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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Crushing the defence: Ilya Shablinsky on how the jailing of Aleksei Navalny’s lawyers can be likened to the repressions under Stalin and the Third Reich

19 October 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: spektr.press  This is something we truly haven't witnessed since the early days of the Soviet Union. Three lawyers - who were defending a…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Peacemakers line up at the Kremlin Gates

29 May 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV How do we stop Russia’s war against Ukraine? This topic has become fashionable in international relations. Just who hasn’t signed up to…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: ‘One percent’ for the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin makes its repressive apparatus official

22 May 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV The Russian regime is making political and legislative efforts to construct a state system that is based on a unified ideology and,…

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Aleksandr Daniel: ‘Today’s opposition is much larger than in the Soviet era’ 

16 May 2023 an interview with Aleksandr Daniel - by Zoya SvetovaSource: Perm Centre for Historical Memory [original source: Novaya gazeta] Can we compare present-day dissidents with Soviet dissidents? What…

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This time, though, we are leaving something else—a piece from our (now seized) office with the Memorial logo.

Katyn: April 2023

11 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory Every April we try to go to the Katyn memorial complex in Smolensk Oblast to remember the Polish prisoners of war…

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Russia’s Informers. A discussion with Sergei Medvedev, Olga Romanova and Aleksandr Cherkasov [Radio Svoboda]

26 April 2023 Olga Romanova and Aleksandr Cherkasov on how the culture of denunciation has been reborn in Russia Source: Radio Svoboda Sergei Medvedev: In a year of war, denunciation culture…

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Lev Shlosberg: The collapse of the state begins with its alienation from the individual

13 April 2023 Lev Shlosberg, chairman of the Pskov Regional Branch of the Yabloko party, historian, journalist and holder of a Moscow Helsinki Group award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group For…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Great Terror Lite

12 April 2023 By Aleksandr Podrabinek   Source: Vot-Tak.TV With the beginning of the war against Ukraine, the moderately severe authoritarian dictatorship in Russia began swiftly transforming itself into a merciless…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: On the thirst for peace and the Moloch of dictatorship

3 April 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda "We need world peace!" - Soviet leaders loudly proclaimed in their day, while evil tongues added: "But mostly, we want the…

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