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Alexander Podrabinek: Opposition Politicians Must Live in Russia to Do Their Jobs

Alexander Podrabinek in 1980 The recent prisoner swap has suddenly and quite vividly clarified the emotions and motives of the militant segment of the Russian emigration. Those who did photography in the old days will remember how you would dip a blank sheet of photographic paper into developer and gradually an image would appear on it. At first, the image would be vague, just outlines, but then…

Alexander Podrabinek: Opposition Politicians Must Live in Russia to Do Their Jobs

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The Good Russians

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Kremlin critic Dmitry Gudkov says his Russia exit is a tactical retreat

Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov said on Monday his decision to leave Russia was a temporary and tactical retreat because he could no longer practice politics effectively due to unprecedented pressure from the authorities.

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Russian Diplomation

Dmitry Gudkov Facebook April 14, 2021 You, of course, have already seen this photo, which can even now be inserted into a history textbook to illustrate Russia’s foreign policy at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The military attache of the Russian Federation in Latvia, Ruslan Ushakov, flipped off neighbors who complained about him for having a feast during the plague, that is, a party…

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Mission of Burma

Dmitry Gudkov Facebook April 1, 2021 The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), or in Russian, the Gulag, is designed so that an inmate cannot save his own life other than by directly endangering his own life. Alexey Navalny’s hunger strike has the simplest, most natural demand: to be seen by a doctor. It’s not about politics, or even about justice, but about seeing a doctor. When scoundrels from…

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Putin's Base

Putin’s Base

Jenya Kulakova Facebook January 30, 2021 A random interlocutor told me about their friend, a Russian National Guardsman. Last Saturday, he worked the protests in St. Petersburg from 9 am to 10 pm without a single lunch break. After the elections in Belarus, his unit was taken to Pskov, where they removed all their insignia: if necessary, they could be shipped to Belarus to beat up the protesters.…

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Azat Miftakhov: Six Years in Prison for Not Breaking a Window

Azat Miftakhov: Six Years in Prison for Not Breaking a Window

Lev Schlosberg Facebook January 18, 2021 Moscow State University graduate student Azat Miftakhov has been sentenced by the Golovinsky District Court in Moscow to six years in prison in the case of [attempted] arson at a United Russia party field office in the Khovrino [district of Moscow]. He was convicted based on testimony given by two secret witnesses, including one who died a year ago. The…

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They Have Nothing Better to Do

They Have Nothing Better to Do

Dmitry Gudkov Facebook January 9, 2021 I understand that Russians there is no problem more important than Trump’s showdown with Twitter. The precedent of blocking a social network account is not a very good one, of course, but the folks in the US will cope without us. I would venture to throw out a different topic for discussion. On Monday, January 11, the verdict in the case of Azat Miftakhov…

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