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ICE has also been targeting Russian asylum seekers, as exemplified by the cases of Buryat activist Alexander Bolokhoev and Peterburg anti-electoral fraud activist "Dimitry."
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Why I Want to Give the Russian Liberal Intelligentsia a Subscription to the London Review of Books https://t.co/9Xh9CLykrC

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Dasha Navalnaya and Bad Baltic Takes on popular support for the Putin regime (and other matters).

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How the Russian army entices men into signing up to fight in the "special military operation zone."

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How else would my readers find out that "liberal" Russians don't regard Palestinians and many other Arabs (e.g., Syrians) as full-fledged human beings who can lay claim to the same rights and freedoms as "just plain Israelis" and "liberal" Russians?

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A musical journey to France made from a mansion in Peterburg as the missiles ran down on Hroza.
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Does Russian culture have an alternative to the "expansionist universalism"? Russian literary scholar in exile Ilya Kukulin argues that the place to look for it is in late-Soviet unofficial literature and scholarship.

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A Petersburg district court has ordered schools in the city's Nevsky District to outfit themselves with dummy Kalashnikov assault rifles and copies of military regulations and of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
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My reflections on "business models," as provoked by The Bell's decision to charge upwards of $168 a year for their weekly English-language newsletters.

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The Russian Reader's coverage of this past weekend's sham elections is anchored by political prisoner Ilya Yashin, who merrily describes how the vote went in the Moscow remand prison where he's currently housed.
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Russia's Education Ministry and State Duma have unveiled plans to unleash "special military operation" vets on Russian schoolchildren. The vets will teach the new subject "Fundamentals of the Security and Defense of the Motherland" in schools next year.

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Russian "anti-war" sentiment has a lot in common with Russian imperialism: they're both founded on never-acknowledged White privilege and a near-total denial of responsibility for its ill effects and victims.

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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, they say. So I've joined the post-Prigozhin feeding frenzy. I feel almost like a normie now. No AI was used in the making of this blog post, however, so I guess I'm still officially a loser.

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No one whose voice gets heard in this celebrity-mad world has time for Russian political prisoners and anti-war protesters who have not been canonized by the international mainstream press and their sources in the Moscow liberal intelligentsia.

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The month of August matters to me.
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Preserve Students' Rights to Study World Languages at West Virginia University - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/QUqWz6JN8G via @Change

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Although the defense proved at her trial that Yaroslavl teenager Valeria Zotova was the victim of entrapment by the FSB, who admitted as much in court, Zotova was found guilty of "plotting to commit a terrorist act" in late June.
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Even as Russia makes war on the "collective west" (i.e., the United States) by murdering Ukrainians in their tens of thousands, Russians continues to indulge in a cargo cultish relationship with US pop culture and the English language.
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On August 11, a court sentenced 51-year-old animal rights activist Alexander Bakhtin to six years in a penal colony for 3 anti-war posts on VK. He was also sentenced to compulsory outpatient psychiatric treatment. https://t.co/3TDpDqvy6R