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,…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
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…