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Russian politics (English texts)

Russian anti-war prisoner Igor Paskar: ‘I acted according to my conscience’

Solidarity Zone

Should Ukraine Have Nuclear Weapons?

Slavoj Žižek

*Russia-Ukraine: Who Won and Who Lost?**

Ilya Matveev, Translated from Russian by Adam Novak

The BRICS summit in Russia offers no alternative

 Eric Toussaint, Translated by Sushovan Dhar

Russian Women Political Prisoners. A System of Violence

Fikus

"Desertion is a political act." Should Russians escaping the army be seen as victims of the war in Ukraine?

Amalia Zatari.

Anti-War Protests and Resistance in Russia

Ivan Astashin

The ‘two logics’ of imperialism

Ilya Matveev, Federico Fuentes

Political imperialism, Putin’s Russia, and the need for a global left alternative: Interview with Ilya Matveev

Ilya Matveev & Federico Fuentes

‘They want total control’: how Russia is forcing Sami people to hide their identity

Miranda Bryant 

Dangerous liaisons: New details of Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka’s espionage for Russia

Christo Grozev,Michael Weiss,Inga Spriņģe

How Patrushev’s Paranoia Consumed the Kremlin

 Ilya Matveev

Without Ukraine, there would have been no victory. What exactly is Russia’s lie regarding World War II?

Yana Prymachenko

III / The war in Ukraine and Russian capital: From military-economic to full military imperialism

Ilya Matveev 

Ukraine embraces far-right Russian ‘bad guy’ to take the battle to Putin

JAMIE DETTMER

THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH DECLARES “HOLY WAR” AGAINST UKRAINE AND ARTICULATES TENETS OF RUSSIA’S EMERGING OFFICIAL NATIONALIST IDEOLOGY

Riley Bailey, Christina Harward, Angelica Evans, and George Barros

The War and Loyalist Protest

Alexander Finiarel’

Russia: Moscow terror attack met with repression, racism

Federico Fuentes

ISIS-K’s sworn enemy What does the Islamic State branch claiming responsibility for the Moscow terrorist attack have against Russia?

Meduza

Russia lauding torture was unthinkable – now it is proud to do so

Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer

Terrorist Attack and Election Pave Way for Putin to Intensify Repression and War

Ashley Smith, Ilya Budraitskis

Putin's sham victory — the winner fakes it all

Donnacha Ó Beacháin

The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism

Dmitri Levitin

‘Indifference’ and ‘Anger’ Guide Voter Choice in Russia’s Ethnic Republics

Leyla Latypova

Russia: For a Just World/Just Peace Manifesto

Справедливый мир campaign

Russian socialist Mikhail Lobanov: ‘We are sure that at this “election”, millions will cast a protest vote’

Mikhail Lobanov Federico Fuentes

Russian leftists are planning to disrupt Putin’s fake presidential election this weekend

Mikhail Lobanov Federico Fuentes

Putin’s plebiscite, Russia’s “Left” & Russia’s Left

Ernest Reid

Artdocfest is a crucial outpost of free expression on Russia’s doorstep

Jeremy Hicks

Breaking Down Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election

DANIIL SAPUNKOV

Two years of war in Ukraine

Christos Kefalis

‘They could start to resist’ How the Russian authorities are working to indoctrinate and digitally surveil deported Ukrainian children

Meduza.io

Statement on the announcement by the Russian Federation that IndustriALL Global Union is an “undesirable organization”

IndustriAll Global Union

Not Russians’ ‘little brother’ anymore Russia’s decolonial movement banks on interethnic solidarity in its fight against the Kremlin

Story by Leyla Latypova for The Beet. Edited by Eilish Hart.

