Fakery. Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week: another attempt by Putin to morally justify the war he is waging – and what he is counting on

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 19 June 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press It turns out that that the first thing to be done here is to review and somehow analyse…

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Read more about the article The dictator is nervous. Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week: Ukraine’s offensive scenarios, the trial of Memorial’s co-chair and the decision in the case of the Rwandan propagandist
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The dictator is nervous. Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week: Ukraine’s offensive scenarios, the trial of Memorial’s co-chair and the decision in the case of the Rwandan propagandist

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 12 June 2023. By Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press The circumstances surrounding the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station remain unclear. But perhaps the most important…

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Read more about the article Ideological unity. Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week: Prigozhin’s political programme, Kozlovsky’s expulsion from Russia and Shenderovich’s expulsion from Georgia
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Ideological unity. Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week: Prigozhin’s political programme, Kozlovsky’s expulsion from Russia and Shenderovich’s expulsion from Georgia

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 5 June 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press Prigozhin and Russia's War against Ukraine The main figure of the current stage of the war, Evgeny Prigozhin,…

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Read more about the article ‘The real aims of the war.’ Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week – Prigozhin’s readiness for civil war, Russian authorities’ attacks on scientists and Trump’s rival
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‘The real aims of the war.’ Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week – Prigozhin’s readiness for civil war, Russian authorities’ attacks on scientists and Trump’s rival

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 29 May 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press Last week, Evgeny Prigozhin again emerged as a major newsmaker. For starters, he claimed that his private army…

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‘Not a very pleasant analogy.’ Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of last week: Kinzhal-Patriot duel, the Roizman verdict and Zelensky’s foreign tour.

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 22 May 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press The drawn-out and exhausting war of attrition in Ukraine continues. The main theatre of military action remains Bakhmut…

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Read more about the article ‘A mixture of anger and despair.’ Ilya Shablinsky on important events of the past week:  Prigozhin’s attacks and which lawyer would best serve the superconservative course in Russia
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‘A mixture of anger and despair.’ Ilya Shablinsky on important events of the past week: Prigozhin’s attacks and which lawyer would best serve the superconservative course in Russia

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 15 May 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press The expected offensive by the Ukrainian armed forces along different sectors of the huge front promised to be…

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Read more about the article Ilya Shablinsky on important events of the past week: What the statement by Russian opposition groups in Berlin means, Prigozhin’s speech in Ukraine, and the charges against dramatists in Moscow [Spektr]
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Ilya Shablinsky on important events of the past week: What the statement by Russian opposition groups in Berlin means, Prigozhin’s speech in Ukraine, and the charges against dramatists in Moscow [Spektr]

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 8 May 2023 By Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.press Representatives of Russian political opposition groups met in Berlin on 30 April – 1 May. They adopted the…

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Read more about the article The Cult of Putin. Why Biden needs a new term and what ideology is being formed in the Kremlin – Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week
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The Cult of Putin. Why Biden needs a new term and what ideology is being formed in the Kremlin – Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week

Photo by Sergei Chugunov I May 2023. by Ilya Shablinsky, legal expert, member of Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Spektr.Press Joseph Biden, the incumbent president of the United States, announced he…

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Read more about the article Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of last week: Pashinyan’s peace proposals, an explosion in Belgorod and Kozlovsky’s cultural demarche
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Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of last week: Pashinyan’s peace proposals, an explosion in Belgorod and Kozlovsky’s cultural demarche

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 24 April2023 By Ilya Shablinsky, legal expert and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Spektr.press The Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, speaking in Parliament on…

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Read more about the article Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week: How the amendments to the law on conscription make Russia similar to Germany in 1936 and what’s important in Prigozhin’s reasoning
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Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week: How the amendments to the law on conscription make Russia similar to Germany in 1936 and what’s important in Prigozhin’s reasoning

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 17 April 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky – legal expert and member of th Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Spektr.Press In Russia, the State Duma passed amendments to…

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