Boris Akunin: ‘I have two Russias: the one I love with all my heart, and the one I don’t’

30 November - 10 December 2025 by Boris Akunin Source: Facebook 30 November 2025 Tom Stoppard was probably the best of the modern playwrights, but the last text of his…

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Anna Karetnikova: Deaths on remand, anti-war protester arrested in Armenia, culinary historian arrested, nuclear physicist imprisoned

9 - 15 October 2025 by Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook Strange occurrences are continuing in a remand centre in the city of Ekaterinburg. Two detainees have died – both allegedly…

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Anna Karetnikova: You have to sometimes focus on the trivial things to stop yourself from going crazy

21 - 26 February 2025 by Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook 21 February 2025 There was a discussion that suddenly got going on Radio Svoboda: I was saying that all inmates…

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Ed Glezin: 37 years ago, the first ever Soviet publication of Vasily Grossman’s novel ‘Life and Fate’

26 January 2025 by Ed Glezin Source: Facebook 37 years ago, the first ever Soviet publication of Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate appeared in the January 1988 edition of…

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International Helsinki Group: Forty-seven years ago, on May 12, 1976, the Moscow Group to Assist Implementation of the Helsinki Accords in the USSR announced its creation

12 May 2023 by International Helsinki Group [IHG] Source: Facebook Forty-seven years ago, on May 12, 1976, the Moscow Group to Assist Implementation of the Helsinki Accords in the USSR…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Rejoinder to Boris Akunin [from 23 January 2013]

23 January 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Facebook Exactly 10 years ago, I published an article in Ezhednevnyi Zhurnal, and now I’ve reread it with a certain grim satisfaction. And…

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Oleg Orlov: ‘They wanted fascism. They got it.’

14 November 2022 by Oleg Orlov, co-chair of the board of the Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Source: Facebook [this article was first published in French translation by Mediapart] The bloody…

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