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opinion Alexander Etkind

To Everything There Is a Season: Fantasia on the Federation's Dissolution

Cultural historian Alexander Etkind's fantasia on the war and what might come of it.
Maria Rakhmaninova

An Old Soviet Tradition Makes a Comeback: The Denunciation

Denunciations, so deadly during the Soviet period, are part of daily life in Russia today.
Pyotr Topychkanov

Could Russia Use the Nuclear Option?

Pyotr Topychkanov explains Russian military theory and under what conditions nuclear arms might be used.
Yevgenia Albats

What the People Say: Yevgenia Albats Goes on the Road

What do "average" Russians think about the war and why? Yevgenia Albats got in her car and found out.
Rev. John Chryssavgis

The Orthodox Church Is on the Wrong Side of History

Perhaps Orthodox Christians should confess that the church consistently rejects freedom and democracy.
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

Putin Pulls Russian Spy Agency Out of Ukraine

All signs point to continued infighting among the Russian security organizations, the siloviki.
Gennady Burbulis

In Memory of Stanislav Shushkevich

Burbulis and Shushkevich were two of the writers and signatories to the documents that dissolved the U.S.S.R.
Philip Boobbyer

Russian Dissent Then and Now: 'For Your Freedom and Ours'

The Russian student journalists sentenced in April 2022 have much in common with the dissidents sentenced in 1968.
Yevgenia Albats

A Heart-to-Heart With Russia's Elites

When will they realize that the life they have built for themselves and their children is over?
Mark Galeotti

Russia’s Hardliners Present Their Manifesto

If head of Russian security council Nikolai Patrushev has his way, what will Russia become?
Vladislav Inozemtsev

Sanction the Right People in Russia

The people who proclaim themselves to be the authors of the "Putin Doctrine" remain untouched by Western sanctions.
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

Vicious Blame Game Erupts Among Putin’s Security Forces

Russian security institutions have begun to point fingers at one another over failures in the war on Ukraine.
Maxim Trudolyubov

Russia's Catastrophic Geopolitics

A toxic mix of early 20th-century geopolitics and historical ressentiment has become Russia’s ideology.
Marina Vasilieva

Where Do the Rapists and Murderers in Ukraine Come From?

The violence and brutality in Ukraine are continuations of the violence and brutality in Russia.
Aaron Rhodes

Human Rights Activists Call For Indictment of Russian Patriarch Kirill

Activists call for the patriarch to be to be prosecuted "for inspiring, inciting, justifying, aiding and abetting war crimes."
Mikhail Pirogovsky

The Four Russias and Ukraine

What do Russians really think about the war?
Elena Kostyuchenko

'You Didn't Know That Russia is Fascist?'

Journalist Elena Kostyuchenko responds to what another Russian journalist wrote when he left Russia.
Nigel Gould-Davies

The Strategic Meaning of Russian War Crimes in Ukraine

War crimes have strategic consequences that will shape the course of the war.
Farida Rustamova

Supporting Independent Journalists Has Never Been More Important

Independent journalists have almost ceased to exist in Russia.
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