A Russian socialist explains why Putin killed Alexei Navalny and jailed Boris Kagarlitsky

Kirill Medvedev Federico Fuentes

In Russia, Too, Capital Is Painting Itself Green

Victoria Myznikova

Manifesto for Sustainable Peace

Collective

2 Years Into Ukraine War, Russia’s Ethnic Minorities Disproportionately Killed in Battle

Leyla Latypova

Unraveling Russian State Anxieties

Hanna Perekhoda

A revolution in Russia is possible

Mikhail Lobanov

Alexei Navalny was a Russian hero

Ilya Matveev

Russia: Navalny and Us

Grusha Gilayeva

Alexei Navalny Taught Russia’s Opposition How to Mobilize

Ilya Budraitskis

When a day lasts a year. Reflecting on the Bucha massacre two years later

Volodymyr Molodii

EU: What everyone needs to know about Putin’s interview and why ideology matters

Hanna Perekhoda

‘I no longer have a country’: Antiwar Russians who fled unlikely to return

Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska

Europe: Halt returns of people from the North Caucasus to Russia where they are at risk of torture and abuse

Amnesty International

Thousands rally against repression of Russian peace activists

Anton Gerashchenko

Russia Jails Prominent Bashkir Activist 4 Years

Leyla Latypova

Perspectives on Russian imperialism

Ilya Budraitskis

Calling for an End to War Is Not the Same as Calling for Peace

Oleksa Drachewych

‘My prisons and the future of Russia’

Yurii Colombo, Boris Kagarlitsky

St. Petersburg police reportedly arrest thousands of migrants, pressure them into signing Russian army contracts

Meduza.io

Israel pursuing similar goals to Russia – Lavrov

RT News

Ekaterina Duntsova and Russian electoral dictatorship. A Thread

Ilya Matveev

Putin is illegitimate

Declaration Russian Democratic Forces, Collective

Putin’s Russia and Peripheral Imperialism

Anatoly Kropivnitskyi

Protests by Soldiers’ Wives in Russia Show How an Antiwar Movement Can Grow There

Kirill Medvedev

Thaw in Russia?

Russian Socialist Movement

Top Russian Human Rights Defender Faces Prison Term

Tanya Lokshina

Russian oligarch’s book offers a revolution the people can’t take part in

Nikolay Andreev

Trade unions condemn criminalisation of LGBTIQ+ people and activists in Russia

European Public Service Union

UK sanctions Russian intelligence agents for cyber espionage attacks

Paul Mason

Traditional Values and Lofty Sentiments

Marina Simakova

How Putin is reshaping Russia to keep his war-machine running

The Economist

Beyond Russia: authoritarian regimes and imperialist aggression

Kateryna Turenko

Most Russians back war in Ukraine and buy Putin’s case for it, report says

Robyn Dixon

Most Russians back war in Ukraine and buy Putin’s case for it, report says

Robyn Dixon

Vladimir Putin’s killer patriotism

Nina L Khrushcheva

Guns Instead of Butter

Nikolay Sukhanov

Ukrainian Travelers of the Past: scientific discoveries and criticism of imperial Russia

Tetyana Savchenko

Russia’s Slaughter of Indigenous People in Alaska Tells Us Something Important About Ukraine

Casey Michel

Russia: 'Cultural Pogrom': Putin's St. Petersburg Alma Mater Purges Dissident Students, Faculty

Robert Coalson

“Action is Easier Than Inaction”

Posle

Russia convicts, but refrains from imprisoning, Memorial Co-Chair for criticism of its war against Ukraine

Halya Coynash

‘Thirty years down the line, we’re back in “1984”’

Oleg Orlov

«Тhere is still hope for Russia» — Ilya Yashin writes from prison

Ilya Yashin

Hate Speech, Part One

Michele A. Berdy

Explainer: What Does Russia’s Exit From the Convention on National Minorities Mean?

