Ed Glezin: An Open Letter to President Boris Yeltsin by Sergei Kovalev
24 January 2025 by Ed Glezin Source: Facebook [a pdf of this letter is also available at Открытое письмо Б. Ельцину] 29 years ago — on 24 January 1996 —…
Ed Glezin: The Constitutional Coup of 1993
12 December 2024 Ed Glezin Source: Facebook Aleksei Navalny: “I hate the authors of the incredibly stupid authoritarian constitution that we idi@ts were sold as democratic though it had given…
Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘How to end Russia’s War on Ukraine: Safeguarding Europe’s futures, and the dangers of a false peace,’ a report published by Chatham House
22 July 2023 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews How to end Russia’s War on Ukraine: Safeguarding Europe’s futures, and the dangers of a false peace, edited by James Nixey, published by…
Lev Ponomarev on Boris Yeltsin: The Hero Who Was Deleted from History
1 February 2023 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights defender Source: Ekho Moskvy Kremlin.ru, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Today is the birth date of Boris Yeltsin, democratic Russia’s…
Aleksandr Cherkasov
Aleksandr Cherkasov on post-Soviet wars: how to break the chain of impunity
Photo: Nikita Mouraviev 11 December 2022 by Aleksandr Cherkasov [a translation of an abbreviated version of Aleksandr Cherkasov's presentation at the 'Russian Realities' online conference] Source: Facebook [original source: O…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: Political Prisoner’s Day and Russia’s Night
30 October 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV When in 1991 the new Russian regime, like an inspired marauder, stole the Day of the Political Prisoner and turned it into…
Olga Romanova: Fishman on the country and Nemtsov
Olga Romanova 3 May 2022 Olga Romanova reviews Mikhail Fishman's new book: Преемник. История Бориса Немцова и страны, в которой он не стал президентом [The Successor. The history of Boris…
Aleksandr Tsipko: ‘Russians are tired of empire.’ On why the Soviet Union disappeared
Photo: Institute of the Economy of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2 December 2021 by Aleksandr Tsipko Aleksandr Tsipko is a Russian social philosopher and poltical scientist and chief researcher…
Rights in Russia interview – with Benjamin Nathans, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania
Mary Page talks with Benjamin Nathans, the Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Nathans teaches and writes about Imperial Russia and the Soviet…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Benefit of Forgetfulness, or A Few Words about the Significance of Reputation
5 October 2021 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: VotTak - Belsat TV The younger generation – those who were born at the turn of the millennium – have little knowledge of,…
