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Russia Is Not a Land of Opportunity for Central Asians
Tajikistan has condemned what it called an “ethnic hatred” attack in Russia after a 10-year-old boy from a Tajik family was stabbed to death at a school near Moscow, in a rare public rebuke aimed at a key partner for labor migration and security ties. The killing happened on December 16 in the village of Gorki-2 in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, according to Russia’s Investigative…
"Motherland, Come Home"
DDT frontman Yuri Shevchuk has released the video “Motherland, Come Home.” In the new single, he calls on his country to stop the war and go about its own business. The video was shot by Shevchuk in collaboration with producer and composer Dmitry Yemelyanov. Yuri Shevchuk wrote the poem “Motherland, Come Home” in the summer of 2022, a few months after Russia had launched its invasion of Ukraine.…
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Incredibly Weak
In the wake of Alexei Navalny’s murder by the Russian fascist state, his message to the Russian people, at the end of the award-winning documentary film Navalny, has been quoted ten thousand times and turned into a meme on social media, to wit: “If they decide to kill me, we are incredibly strong,” he said, addressing Russian citizens. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for…
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"Our characters find themselves trapped in confined spaces where both physical and emotional tensions escalate."
“The Cop Party,” an early edition of The Russian Reader, which started life as a series of happenings. Pushkinskaya 10 artists’ squat, Petersburg, circa 1995 What’s the point of this flash mob? The nostalgia of aging people for their own youth? The illusion of normality in a situation of growing abnormality? The illusion of solidarity in a situation where all sociability is…
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The Ad Campaign
Sergey Abashin writes: “All of Petersburg is covered with ads like this.” This ad says that on the day you sign a contract to serve in the Russian army you’ll be issued a plot of land (for building your own house) near Petersburg whose market value is around two million rubles. You’ll also (?) get a one-time payment of 500,000 rubles. Your monthly pay in the army (if you serve in the “special…
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Go to Kazakhstan!
A bird’s eye view of Astana (aka Nursultan), the capital of Kazakhstan. Photo courtesy of Travel Triangle Observing the discussions about visas [for Russians wishing to escape to the EU], I want to note how detached they are, in a way, from real life. It sometimes seems to me that this discussion is more about how Russians imagine “the West” than it is about helping actual people. For many…
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Voices in the Wilderness
Voices in the Wilderness
Timothy Ash: “Nord Stream 2 is about undermining Ukraine.” The most cogent analyst of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is hiding out at a place called Bluebay Asset Management. Watch this six-minute clip if you want to know why Putin is likely to invade Ukraine. Thanks to Mark Teeter for the heads-up. Meanwhile, in the total absence of an anti-war movement in Russia, I share these recent reflections…
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Eighteen Years Down the Drain Sergey Abashin Facebook September 13, 2017 They say that today the time the leader has spent in office has drawn even with Brezhnev's eighteen years in power.
