Belarus Three Years After Protest
In August 2020, Aleksandr Lukashenko, authoritarian leader of Belarus, denied electoral fraud and claimed landslide victory in his sixth presidential election. The regime’s violent crackdown on the ma...
30 Okt 202336min
Berlin as a Home of New Russian Political Exiles
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Berlin has emerged as a crucial center of activity for both Ukrainian refugees and Russian political exiles. It is here that many known and emerging leaders of t...
3 Aug 20231h 1min
Israeli Military Experts on the Enabling Factors of Russian War Crimes in Ukraine
The 2022 invasion of Ukraine was supposed to illustrate the Russian army’s ability to conduct a “contactless,” “surgical” military operation with minimal civilian casualties and damage to critical nat...
29 Jun 202349min
Russian Culture as a Casualty (and Accomplice) of Putin’s War in Ukraine
The relationship between the artist and the state has always been fraught in Putin’s Russia, where government remains the primary funder of cultural institutions and censorship of cultural production ...
18 Apr 202338min
Lessons from "Cold War Radio": A Conversation with Mark Pomar
When in 1991 Boris Yeltsin invited Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to open a news bureau in Russia, the move was hailed as the clearest sign yet that the Cold War was ending. Last year, Vladimir Putin...
20 Mar 202355min
The Kremlin's Favorite Scapegoat: The Latest Attack on LGBTQ+ Rights in Russia
In November 2022, the Russian parliament passed a new bill banning any activity that can be interpreted as the promotion of “non-traditional sexual relations and/or preferences.” In December, Presiden...
23 Jan 202339min
Polish-Russian Relations Move from Reset to Ruin
Poland and Russia share a long history that has been full of grievances and unresolved traumas. And while 2007 saw a positive shift in the relationship, the annexation of Crimea in 2014 put an end to ...
1 Nov 202240min
Life under the Russian Occupation: A Conversation with Katerina Sergatskova
For those living under the Russian occupation in Ukraine, life has turned into a daily struggle and search for food, water, and medicine. Izabella Tabarovsky talked with the Ukrainian war reporter and...
30 Sep 202232min
