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The Communist Menace The "communist menace" just ain't what it used to be....

#communist menace #David A. Bell #democratic socialism #Donald Trump #Heather Cox Richardson #historical revisionism #ideological diversity #textbook wars #Vladimir Medinsky #white supremacy

The Bulwark Stands in Solidarity with Haitian Refugees Despite (or maybe even because of) my own leftist sympathies, I'm a proud subscriber and reader of the Bulwark, an online publication anchored by "recanted" (?) neocons like Bill Kristol. The younger me would have wondered how such an unbelievable thing could have come to pass, but I would explain to him that we need a united front against fascism right now, and the Bulwarkers, Kristol included, are quite explicitly, vocally, and usefully part of that front....

#asylum seekers #Haitian refugees #migrantophobia #Mullin v. Doe #Springfield (Ohio #temporary protected status #The Bulwark #US Supreme Court #William Kristol #xenophobia

The Dyatlov Pass Incident Down Under with a Bullet "Hey, Barry, you ever heard of the word 'muzjik'?"...

#"The Killings at Parrish Station" (TV series #Australian television #Ben Jenkins #Broken Hill #Dyatlov Pass incident #hypercorrection #Mia Wasikowska #mujzik

Sasha Razor: Who Burns the Lavra? Who is responsible for Monday's heavy missile and drone barrage on Ukraine, which set ablaze one of the holiest sites in Eastern Orthodoxy, destroyed Ukraine's oldest and largest costume archive, killed eleven people, and wounded fifty others? asks Sasha Razor in a provocative essay....

#collective guilt #collective responsibility #Dormition Cathedral (Kyiv #drone strikes #Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra #Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio #Russian invasion of Ukraine #Sasha Razor

A Monterey Story: The Answer Hanging out with Robin Jeffers in downtown Monterey.... https://therussianreader.com/2026/06/14/2840/

#"The Answer" (poem #Monterey (California #Monterey Conference Center #public art #Robinson Jeffers #Viktor Postnikov

Postscript to Russian Reader No. 2829: “Somalis Who Work” "Somalis who work instead of living off welfare are not a horror story, but a fantasy!"...

#"The Passenger" (film #anti-Black racism #Minneapolis #Russian racism #Somali-Americans

The Podcast The Russian Reader ("where the news arrives already wearing its funeral clothes") plunges into the red-hot, psychotic abyss of AI with help from its new glib podcast robots Axel and Mara, as well as Dmitrii Volkov, Elizaveta Osetinskaya, Palisade Research, Daniel Kokotajlo, Radio 4, Robert Edward Grant, the Architect, Geoffrey Hill, and Thom Gunn....

#AI psychosis #artificial intelligence #artificial superintelligence #BBC Radio 4 #Daniel Kokotajlo #digital mental health #Dmitrii Volkov #Elizaveta Osetinskaya #Geoffrey Hill #James Dobbyn #Kent #large language models #Malin Hay #Palisade Research #Robert Edward Grant #The Architect #Thom Gunn

A Mind of Winter One must have a mind of winter (and lot of warm clothes) to survive in Yakutsk and a dying Siberian village....

#"The Snow Man&039; (poem #Detsl (Russian rapper #extreme cold #Siberia #Wallace Stevens #Yakutsk

On This Day

Six snapshots of what the Russian Reader was reading on May 27 in years past. 2024 “It’s Showtime”: Open Space Moscow vs. SERB. Open Space is a project that supports grassroots activists. It has two sites, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, with co-working spaces, a human rights center, and a psychological center. The Moscow site is at odds with the pro-government movement SERB, known for its…

#"On This Day&quot #2018 World Cup #Astrakhan Kazakhs #Daria Serenko #Open Space (Moscow #Russian police state

Something I Learned Today: Somewhere Far Away

Kurara, “Somewhere Far Away” (2024) Even Lunacharsky Street is so transparentBicycles and horses race homeOn these streets, my love, I honed my styleI touched the air with my handEven Lunacharsky Street can be so gloomy and wicked at timesAnd a cloud with a pointy beard delivers a delicious joltAnd it groans languidly There is nothing beyond the black skyAnd nothing will be firstPerhaps the…

