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[VIDEO] Li Andersson, MEP for Left Alliance (Finland) Trump-Putin threat

Li Andersson

Left for Peace without Annexations

Dmitrii Kovalev

‘Even silence is viewed as dissent’: An interview with Russian trade unionist Pavel Kudyukin

 Pavel Kudyukin, Federico Fuentes & Serhii Shlyapnikov

Three Years of Ukraine War: A Russian Trade Unionist Settles Accounts

Kirill Buketow

Russian left statements: ‘The Putin-Trump “peace talks” will bring nothing but new imperialist wars’

Russian Socialists for Peace Without Annexations & Posle Editorial Collective

Trump, Putin and the war in Ukraine: Europe’s painful awakening to the rise of global Fascism

Hanna Perekhoda

Ukraine Solidarity Under the Trump Administration

Ukraine Solidarity Network (US)

The European Left Facing a Historic Challenge

Stefan Bekier

‘We’ll have to win it militarily’ Following U.S.-Russia talks, many pro-invasion Russian bloggers see an end to Ukraine — but not to the war

Meduza,io

Ukraine: I Really Believe That Time Has Come: The Armed Forces of Europe Must Be Created – Speech by the President at the Munich Security Conference

President Volodmyr Zelensky

Stanislav Dutov: "I can't explain what I went through in Russian prisons: my comrades are still there"

Cristina Mas, Stanislav Dutov

Hanna Perekhoda: ‘The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global struggle against fascist forces’

Hanna Perekhoda, Francesca Barca, Translated by Ciarán Lawless

Russia: Daghestan prioritises soldiers fighting in Ukraine in Hajj voucher distribution

Elizaveta Chukharova

Slavoj Zizek: Leftists falsify the choice that Ukrainians face during wartime

 Slavoj Zizek, Interview by Kate Tsurkan

Russia charges Memorial head with ‘justifying terrorism’ for calling persecuted Ukrainian POWs political prisoners

Halya Coynash

Aleksandr Skobov latest Russian "defeatist" condemned for "terrorism”

Aleksandr Skobov

Feminist Anti-War Resistance’s response to the invitation to co-organize the March 1 march

European network in solidarity with Ukraine and against war 

Russia: Rainbow Extremism

Liliya Vezhevatova

Russian anti-war prisoner Igor Paskar: ‘I acted according to my conscience’

Solidarity Zone

Should Ukraine Have Nuclear Weapons?

Slavoj Žižek

*Russia-Ukraine: Who Won and Who Lost?**

Ilya Matveev, Translated from Russian by Adam Novak

The BRICS summit in Russia offers no alternative

 Eric Toussaint, Translated by Sushovan Dhar

Russian Women Political Prisoners. A System of Violence

Fikus

"Desertion is a political act." Should Russians escaping the army be seen as victims of the war in Ukraine?

Amalia Zatari.

The ‘two logics’ of imperialism

Ilya Matveev, Federico Fuentes

Anti-War Protests and Resistance in Russia

Ivan Astashin

Political imperialism, Putin’s Russia, and the need for a global left alternative: Interview with Ilya Matveev

Ilya Matveev & Federico Fuentes

‘They want total control’: how Russia is forcing Sami people to hide their identity

Miranda Bryant 

Dangerous liaisons: New details of Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka’s espionage for Russia

Christo Grozev,Michael Weiss,Inga Spriņģe

How Patrushev’s Paranoia Consumed the Kremlin

 Ilya Matveev

Without Ukraine, there would have been no victory. What exactly is Russia’s lie regarding World War II?

Yana Prymachenko

III / The war in Ukraine and Russian capital: From military-economic to full military imperialism

Ilya Matveev 

Ukraine embraces far-right Russian ‘bad guy’ to take the battle to Putin

JAMIE DETTMER

THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH DECLARES “HOLY WAR” AGAINST UKRAINE AND ARTICULATES TENETS OF RUSSIA’S EMERGING OFFICIAL NATIONALIST IDEOLOGY

Riley Bailey, Christina Harward, Angelica Evans, and George Barros

The War and Loyalist Protest

Alexander Finiarel’

Russia: Moscow terror attack met with repression, racism

Federico Fuentes

ISIS-K’s sworn enemy What does the Islamic State branch claiming responsibility for the Moscow terrorist attack have against Russia?

Meduza

Russia lauding torture was unthinkable – now it is proud to do so

Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer

Terrorist Attack and Election Pave Way for Putin to Intensify Repression and War

Ashley Smith, Ilya Budraitskis

Putin's sham victory — the winner fakes it all

Donnacha Ó Beacháin

The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism

Dmitri Levitin

‘Indifference’ and ‘Anger’ Guide Voter Choice in Russia’s Ethnic Republics

Leyla Latypova

Russia: For a Just World/Just Peace Manifesto

Справедливый мир campaign

Russian socialist Mikhail Lobanov: ‘We are sure that at this “election”, millions will cast a protest vote’

Mikhail Lobanov Federico Fuentes

Russian leftists are planning to disrupt Putin’s fake presidential election this weekend

