Russians celebrate National Unity Day on 4 November, but the name masks Russian anxieties about disunity and disintegration.
Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible presents a Russia with no rules and no certainty in tomorrow, a place where you must live in the moment, because the moment is all you have.
Putin’s speech to the Valdai Club on 24 October shows he no longer believes in the old international rules.
Не проходит и дня, чтобы в прессе не появилось сообщения об очередном педофиле. Однако источники проблемы находятся не там, где ищут полицейские и активисты.
Not a day goes by without another paedophile scare in the Russian press and TV, but everyone is looking in the wrong direction.
Will the new treaty being discussed between Abkhazia and Russia provide a blueprint for cooperation or something more like annexation?
On paper, Russia’s new laws on data storage seem to make business impossible for big internet companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and a wider range of online businesses.
Ukraine’s snap parliamentary elections have once again proved that the mainstream of society rejects the far right – not that the Russian government or media will care.
In Kirov, an incautious remark by Aleksei Navalny might result in five people going to prison for 10 years.
Sanctions have had a limited effect on the Russian population whose support towards the government’s Ukrainian policy does not seem to be eroding.
Недавнее столкновение с полицейскими – признак отчуждения, чувствованного некоторыми молодыми людьми из московского мусульманского сообщества. in English
A recent clash with the police is a sign of the alienation felt by some young men from Moscow’s Muslim community. на русском языке