Leyla Latypova

The army of marauders: where Russian soldiers’ habit of looting comes from

Roman Ponomarenko

Court in Russia imposes massive fine for criticizing Stalin and telling the truth about Soviet collaboration with Nazi Germany

Halya Coynash

Bath salts, overdoses, and drug mules

Verstka

Russia: Putin’s ‘Society Of The Spectacle’

Ilya Budraitskis

Russian Media Rhetoric Could Be 'Incitement to Genocide' – UN

AFP

Naturalized and mobilized

Sher Khashimov

Russian migration during the war in Ukraine: reality and challenges in the host countries

Nino Chanadiri

I, Vitalyi, Ukrainian socialist activist deported to Russia

Patrick Le Tréhondat Vitaliy

Ukrainian & Russian Activists on How Putin’s War Emboldens “Authoritarian Forces” Around the World

Hanna Perekhoda Ilya Budraitskis Nermeen Shaikh

In Russia, the mathematician Azat Miftakhov released then immediately targets new charges

Benoît Vitkine

Censoring Russian Rap

John Vandevert

Caution and embrace: How Europeans should treat exiles from Putin’s Russia

Kadri Liik

FAR statement at the Aachen Peace Prize ceremony

Feminist Anti-War Resistance

Russia: Free Buryatia Foundation declared ‘undesirable’

RIA Novosti

Russia threatens to annex Georgia’s breakaway regions

Claudia Chiappa

“If we want to understand the far right in the 21st century, we have to look at Russia”

Radar Internacional Ilya Budraitskis

Ilya Budraitskis: ’Repression is structural, no one in Russia can say they are safe’

Francesco Brusa Ilya Budraitskis

The Global South’s Views on Ukraine Are More Complex Than You May Think

Michael Karadjis

Russia’s new history textbooks teach Putin’s alternate reality

Mary Ilyushina

Russia Targets Activists’ Families as Efforts to Muzzle Dissent Spread

Leyla Latypova

The Kremlin line on the Ukraine war

Dale Street

Interview with Mikhail Lobanov: “Soon the moment will come when we will change everything”.

September.media Mikhail Lobanov

The Persecution of Azat Miftakhov Is Designed to Silence Russia’s Left

Kirill Medvedev

‘Nobody in Russia believes that he or she can influence any events’

Greg Yudin Julika Luisa Enbergs

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

Danila Galperovich Aleksandr Cherkasov

Inside the Wagner Group’s Armed Uprising

Joshua Yaffa

Russia: Igor Girkin/Strelkov: when the radical becomes too radical

Joshua Kroeker

Russia: Why is it important to express solidarity with Boris Kagarlitsky

Russian Socialist Movement

"A simple choice"  Andriy Movtxan

Andriy Movchan

Statement by Russian Socialists Against War

Russian Socialists Against War

‘Nazi satanists are entrenched in the holy Russian city of Kyiv’

Andrey Pertsev

RSD: We are calling for an international campaign to support Boris Kagarlitsky

Russian Socialist Movement (RSD)

Why (and how) to campaign for the liberation of Boris Kagarlitsky

Vincent Présumey

Solidarity needed for Russian anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky

Federico Fuentes

Idiots, No Longer Useful

Boris Kagarlitsky

Russia: Kagarlitsky and Girkin

Vladyslav Starodubtsev

Criminal case initiated against Russian leftist Boris Kagarlitsky

Russian Socialist Movement

Desertion and political protest

Konstantin Pakhalyuk

Interview with Jade McGlynn | “Russians cannot perpetuate their myth of Russia if they lose control over Ukraine”

Oleksandr Pankieiev Jade McGlynn

Russia after the Wagner Group Rebellion

Lutz Brangsch

Why did Lukashenka invite Wagner rebels to Belarus?

Igor Ilyash

Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more

Lori Hinnant Hanna Arhirova Vasilisa Stepanenko

Russia: Wagner armed rebellion an inflection point in Putin’s war

Israel Dutra Federico Fuentes

Leftist Activist, Kremlin Critic Flees Russia After University Firing

The Moscow Times

'Weapons of the Weak': Why Does the Russian Opposition Need a Feminist Lens?

Alexandra Talaver

Russian socialist Ilya Matveev: ‘Prigozhin’s coup attempt has exposed Putin’s vulnerability’

Ilya Matveev Federico Fuentes

‘I have no fear and no hope’: Why Russians are returning to Russia

Ksenia Babich

The death of nuclear fear

Meduza

In Russia, has the fairytale author-turned-warlord just saved the king?

