The Russian Reader

In Russia(n), there's not even a fine line between farsh, farce, forcemeat, and cannon fodder.

Since most Russian middle-class emigres are to the right of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir when it comes to Israel-Palestine and Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, exiled Moscow journalist Elena Kostyuchenko's review of the documentary film "NAZA" and her experien…

Simon Pirani: "What, really, have socialists learned from the Russian war on Ukraine?

Illuminating insights into the realities of Russia's brutal war against Ukraine and Europe from independent war journalist Dylan Burns, Branislav Slantchev's Ukrainian students, and international affairs journalist Michael Weiss.

Ivan Astashin, Giuliano Vivaldi, and Simon Pirani team up to report and analyze the new "high treason" charges against Russian-Italian anti-war resistance hero Ruslan Siddiqi, already serving 29 years behind bars for sabotaging a Russian munitions train b…

This weekend, Russians are voting in parliamentary elections for the first time since their country invaded Ukraine.

You can judge a man (and a regime) by the company he keeps.

In the fifth year of the Petersburg mafia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, "going underground" has come to mean very different things for Kyivans and Petersburgers.

Industrial climber Georgy Pirogov disappeared from Uzbekistan two years ago, later resurfacing in Moscow and facing charges of high treason.

The Moscow Times, Alexander Podrabinek, Natalia Vvedenskaya, and Meduza with news and commentary on the Lida Moniava case: "I always thought she was exactly what a Christian should be like."

When does translation cross a line and turn into erasure?

Zakhar Prilepin: "If you take your knowledge beyond the borders of this country, beyond the bounds of our national science, you will betray all those who stand beside you.

People in Bashmakovo, a town in Russia's Penza Region, have banded together to fight press gangs that have been abducting the town's men and sending them to the war in Ukraine.

The late great art critic Peter Schjeldahl, writing in June 1991 on a trip to Helsinki and Leningrad via occupied Viipuri and the occupied Kannas: "Last week on a bus to Leningrad, as a bottle was passed around, I got angry for Finland.

Alexander Podrabinek: "The hope that Ukraine will emerge victorious from the war is quite popular among Russian political exiles.

Punk's not dead, not even in Russia, but the fascist authorities there would like to kill it, judging by their recent multi-law enforcement agency raid on a punk festival in the woods near Vyborg.

Just as Russia's fascist police arrest Igor Zaitsev, a Petersburg university lecturer, on criminal felony charges of "financing extremism" (that is, donating tiny amounts of money to the murdered Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation), the Finnish a…