Leonid Nikitinsky: Problematic Confiscations
26 May 2026 Russia’s Prosecutor General on the problems of reutilising the ex-property of corrupt officials By Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya gazeta The Russian state has decided to dig into…
Leonid Nikitinsky: On the law on conscription
11 March 2026 The State Duma will legislate so legal challenges to military conscriptions will not be grounds for its suspension By Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya gazeta A group of…
Leonid Nikitinsky: Quiet down about ‘extremism’
24 December 2025 Did we really see a sensation at the Supreme Court Plenum which has just concluded? by Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya gazeta Another Supreme Court Plenary session –…
Leonid Nikitinsky: The Potato King
8 December 2025 No need to school us Nikitinskys in patriotism by Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya gazeta On 30 October, a conference was held in the house of culture in…
Leonid Nikitinsky: The return of samizdat
1 August 2025 The law ‘on VPNs’ has yet to go into effect, but the Justice Ministry has already added to its list of ‘extremist materials’. And this is probably…
Leonid Nikitinsky: Hatred begets a sentence, and a sentence begets hatred
24 June 2025 by Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya gazeta The State Duma has passed on the second and third reading and the Federation Council has approved the amendments to Article…
Leonid Nikitinsky: In place of an amnesty [Novaya gazeta]
27 February 2025 In the wake of Parliament’s approval of a law on “humanization of pre-trial measures,” it is now proposed that some pretrial detention centres be transferred into the…
Leonid Nikitinsky: The Domestic Front
21 November 2024 The security services’ victory over “traitors” has resulted in the law enforcement system’s complete degeneration into a punitive system by Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya gazeta A system…
Leonid Nikitinsky: Was there a Constitution?
14 October 2024 by Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya gazeta How the Russian regime is actually structured and on what its legitimacy is based My colleague Elena Panfilova suggested carrying out…
Leonid Nikitinsky: The Death Penalty as Sleeping Pill [Novaya gazeta]
25 March 2024 By Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya gazeta It seems that Russia really expects the “return” of the death penalty. How will this be possible and what problems will…