#climate change #death penalty #extreme heat #Great Salt Lake #Iran #Iran War #Karachi #Kurara (Russian rock band #Native Hawaiians #Pacific Islanders #Rafia Zakaria #Shiraz #Utah #water scarcity #Yekaterinburg

"I Don't Want to Get Used to the War"

“I don’t want to get used to the war” was the message painted on a fence outside the former Stables Department building in Petersburg in February 2025. Photo: Bumaga Author of graffiti “I don’t want to get used to the war” released after sentencing The Petrograd District Court sentenced activist Alexander Arseniev to twenty months in prison on criminal charges of vandalism and “discrediting”…

#Alexander Arseniev #graffiti #Ivan Astashin #Russian anti-war movement #Russian political prisoners

Shyshagh: Imaginary Circassian Underground (Circassian Remembrance Day)

May 21st marks Circassian Remembrance Day, or the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Russo-Caucasian War. This war, spanning from 1763 to 1864, resulted in the loss of independence for the North Caucasus region and, for the Circassians (one of the region’s indigenous peoples), in genocide and mass exile from their historical homeland. In the 1990s, Circassian activists, public figures,…

#Cherim #Circassian Day of Mourning (May 21 #Circassian Day of Remembrance #Circassian folk music #Circassian genocide #Circassians #hauntology #Kabardino-Balkaria #Nalchik #new Circassian music #Ored Recordings #Temir #Timur Kodzoko #Zafaq

Inner Emigrants

Lena Karbe’s documentary film Inner Emigrants examines what people in Russia think about the war with Ukraine. Deutsche Welle spoke with the filmmaker about making the picture and the conclusions we can draw from it. One of the psychologists featured in the film “Inner Emigrants” on the job. Still courtesy of Karbe Film GmbH Lena Karbe’s documentary film Inner Emigrants (Innere Emigranten) is…

#"Inner Emigrants" (documentary film #Deutsche Welle #internal emigration #Lena Karbe #Russia&039;s silent majority #Russian attitudes to war #Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russians and Republicans Hate Black People

I’ve spent most of the last 48 hours doomscrolling through people’s reactions to the destruction of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court. The people I follow most regularly have split into predictable camps. There are people like me and Adam Serwer who are trying to put the court’s decision into the larger context of the long-standing white hostility to Black voting rights and Black…

#"Watson" (TV series #African Americans in the Soviet Union #Africans in the Soviet Union #anti-Black racism #Elie Mystal #Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon #Morris Chestnut #redistricting #Soviet-African friendship #Voting Rights Act #white supremacy

Outcasts in Their Own Land: Russia's Political Prisoners

Over four years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, some of the Russians imprisoned in its early days are still in jail. Even people with no previous political activism have been landed with long prison sentences in order to crush dissent. Yevgeny Zateyev and Anna Arkhipova attend a court hearing in the case against the Vesna movement, one of the leading voices of antiwar protest in Russia. A court in…

#"Try Me for Treason" (film #"Voices Against Putin&039;s War" (book #Andrei Trofimov #Anna Arkhipova #closing statement #Jacobin (magazine #Russian anti-war movement #Russian invasion of Ukraine #Russian political prisoners #Sergei Dudchenko #Simon Pirani #Ukrainian prisoners in Russian jails #Yulia Lemeshchenko

The Cards

Russian President Vladimir Putin has always been a paranoid man. We know, for example, that he has long eschewed the use of a personal cellphone, all too aware of how easily they can be tracked. Yet a Kremlin document recently leaked to the press by a European intelligence service lays bare a whole new level of suspicion. Visitors can only approach him after they’ve gone through two layers of…

#Christian Caryl #drone strikes #Kyiv Independent #Oleksiy Sorokin #Russian invasion of Ukraine #targeted killings #The Counteroffensive (online publication #Victory Day #Vladimir Putin

Vestochka (A Way to Write Letters to Russian Political Prisoners)

Hello and welcome back to the Digest! In this newsletter we will share how much support of political prisoners really matters. Darya Kozyreva, a 20-year-old activist from St. Petersburg (and a former defendant of OVD-Info), was set free from prison this spring. Her story became an example of how publicity can bring attention and support from all around the world. Darya Kozyreva in court 18…

#Darya Kozyreva #letter writing #OVD Info #Russian anti-war movement #Russian political prisoners

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