemorating a young antifascist hero was celebrated in the Soviet Union and is celebrated in Russia on 8…
Konstantin Kotov: Political prisoners have to be rendered every possible support, if only with letters.
Konstantin Kotov at his 2019 trial [Source: Amnesty Internatioal] 21 January 2025 ' “I control my own fate”. Konstantin Kotov on leaving Russia' by Olga Aleksandrova Source: Radio Svoboda Konstantin…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: On Impunity and an Epidemic of Violence
1 October 2024 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda Recently in one school in Balagansk, Irkutsk Oblast, an eighth grader attacked his classmates with a hammer and knife. Three schoolchildren…
Sergei Lebedev: “How did it come about that the Gulag returned?”
Sergei Lebedev. Photo: Radio Svoboda 20 March 2024 An extract from an interview with Sergei Lebedev by Andrei Arkhangelsky Source: Radio Svoboda Sergei Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1981.…
Enough to make a cat laugh. Aleksandr Podrabinek on the Russian presidential election
11 March 2024 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda “Enough to make a cat laugh”—in the days of socialism that was how people characterized undertakings of the Soviet regime that…
Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’ by Mark G. Pomar
5 June 2023 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty by Mark G. Pomar, Potomac Books, University…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: On Empires – A Bugbear for Simpletons
15 May 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda A drunk searches for it where the light is, not where he lost it. A fool does what’s easy, not what’s…
‘Fuel for despotism.’ Aleksandr Podrabinek on the list of resentments
7 December 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Liberty Nature has given the ordinary human being five senses. Soviet power, as the joke then went, brought out a sixth sense…
Aleksandr Podrabinek on bombs and missiles: The dark side of progress
14 November 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda Scientific-technical progress cannot be stopped. In the history of humanity, many have tried, but none have succeeded. The thirst for knowledge…
Andrei Arkhangelsky on historical parallels and a possible future prosecution of Russia’s political leaders and propagandists
5 November 2022 by Andrei Arkhangelsky, journalist and culture specialist Source: Radio Svoboda In the Hague, at the request of Ukraine and with the participation of international jurists, a special…