Alexander Bikbov

Russian Progressives and Antiwar Forces May Find Opening in Wake of Failed Coup

Ashley Smith Ilya Budraitskis

Britain’s tankies react to Prigozhin’s mutiny

Paul Mason

The Split of the Elites and the Question of Expectations

Ilya Matveev

View from Kyiv: What Does the Wagner Revolt Mean for Ukraine, Mali, Sudan, Syria & Beyond?

Amy Goodman Denis Pilash

Russia: Prigozhin’s coup attempt exposes Putin’s vulnerability

Maxim Trudolyubov

A Russian leftist deciphers Prigozhin’s failed armed rebellion

Federico Fuentes Alexandr Zamyatin

“Prigozhin’s March”: What Was It All About?

Posle

Russia: The Kayfabe Coup is Under Way

Paul Mason

Time to Leave the Shadows: #NoToWar Statement On the Prigozhin Coup

Left East

FAR statement on the military coup and the situation in the country

Feminist Anti-War Resistance (London)

Russian Anarchists on the Wagner Mutiny

Collective

Russian prisoner of Conscience : Igor Kuznetsov

Andrij Zdorov

Russia’s war influencers get their audience with Putin

Konstantin Pakhaliuk

They Were Nursing Home Residents In Ukraine. Then The War Began

Anna Conkling

“What did each of us do to stop this nightmare?”

Igor Paskar

Russian ‘left’ split over Ukraine war

Ilya Budraitkis

Nine Months in a Juvenile Shelter. Musician David's story about Deportation to Russia

Сollective TSVIRIN Truffikss Ptichka

Who are the far-right Russian groups fighting on Ukraine’s side?

Andrei Rykov

From fights with Nazis to a split due to the war. The story of antifa in Russia

Yana Sakhipova

‘I prayed I wouldn’t be next’ The secretive prisons where Russia hides and tortures Ukrainian civilians

Meduza

Boris Kagarlitsky (Russia): A plea to my Western progressive friends — Stop helping Putin with your conciliatory and ambiguous statements

Boris Kagarlitsky

DOXA: Russians against dictatorship, inequalities and unjustice

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat

Why Putin is forcing occupied Ukrainians to become Russian citizens

Pavlo Lysianskyi

Ultra left-wing Russian activist who fought on the side of Ukraine killed in Bakhmut

Veniamin Volin

It is wrong to say Russians don’t protest

Dan Storyev

Poland summons Russian ambassador over assassination comment

Vanessa Gera

‘This regime is not subject to evolution’ an interview with Ilya Budraitskis

Ilya Budraitskis Meduza

Kremlin influencing anti-war coalition in Germany: report

Zac Crellin

Russian refugees speak at meeting at Berkeley: Was/Is Trump in Putin’s pocket?

Oakland Socialist

This Moscow military museum blurs history and propaganda. We visited it

Volodya Vagner

What Might This War Do to Russia?

John-Paul Himka

On the debates regarding the “decolonization” of Russia

Ilya Budraitskis

Is Russia Irredeemable?

John-Paul Himka

Navalny Comes out for Ukraine's 1991 border

Michael Baker

On the Anniversary of Russia’s War on Ukraine: Analyzing the Roots of Russian Imperialism

Dan La Botz

Full-scale freedom to Ukraine: A statement from Russian anti-war activists and their allies on the anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Collective

‘Russia ends nowhere,’ they say Sociologist Grigory Yudin discusses a year of war and what comes next

Margarita Liutova Grigory Yudin

“Russia is giving carte blanche to the far right”

Sergey Movchan Alexander Tushkin

Intervening to Undermine Democracy in Africa: Russia’s Playbook for Influence

Joseph Siegle

Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion

Andreu Movtxan

Russia-Ukraine: one year of war – the economics

Michael Roberts

Russia: Memo to activists before 24 February

FAS

Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion

Andriy Movchan

We Say: War on War!

