Podcast Then & Now #28 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Natalia Soprunova

16 February 2025 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the twenty-eighth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.  To paraphrase Tolstoy, every story of Russian emigration is unhappy in…

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Russian Helsinki Group: A law allowing migrant children not to be admitted to school must not be passed!

8 December 2024 An appeal from human rights advocates to the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education, the Commissioner for Human Rights of…

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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…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: School – to arms! Why Russian adolescents have 70 hours of war a year

11 November 2022  by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV The waves of military-patriotic hysteria raised by state propaganda have reached our schools. Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov has announced the introduction of…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Look after the children. How the Kremlin is trying to turn Russian children into fools

3 October 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV “Children are our future.” That’s what the posters in the Soviet Union said. The Communists were counting on a long reign and…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: No children’s camp. How children end up as raw material for totalitarianism [The Insider]

16 April 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: The Insider The stern Russian state takes a harsh and distrustful view of children. In the minds of the authorities, children can become…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Zombies, vampires and lies are the engine of war

3 March 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Today, the Russian Ministry of Education has directed that a lesson be given in all of Russia’s schools devoted to the Russian…

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