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From Stalin’s era to today: snitching returns to shape Russia’s political landscape
In Russia, snitching is on the rise again, with individuals like Anna Korobkova proud of filing over 1,300 denunciations since Russia's full-scale invasion began.
Ukrainian boy nearly killed by Russian-speaking attacker in Germany for speaking Ukrainian
A Russian-speaking man faces attempted murder charge for attacking Ukrainian children in Germany.
Most Russians want Putin to stay in power – poll
Almost 70% of Russians will support Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the next presidential election in March 2024,…
What the German peacemakers do not understand about Ukraine and Russia
The city of Osnabrück honors the Ukrainian artist Sergiy Maidukov with the Erich Maria Remarque Prize. It does…
Getting rid of dictatorship in Russia may not stop war against Ukraine, Pastukhov says
Many analysts are inclined to explain the vitality of Putinism and Russian support for his war in Ukraine…
Most Russians increasingly optimistic about what war in Ukraine says about Russia’s future, Levinson says
A new Levada Center survey shows that the percentage of Russians who think the country is on the…
Even ‘good Russians’ should stop being invited to discussions about Ukraine and, if invited, should shut up, ‘Grani’ editors say
A month ago, Olha Rudenko, editor of The Kyiv Independent, posted on Facebook a comment about an unfortunate…
For Russians, their war in Ukraine is still ‘a TV war’ not directly involving them, Fedorov says
Today what is happening in Ukraine is for most Russians “’a special operation on television,’” VTsIOM director Valery…
All surveys since start of Ukrainian war show Putin’s standing among Russians up, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ reports
Despite the warnings of some commentators and the expectations of others, all polls conducted since Russian forces invaded…
Russia’s war against Ukraine isn’t a “real” war, most Russians think
Russians are against war, something they understand as a major war involving the West; but with regard to…
Protests against war in Ukraine spread across Russia
As is invariably the case, anti-war actions in Moscow have attracted the most attention not only because of…
“Nobody asked us” – Russian intellectuals rebuke Putin’s policy of war against Ukraine
On 30 January 2022, the Russian website Echo of Moscow published an open letter from the Russian Congress…
30 years on, only one Russian in 100 connects USSR with Red Terror, shootings and GULAG
Given Vladimir Putin’s obsession with the Soviet Union whose demise he regularly calls “the greatest geopolitical disaster” of…
For four reasons, Russian economy on the brink of panic, Shelin says
For four reasons, the Russian economy is on the brink of panic, something that threatens stock prices, ruble…
Russia returning to Sovietism not because of the dictatorship but because most Russians like it, Vitukhnovskaya says
The passive aggressive nature of a significant portion of Russian society is the reason that the country has…
In 1991 Russia, ‘no one was ready for democracy or really wanted it’ and not much has changed, Lev Gudkov says
In an interview with Vienna’s Die Presse, the Russian sociologist and pollster says that initially it appeared young…
Russia resembles a cemetery through which an armed man is walking, Martynov says
The political editor of Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta says that young Russians have now been confronted with a…
Putin better reflects underlying Russian values than does the opposition and his system will thus outlast both, Pastukhov says
That makes him successful at retaining power, the London-based Russian analyst says, especially since the opposition refuses to…
Russia didn’t ‘feed’ the USSR: the entire USSR ‘fed’ the nomenklatura, Mirovich says
One of the most widespread myths in Russia today is that in Soviet times, Russia took care of…
Conflict over Crimea between two peoples, not just two states, Portnikov says
When the history of the 21st century is written, Vitaly Portnikov says, Russia’s occupation of Crimea “beyond any…