The Russian government likes to regularly accuse the West of being ‘russophobic.’ They’re right, but not for the reasons they think.
In Novosibirsk ‘Orthodox activists’ have declared open war not only on rock fans but on the mayor and governor as well. на русском языке
Russians celebrate National Unity Day on 4 November, but the name masks Russian anxieties about disunity and disintegration.
Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible presents a Russia with no rules and no certainty in tomorrow, a place where you must live in the moment, because the moment is all you have.
On paper, Russia’s new laws on data storage seem to make business impossible for big internet companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and a wider range of online businesses.
Ukraine’s snap parliamentary elections have once again proved that the mainstream of society rejects the far right – not that the Russian government or media will care.
Sanctions have had a limited effect on the Russian population whose support towards the government’s Ukrainian policy does not seem to be eroding.
Putin has successfully managed to persuade his fellow citizens that he and Russia are one and the same. на русском языке
When communism ended, Russia’s people wanted democracy. Instead, they got the market and neoliberalism. Now, it appears, some of them want revenge.
On their TV channels, Ukrainians and Russians have been getting completely different versions of what has been happening in Ukraine in recent months. Just like The Matrix. На русском языке
Moscow's peace march was a demonstration against war, and a declaration of a tacit middle-class war with the Kremlin.
Arming Ukraine will lead to a widening of the conflict, more death and destruction, and a far more aggressive Russian policy.
