Russian politics (English texts)

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

Russia: Moscow terror attack met with repression, racism

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

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

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

Putin's sham victory — the winner fakes it all

The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism

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

Russia: For a Just World/Just Peace Manifesto

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

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

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

Two years of war in Ukraine

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

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

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

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

In Russia, Too, Capital Is Painting Itself Green

Manifesto for Sustainable Peace

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

Unraveling Russian State Anxieties

Alexei Navalny was a Russian hero

Russia: Navalny and Us

Alexei Navalny Taught Russia’s Opposition How to Mobilize

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

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

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

Thousands rally against repression of Russian peace activists

Russia Jails Prominent Bashkir Activist 4 Years

Perspectives on Russian imperialism

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

‘My prisons and the future of Russia’

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

Israel pursuing similar goals to Russia – Lavrov

Ekaterina Duntsova and Russian electoral dictatorship. A Thread

Putin is illegitimate

Putin’s Russia and Peripheral Imperialism

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

Thaw in Russia?

Top Russian Human Rights Defender Faces Prison Term

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

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

UK sanctions Russian intelligence agents for cyber espionage attacks

Traditional Values and Lofty Sentiments

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

Beyond Russia: authoritarian regimes and imperialist aggression

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

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

Vladimir Putin’s killer patriotism

Guns Instead of Butter

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

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

“Action is Easier Than Inaction”

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

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

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

Hate Speech, Part One

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

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

Bath salts, overdoses, and drug mules

Russia: Putin’s ‘Society Of The Spectacle’

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

Naturalized and mobilized

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

I, Vitalyi, Ukrainian socialist activist deported to Russia

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

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

Censoring Russian Rap

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

FAR statement at the Aachen Peace Prize ceremony

Russia: Free Buryatia Foundation declared ‘undesirable’

Russia threatens to annex Georgia’s breakaway regions

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

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

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

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

Russia Targets Activists’ Families as Efforts to Muzzle Dissent Spread

The Kremlin line on the Ukraine war

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

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

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

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

Inside the Wagner Group’s Armed Uprising

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

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

"A simple choice"  Andriy Movtxan

Statement by Russian Socialists Against War

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

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

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

Solidarity needed for Russian anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky

Idiots, No Longer Useful

Russia: Kagarlitsky and Girkin

Criminal case initiated against Russian leftist Boris Kagarlitsky

Desertion and political protest

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

Russia after the Wagner Group Rebellion

Why did Lukashenka invite Wagner rebels to Belarus?

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

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

Leftist Activist, Kremlin Critic Flees Russia After University Firing

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

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

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

The death of nuclear fear

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

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

Britain’s tankies react to Prigozhin’s mutiny

The Split of the Elites and the Question of Expectations

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

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

A Russian leftist deciphers Prigozhin’s failed armed rebellion

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

Russia: The Kayfabe Coup is Under Way

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

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

Russian Anarchists on the Wagner Mutiny

Russian prisoner of Conscience : Igor Kuznetsov

Russia’s war influencers get their audience with Putin

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

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

Russian ‘left’ split over Ukraine war

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

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

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

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

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

DOXA: Russians against dictatorship, inequalities and unjustice

Why Putin is forcing occupied Ukrainians to become Russian citizens

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

It is wrong to say Russians don’t protest

Poland summons Russian ambassador over assassination comment

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

Kremlin influencing anti-war coalition in Germany: report

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

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

What Might This War Do to Russia?

On the debates regarding the “decolonization” of Russia

Is Russia Irredeemable?

Navalny Comes out for Ukraine's 1991 border

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

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

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

“Russia is giving carte blanche to the far right”

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

Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion

Russia-Ukraine: one year of war – the economics

Russia: Memo to activists before 24 February

Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion

We Say: War on War!

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

Queer Tolstoy and anti-authoritarian struggle today

Russia: Feminist Anti-War Resistance abortion rights petition

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

Russia: What kind of decolonization do we need?

Russia: The Collapse of the Vertical

Russia and the threat of the open window

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

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

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

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

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

How Western scholars overlooked Russian imperialism

Turkey reaches out to Assad

Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia

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

Russia: Mikhail Lobanov: Why Police Raided My Home

Russia: The Evolution of Post-Soviet Ideology

Russia. Renaissance is not going to happen

Gathering "peacefully and unarmed" is now forbidden in Russia

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

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

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

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

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

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

About Russian Neo-Imperialism

Russia: ‘Because I struggle, I am innocent’

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

Russia: Combative sisterhood

Russia: Putinism: A New Form of Fascism?

Russia: Are Putin’s views fascist?

Russia: Decision

Russian feminists help men avoid draft

Mobilisation in Russia: a perspective from the Left

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

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

Putin threatens nuclear war

Has Vladimir Putin been outflanked by the Russian far right?

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

Russia: “In Almost Every Village Someone Was Killed”

The Russian people are winning

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

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

On words that do not save lives

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

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

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

War and resistance in Putin’s Russia

Partial Mobilization: Six Stories. Part 1

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

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

Russia: No tears for Dugina

Russia: Conflict & Democracy - Issue #6

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

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

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

From Buryatia to Ukraine and back

Russia intimidates indigenous activists at UN meeting

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

Russian feminists in solidarity

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

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

Who Invented “Historical Russia” and Why?

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

Inside the Russian Resistance Against Putin’s War

Russia: Students against the War. Part One

The Conquest of Ukraine and the History of Russian Imperialism

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

The Fractured Russian Opposition

Russia: Unafraid to Be Called a “National Traitor”

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

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

Grieving for Others, Not for Ourselves

Is Russia forcing people to fight in Ukraine?

The War in Ukraine, International Security, and the Left

Sanctions against Russia: Here is Everything you Need to Know

Russia: a new wave of anti-war protest

FAS–Denazification of the opposition

Refusing to teach how to kill by drone

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

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

Environmental activists in Russia are under increasing pressure

Russian White Guards in the Donbass

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

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

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

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