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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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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Oleg Orlov’s speech at his trial: ‘We now find ourselves in the world of George Orwell’

11 October 2023 Oleg Orlov's speech at his trial Source: Radio Svoboda Radio Svoboda has published the text of Oleg Orlov's final speech at his trial for ‘discrediting’ the Russian…

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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: 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 Cherkasov: The defeat of the Putin regime is necessary for Russia itself

Photo: Nikita Mouraviev 31 July 2023 Danila Galperovich interviews Aleksandr Cherkasov Source: Voice of America The former head of Memorial Human Rights Centre that was closed down by the Russian…

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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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Boris Altshuler: Andrei Sakharov’s lessons for the present and future

12 June 2023 Speech at the roundtable 'Andrei Sakharov and the World Today', Andrei Sakharov Institute, Paris, 12 June 2023 [Edited by Boris Alshuler for publication] by Boris Altshuler, member…

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