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 #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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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Who Are the Putinalias Intended For?

25 February 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV  Everyone understood long ago that the rallies in support of the regime are nothing but government-ordered and propagandistic in nature. These actions’…

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Witnesses Against War #2: Web-designer, currently outside Russia

22 May 2022 Witness #2: a web-designer, currently outside Russia Source: Witnesses Against War Witnesses Against War is an anonymous international group of journalists, writers, historians and translators, who live in…

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Svetlana Astrakhantseva: The state is using legal instruments against us that were intended to help civil society and human rights organizations function, not shut them down

8 February 2023 Svetlana Astrakhantseva, member and acting director of the MHG [Moscow Helsinki Group] Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Spektr] The Russian government has blocked the website of the…

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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: We shall see the triumph of insanity and cruelty

7 - 20 January 2023 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny A corporate state  Everywhere (or almost everywhere) in the former USSR the model of a corporate state has come into being in…

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Grigory Yavlinsky: ‘Stop it! – There is only one scenario for avoiding a vast number of new victims’

Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 4 February 2023 by Grigory Yavlinsky, politician Source: Free Space When it was perfectly obvious that Russia’s large-scale military actions were…

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