Scholar: Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate supports repressions, militarism
It would be comforting to believe that Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin was speaking only for himself when he suggested…
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Chaplin, ‘a Zhirinovsky from the Orthodox Church,’ says mass repressions necessary and reasonable
Mass repressions don’t just start; the groundwork has to be laid in advance. And that task is being…
“Russian troops not terrorists killed Beslan hostages” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
“Reposts are the Soviet anecdotes of today” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Something much worse than Yarovaya Laws is happening in Russia, Shipilov warns
Whenever the Putin regime does something terrible that attracts a great deal of criticism, it is always worthwhile…
Draconian “anti-terrorism” law means Putin preparing for war at home and abroad, Ponomaryov says
Today, the Russian Duma passed in second and third reading the so-called “Yarovaya-Ozerov Law on Terrorism,” a draconian measure…
Soloshenko: What imprisoned Russian army officers told me…
Ukrainian political prisoner Yuriy Soloshenko was released from Russia on June 14. He reports that he met and…
Ringing silence: US sending the wrong signal to peoples of Russia
At a time when Vladimir Putin is suppressing media freedom across his country and Russianizing the media space…
Does the Kremlin fear repeats of 1962 Novocherkassk events – and would it react equally brutally?
Reports that Russian police are training to suppress working class risings appear especially ominous given that they come…
‘Who are the anonymous people terrorizing those who criticize Putin?’
As disturbing as the Putin regime’s abuse of the Russian legal system to go after its online critics,…
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy: We’re plunging straight into hell!
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy was recently arrested in the Moscow metro for tearing down a portrait of Soviet…
Friday May 13th was Putin’s Kristallnacht, Russian political refugee says
Friday May 13th has “every chance to go down in contemporary Russian history as one of the darkest…
Five horrific lessons Kremlin sent Russians with the Vologzheninova case
The sentencing of Ekaterina Vologzheninova for reposting materials against Russian aggression in Ukraine to 320 hours of…
Kadyrov, Putin and the desensitization of Russia
Each day seems to bring a fresh outrage from Ramzan Kadyrov, Vladimir Putin and their ilk, an outrage…
Ever more Russians are at risk of repression as Putin’s Russia heads toward totalitarianism
There is an old observation that in a democracy, anything that isn’t prohibited is permitted; in an authoritarian…
Putin now using FSB to intimidate journalists into not covering his opponents
In the age of the Internet, it isn’t enough for an authoritarian ruler to control what appears in…
Human rights activist: ‘Absurd’ application of extremism laws in Russia today threatens everyone
Aleksandr Verkhovsky of the SOVA human rights monitoring organization says that the Ukrainian crisis and competition among Russian…
Kremlin courts prosecute political refugees in absentia
Political emigres have long played a much greater role in Russia and especially in Russian thinking than in…