Mikhail Lobanov Federico Fuentes

Putin’s plebiscite, Russia’s “Left” & Russia’s Left

Ernest Reid

Artdocfest is a crucial outpost of free expression on Russia’s doorstep

Jeremy Hicks

Breaking Down Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election

DANIIL SAPUNKOV

Two years of war in Ukraine

Christos Kefalis

‘They could start to resist’ How the Russian authorities are working to indoctrinate and digitally surveil deported Ukrainian children

Meduza.io

Statement on the announcement by the Russian Federation that IndustriALL Global Union is an “undesirable organization”

IndustriAll Global Union

Not Russians’ ‘little brother’ anymore Russia’s decolonial movement banks on interethnic solidarity in its fight against the Kremlin

Story by Leyla Latypova for The Beet. Edited by Eilish Hart.

A Russian socialist explains why Putin killed Alexei Navalny and jailed Boris Kagarlitsky

Kirill Medvedev Federico Fuentes

In Russia, Too, Capital Is Painting Itself Green

Victoria Myznikova

2 Years Into Ukraine War, Russia’s Ethnic Minorities Disproportionately Killed in Battle

Leyla Latypova

Manifesto for Sustainable Peace

Collective

Unraveling Russian State Anxieties

Hanna Perekhoda

A revolution in Russia is possible

Mikhail Lobanov

Alexei Navalny was a Russian hero

Ilya Matveev

Russia: Navalny and Us

Grusha Gilayeva

Alexei Navalny Taught Russia’s Opposition How to Mobilize

Ilya Budraitskis

When a day lasts a year. Reflecting on the Bucha massacre two years later

Volodymyr Molodii

EU: What everyone needs to know about Putin’s interview and why ideology matters

Hanna Perekhoda

‘I no longer have a country’: Antiwar Russians who fled unlikely to return

Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska

Russia Jails Prominent Bashkir Activist 4 Years

Leyla Latypova

Thousands rally against repression of Russian peace activists

Anton Gerashchenko

Europe: Halt returns of people from the North Caucasus to Russia where they are at risk of torture and abuse

Amnesty International

Perspectives on Russian imperialism

Ilya Budraitskis

‘My prisons and the future of Russia’

Yurii Colombo, Boris Kagarlitsky

Calling for an End to War Is Not the Same as Calling for Peace

Oleksa Drachewych

St. Petersburg police reportedly arrest thousands of migrants, pressure them into signing Russian army contracts

Meduza.io

Israel pursuing similar goals to Russia – Lavrov

RT News

Ekaterina Duntsova and Russian electoral dictatorship. A Thread

Ilya Matveev

Putin is illegitimate

Declaration Russian Democratic Forces, Collective

Putin’s Russia and Peripheral Imperialism

Anatoly Kropivnitskyi

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

Kirill Medvedev

Thaw in Russia?

Russian Socialist Movement

Top Russian Human Rights Defender Faces Prison Term

Tanya Lokshina

Russian oligarch’s book offers a revolution the people can’t take part in

Nikolay Andreev

Trade unions condemn criminalisation of LGBTIQ+ people and activists in Russia

European Public Service Union

UK sanctions Russian intelligence agents for cyber espionage attacks

Paul Mason

Traditional Values and Lofty Sentiments

Marina Simakova

Beyond Russia: authoritarian regimes and imperialist aggression

Kateryna Turenko

How Putin is reshaping Russia to keep his war-machine running

The Economist

Most Russians back war in Ukraine and buy Putin’s case for it, report says

Robyn Dixon

Most Russians back war in Ukraine and buy Putin’s case for it, report says

Robyn Dixon

Vladimir Putin’s killer patriotism

Nina L Khrushcheva

Guns Instead of Butter

Nikolay Sukhanov

Ukrainian Travelers of the Past: scientific discoveries and criticism of imperial Russia

Tetyana Savchenko

Russia’s Slaughter of Indigenous People in Alaska Tells Us Something Important About Ukraine

Casey Michel

Russia: 'Cultural Pogrom': Putin's St. Petersburg Alma Mater Purges Dissident Students, Faculty

Robert Coalson

“Action is Easier Than Inaction”

Posle

Russia convicts, but refrains from imprisoning, Memorial Co-Chair for criticism of its war against Ukraine

Halya Coynash

‘Thirty years down the line, we’re back in “1984”’

Oleg Orlov

«Тhere is still hope for Russia» — Ilya Yashin writes from prison

Ilya Yashin

Hate Speech, Part One

Michele A. Berdy

Explainer: What Does Russia’s Exit From the Convention on National Minorities Mean?

Leyla Latypova

The army of marauders: where Russian soldiers’ habit of looting comes from

Roman Ponomarenko

Bath salts, overdoses, and drug mules

Verstka

FAR statement at the Aachen Peace Prize ceremony

Feminist Anti-War Resistance

Ilya Matveev: A Word to the Wise (On Putin’s “Leftism” and Solidarity with Russians)

Ilya Matveev

Russia: “Stop the War” Means “Death to the Dictatorship”

Russian Socialist Movement