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Protests by Soldiers' Wives in Russia Show How an Antiwar Movement Can Grow There

Kirill Medvedev — 2024-02-08T15:45:18Z

In Russia, the wives of men mobilized to the Ukrainian front are increasingly demanding that they be returned home. While the movement is not mainly directed at opposing Vladimir Putin, it offers hope of breaking the war machine from within.
In fall 2022, Russia began a partial mobilization of civilians for the war in Ukraine. By October 2023, at least four thousand of them had been killed (Russia's total nonrecoverable losses amount to four hundred thousand men, but these are mostly (…)

- IV589 - February 2024 / Russia, Women

Russia Policing and Repression Prisons The Persecution of Azat Miftakhov Is Designed to Silence Russia's Left

Kirill Medvedev — 2023-09-06T11:08:30Z

Saturday 2 September was an international day of solidarity demanding the release of Azat Miftakhov, a mathematician and anarchist anti-fascist activist who is spending his fifth year in prison in Russia. He is accused of setting fire to an office of the ruling United Russia party in 2018. He is due to be released soon, having completed his sentence. However, he has just been declared a "terrorist" and therefore runs the risk of remaining imprisoned under any other pretext, especially as the wave of repression is now affecting the left opposed to the Kremlin.

- IV584 - September 2023 / Russia

Navalny's Return and Left Strategy

Ilya Budraitskis, Ilya Matveev, Kirill Medvedev, LeftEast — 2021-01-22T12:41:01Z

Russia has had an eventful week and it's not even finished. First, Alexey Navalny flew back to Moscow, then he was immediately arrested upon crossing the border, and the next day his team published a video illustrating Vladimir Putin's own corruption and calling upon all citizens to come out to the streets against the government on January 23. What is the Russian left to think of all this? Navalny is certainly not its own, but should it stay away from the protests and the brewing political crisis?

- IV552 - January 2021 / Russia

Peace-Fighters: The Need for a New Democratic Opposition

Kirill Medvedev — 2014-08-20T06:46:10Z

The need for a “third way,” one that is different from the rabid support for one of the sides in the Ukrainian crisis, a way about which several of have written in the last few months, is especially evident today, because it is the only chance to reconstitute the almost completely broken democratic opposition in Russia.

- IV475 - August 2014 / Russia, Ukraine