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Articles with tag "Opposition"

Tver Police Briefly Detain Rassvet Founder Yekaterina Duntsova at Political Prisoner Event

Duntsova, who tried but failed to run against Vladimir Putin in the 2024 presidential election, was taken in for questioning on Thursday night.
Feature

Russia’s Exiled Anti-War Movements Are Learning to Play the Long Game

While grassroots anti-war groups were energized and driven to resist the war at its outset, a litany of challenges has reshaped their work.
5 Min read
opinion Boris Bondarev

Resisting the Kremlin's Communication Crackdown Requires New Thinking

Russia's opposition is falling back on performative tactics that have failed repeatedly. We need to take a new approach.
6 Min read
Feature

‘The Motherland Is Catching Up’: Russians in Kazakhstan Feel Moscow’s Reach in String of Expulsions

Kazakhstan's reputation as a safe haven for Russian exiles has been upended by a string of planned expulsions of dissidents.
6 Min read
News Analysis

Russia’s Opposition Has Representation in PACE. Can They Achieve Anything?

Some hail the group’s existence as a major milestone, while others remain skeptical of what Russia’s fractured opposition can accomplish.
6 Min read

Council of Europe Assembly Approves Candidates for Russian Anti-War Platform

The initiative is intended to give members of the exiled opposition a formal channel to engage with lawmakers from the council’s 46 member states.
3 Min read
opinion Boris Bondarev

The Hollow Core of Russia's Opposition Is Exposed, Again

The Leonid Volkov controversy shows that Russia's opposition has too much in common with the regime they hope to replace.
7 Min read
opinion Valery Panyushkin

Why Won't This Russian Opposition Politician Watch His Language?

Parents teach their children that being rude has consequences. Leonid Volkov's words could land him and the Russian opposition in trouble.
4 Min read
opinion An Anonymous Writer in Russia

The Lessons of the Decembrist Revolt Aren’t What Russia’s Opposition Wants to Hear

Most of Russia’s successful liberal reforms have actually come from an autocratic state trying to reform itself rather than from popular uprisings.
5 Min read

100 Years of Protest Art in Russia: From Tsarism to Putinism

The Artists Against the Kremlin exhibitions, organized by The Moscow Times and the All Rights Reversed gallery at the De Balie art center in Amsterdam...
1 Min read

Belarus Frees Protest Leader, Nobel Laureate in Deal With U.S.

Protest leader Maria Kalesnikava and Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights activist Ales Bialiatski are among the 123 people to walk free in the deal.
2 Min read
opinion Viktoria Maladaeva

Russia's Opposition Is Leaving Indigenous People Behind. We Will Not Remain Silent.

Yulia Navalnaya and her team are continuing their track record of othering and dismissing Russia's Indigenous people.
6 Min read
Feature

Meet the Political Blogger Speaking to Young, Anti-War Russians. His Views Might Surprise You.

Although Alexander Shtefanov opposes both the war and Putin’s government, he often breaks with other exiled anti-war opposition figures.
7 Min read

‘Carousel Arrests’: Inside Russia’s Tactic for Keeping Detainees Locked Up

The St. Petersburg street band Stoptime's members are the latest people to face repeated administrative arrests in Russia.
5 Min read

Russia Adds Former PM Kasyanov to 'Terrorists and Extremists' List

Economist Sergei Guriev and Novaya Gazeta Europe editor-in-chief Kirill Martynov were also added to the list.
2 Min read
Feature

‘Belarus’ Strategic Importance Cannot Be Ignored’: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

The Belarusian opposition leader spoke to MT about Russia’s war, Europe’s fatigue and the future of a nation cut adrift.
11 Min read

Russian Charged With Spying in Poland Admits Passing Data to FSB – Polish Media

Rogov was allegedly blackmailed with the threat of his father being sent to the war in Ukraine if he did not cooperate.
2 Min read
opinion Valery Panyushkin

Meet Russia's Most Harmless Terrorists – The Most Decent People You Could Meet

The FSB has branded the Anti-War Committee a terrorist group.The real threat they pose? Having a conscience.
3 Min read

Hollywood Stars Back Jailed Russian Activist on Hunger Strike

Mikhail Kriger has been on a dry hunger strike for more than a week in protest of his treatment by prison authorities.
2 Min read

Jailed Russian Opposition Activist Mikhail Kriger Declares Hunger Strike

Kriger declared a hunger strike in protest of his repeated placement in solitary confinement.
2 Min read
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