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On April 3, Alexander Skobov, 66, a former Soviet political prisoner and one of our authors, was arrested in St. Petersburg. He is accused of “apology of terrorism”.

Interview by Marie Mendras Vladimir Milov is a leading Russian opposition politician, energy expert and adviser to Aleksey Navalny. He was deputy minister of Energy of Russia in 2002. He is the co-author, with Boris Nemtsov et al., of Putin. Corruption (2011), and recently published Why Sino-Russian Economic Cooperation Is...

We publish an interview with Roman Kechur, president of the Ukrainian confederation of psychoanalytic therapies, where he analyzes Vladimir Putin’s behavior from a psychological perspective. “Putin is a colossus on clay feet", says Kechur. “He will still do one or more evil things. People will still continue to die....

For several years, Ukrainian civil society has been protesting against the "Russian" project of a memorial at Babi Yar, a place of Holocaust remembrance, because the idea of this memorial belongs to three Russian billionaires closely linked to Vladimir Putin. But the project has received the approval of the...

While Ukraine mourns the victims of Stalinism, Russia is rehabilitating Stalin. On August 30, mass graves containing the remains of victims of the Great Stalinist Terror were revealed to the journalists in an empty lot near Odessa. Several thousand people had been shot there in the late 1930s. According...

Sergei Medvedev is a Russian scholar, a specialist of the post-Soviet period. In his analysis of Russian society, he uses sociology, geography, literature and cultural anthropology. He won the prestigious Pushkin Book Prize 2020 for his book The Return of the Russian Leviathan, Polity Press, 2019, widely acclaimed in...

Svetlana Gannushkina is one of the most famous Russian human rights activists. For more than thirty years she has dedicated herself to the defense of refugees and migrants. In 1990, she co-founded the Civic Assistance Committee, a migrant aid organization labeled a "foreign agent" by the Putin regime. She...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Eurasianism among Russian political emigrants — a philosophical and political theory that asserts the uniqueness of Russian civilization as belonging neither to Europe nor to Asia and pleading to renounce the European way in favor of integration with the...

Mairbek Vatchagaev is a historian and political analyst with the . He was spokesman for the independent Chechnya president Aslan Maskhadov (elected in 1997 in an OSCE-observed election) and then plenipotentiary representative of the Chechen Republic of Itchkeria in Russia. He lives in France. The presence of Chechens in France...

Interview with world renowned Russian opposition figure Garry Kasparov The Biden-Putin summit, the core nature of Russia’s current regime, corruption among western elites, the fate of Ukraine and Navalny… In his own incisive way, world chess champion Gary Kasparov passes a not very reassuring judgment on the western world and...