Aleksandr Podrabinek on Xenophobia: Stupidity Without Borders

5 December 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda The Russian Supreme Court’s decision to deem the nonexistent “international LGBT movement” extremist is absurd in form but natural and explicable…

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The Unpunished. Aleksandr Podrabinek on a justice system of thugs

17 November 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda St Petersburg judge Oksana Demyasheva sentenced artist Sasha Skochilenko to seven years behind bars for anti-war writing on supermarket price tags. …

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‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Ukrainian activist Serhiy Tsygipa is a political prisoner

27 October 2023 Serhiy Tsygipa has been sentenced in occupied Crimea on charges of espionage to 13 years in a strict regime penal colony Source: Political Prisoners. Memorial The human…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: ‘We are drifting into the Stalinist era.’ Dissident Aleksandr Podrabinek on the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Political Repression, and the hunger strike protest [Spektr.Press]

31 October 2023 by Andrei Presnyakov Source: Spektr.Press On October 30, Russia is reviving a tradition that even 20 years back seemed like it belonged in textbooks on USSR history.…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Between Victory and Defeat [an article originally published on 4 October 1993]

4 October 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Originally published in Ekspress-Khronika, 1993, №40/322 Source: Facebook Thirty years ago events took place in Russia that could have drastically altered the course of…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Equality of War – on the wiles of dictatorship

28 September 2023 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda There is rarely just one reason for major historical events. This is also true of the war on Ukraine. Putin’s gravest…

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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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Aleksandr Podrabinek: On the logic of opposition – pushing back against dictatorship

28 August 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda The war against Ukraine has been a catastrophe for Russia as well as Ukraine. For this reason, it would not be…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: ‘Political Prisoner’ Isn’t a Select Order

31 July 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Radio Svoboda After Igor Strelkov-Girkin’s arrest, a strange discussion unfolded in the public space over whether the arrested man should be considered a…

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