Putin’s lies to the Russian people about the war in Ukraine, his suppression of civil liberties, and his criminalizing of dissent are strangling Russia. It does not seem extreme to ask, is Russian civil society dead? Russian...
For the Putin regime, the war against the coronavirus pandemic is increasingly analogous to the tsarist regime’s war with Japan in 1904-1905, according to Anatoly Nesmiyan, who blogs under the screen name El Murid. Now as 115 years...
One has the sense, Aleksey Shaburov says, that a new “authoritarian international” is informally taking shape defined by the hostility of authoritarian rulers of the most varied kind of democracy and human rights. This can be...
Assistant to the President of Russia, Yuri Ushakov, recently stated that the summit of leaders of the Normandy format should be carefully prepared in advance to bring results. And warned that would not like to hold a meeting just for the...
The news of the death of another Ukrainian warrior – the victim of a virtual ceasefire between the Ukrainian and Russian forces in the Donbas, announced on July 21 – appears against the backdrop of news no less tragic about a...
Read more: Zelenskyy to form mono coalition and other takeaways of Ukrainian elections How monolithic is Servant of the People? For Zelenskyy to have a chance at authoritarianism, he must have the possibility to push any laws he wants...
But, there is one big difference. In 2010, Viktor Yanukovych usurped the powers of the government. In 2019, the will of the people prevailed, and there was no flagrant usurpation of authority or outright change in the Constitution. In an...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