Russian Socialist Movement (immigrant section)

We Say: War on War! Russian socialists on the nature of the war in Ukraine and the delusions of Western “pacifists”

Anonymous

Queer Tolstoy and anti-authoritarian struggle today

Javier Sethness Castro

Russia: Feminist Anti-War Resistance abortion rights petition

Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)

Christian Zeller: ‘Ukrainian resistance has forced Germany to reconfigure its position towards Russia’

Christian Zeller Federico Fuentes

Russia: What kind of decolonization do we need?

Ilya Budraitskis

Russia: The Collapse of the Vertical

Oleg Sheyn

Russia and the threat of the open window

Tom Harrison

Hi, I am one of the many FAS activists who continue to resist while in Russia, and I would like to speak on my anonymous behalf about our horizontality

Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)

Nobel Peace Prize winner Alexander Cherkasov: ‘The history of post-Soviet Russia is a chain of wars, crimes and impunity’

Gonzalo Moncloa Allison

Russia: ‘I sacrificed myself to the regime, but I am not a terrorist’

Solidarity Zone

Ukrainian works of literature and history banned as ‘extremist’ in Russian occupied Luhansk oblast

Halya Coynash

Russia: Where the “Motherland” Calls: From Gender Mythology to Political Action

Asya Neverova

How Western scholars overlooked Russian imperialism

Botakoz Kassymbekova

Turkey reaches out to Assad

Simon Nelson

Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia

Ashley Smith Ivan Ovsyannikov

An administrative case was brought against a Karelian deputy for calling to spend money on schools rather than on the war

Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)

Russia: Mikhail Lobanov: Why Police Raided My Home

Mikhail Lobanov

Russia: The Evolution of Post-Soviet Ideology

Arseniy Krasnikov

Russia. Renaissance is not going to happen

Simon Pirani

Gathering "peacefully and unarmed" is now forbidden in Russia

Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)

Russian society after nine months of war: from indifference to resistance [video]

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat Felix Levin

More than 13,000 military personnel from Buryatia may be at war in Ukraine

Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS

How Russia’s loyal ‘opposition’ parties support the war against Ukraine

Simon Pirani

Russia: Abolition culture: the play Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes was withdrawn because of the author's anti-war stance

Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)

Russia: The security services will monitor the world view of citizens

Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS

Feminist Anti-war Resistance: Russia is no alternative to Western imperialism

Feminist anti-war Resistance (FAS)

About Russian Neo-Imperialism

Bernd Gehrke

Russia: ‘Because I struggle, I am innocent’

Xerta Nadezhda Nizovkina

Music and the USSR: Two Poles of Nostalgia for the Soviet era?

Ivan Beletsky

Russia: Combative sisterhood

Ella Rossman (Feminist Anti-War Alliance)

Russia: Putinism: A New Form of Fascism?

Ilya Budraitskis

Russia: Are Putin’s views fascist?

Mansur Mirovalev

Russia: Decision

Konstantin Kharitonov

Russian feminists help men avoid draft

Irina Chevtayeva

Mobilisation in Russia: a perspective from the Left

LeftEast “Nevoina” (“No(to)war”)

How Russian propaganda works, what vision of reality it tries to impose, and why its isolated successes cannot mask the many vulnerabilities

Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS

Two Voices from Russia & Ukraine on Putin, Resistance Inside Russia & Their Views on Anti-Imperialism

Amy Goodman Hanna Perekhoda Nermeen Shaikh Arshak Makichyan

Putin threatens nuclear war

Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL)

Has Vladimir Putin been outflanked by the Russian far right?

Jules Sergei Fediunin

Russia: How to talk to loved ones who believe the propaganda?

FAS

Russia: “In Almost Every Village Someone Was Killed”

Saida Sirazhudinova Khazbi Budunov

The Russian people are winning

Eric Lee

Resistance inside Putin’s Russia: an interview with Ilya Budraitskis

Eleanor Morley Ilya Budraitskis

About 700,000 people have left Russia in two weeks of mobilisation

Ukrainska Pravda

On words that do not save lives

Nikita Kadan

Putin accuses the West of ‘Satanism’ to justify Russia’s colonial theft of 15 percent of Ukraine

Michael Karadjis

Putinism is like fascism. Why and why it is necessary to say this today

Ilya Budraitskis

For Vladimir Putin, Russia’s future is North Korea-lite

Jeremy Morris

War and resistance in Putin’s Russia

Ilya Budraitskis Ashley Smith

Partial Mobilization: Six Stories. Part 1

Posle

What’s the future of Russia’s Ukraine war?

Volodymyr Artiukh

Russia: “Putin Doesn’t Know Any War Except Class War”

Posle Mikhail Lobanov Aleksandra Zapolski

Russia: No tears for Dugina

Dale Street

Russia: Conflict & Democracy - Issue #6

Paul Mason

Russia: Being an Antifa: On Anti-Fascist Activism and Its Fate

Posle

Russian anti-war socialist: ‘Putin cannot tolerate an independent Ukraine’

Federico Fuentes Ilya Matveev

Russian socialist Ilya Matveev: ‘Putin’s war on Ukraine is not about security, it is about imperialist interests’

Ilya Matveev Federico Fuentes

From Buryatia to Ukraine and back

FBF

Russia intimidates indigenous activists at UN meeting

FAS

Ukraine: Desperate for Recruits, Russia Launches a ‘Stealth Mobilization’

Neil MacFarquhar

Russian feminists in solidarity

FAS

How Solntsepyok, a brutal 2021 propaganda film, primed Russians for war with Ukraine

Greg Dolgopolov

Does Ukraine Need Russian Culture to Win the War Against Russia?

Irina Zherebkina

Who Invented “Historical Russia” and Why?

Andrey Oleynikov

'Russia needs to be defeated': Russian socialists in exile say Putin has to be defeated in Ukraine

Charles R. Davis

Inside the Russian Resistance Against Putin’s War

Ashley Smith

Russia: Students against the War. Part One

Posle All-Russia Initiative PhysTech Against War Viatka Whispers Groza Media Tyumen State University Initiative Group

The Conquest of Ukraine and the History of Russian Imperialism

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski

As Russian anti-war sentiment grows, will Ukraine be Putin’s Vietnam?

Dick Nichols

The Fractured Russian Opposition

Naomi Cohen Ilya Budraitskis

Russia: Unafraid to Be Called a “National Traitor”

Andrei Movchan

Russia’s War on Ukraine: Imperial Ideology or Class Interest?

Volodymyr Ishchenko Ilya Matveev

Interview with the Russian Socialist Movement: The Revolutionary Left in Russia on the Resistance behind Putin's Front

RSD João Woyzeck

Grieving for Others, Not for Ourselves

Irina Zherebkina ПОСЛЕ МЕДИА

Is Russia forcing people to fight in Ukraine?

Editors Of ODR

The War in Ukraine, International Security, and the Left

Taras Bilous

Sanctions against Russia: Here is Everything you Need to Know

Ilya Matveev

Russia: a new wave of anti-war protest

Simon Pirani

FAS–Denazification of the opposition

Green Left

Refusing to teach how to kill by drone

FAS (#voices_of_russians_ok)

What the Left’s fight for worker rights in Ukraine and Russia has in common, and what it does not

Jeremy Morris

Lessons in patriotism used to justify Ukraine invasion to Russia’s children

Andrew Roth

Environmental activists in Russia are under increasing pressure

Estelle Levresse

Russian White Guards in the Donbass

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski

Ilya Matveev: A Word to the Wise (On Putin’s “Leftism” and Solidarity with Russians)

Ilya Matveev

Russia: “Stop the War” Means “Death to the Dictatorship”

Russian Socialist Movement

The war in Ukraine and Russian capital: From military-economic to full military imperialism

Ilya Matveev

The disastrous state of the Russian army, a faithful reflection of the perversions of the dying Putinism

Yorgos Mitralias