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Tag: Vladimir Putin
Book Review: How Colonial Racism Built and Maintains Unjust Global Order
Alexander Barder’s book Global Race War traces the moves and developments of a global racial order on a grand scale.
When Tragedy Becomes Banal: Why News Consumers Experience Crisis Fatigue
Whether it is the war in Ukraine or other devastating news, people find it hard to sustain their attention. A scholar who studies crisis fatigue explains why that is …
Vladimir Sorokin’s ‘Telluria’ Is a Dystopian Novel for Our Dangerous Times
In the Russian novelist's latest, inhabitants of a war-ravaged Europe can find solace only by hammering nails made of a hallucinogenic substance into their skulls.
Russian Artists Grapple With the Same Dilemma as Their Soviet Forebears – To Stay or To Go?
Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
Pussy Riot Back on Tour After Singer Escapes Russia in Disguise
Placed under house arrest by Russian authorities, Maria Alyokhina dressed as a food delivery service employee to make her escape.
‘Zombie TV’: The Disintegration of Russia’s Free Press
A look at how Russia's media has evolved since the 1990s: 37 journalists have been murdered in Russia since Vladimir Putin took office in 2000.
Russia: Programme of ‘Patriotic Education’ Aims To Create Next Generation of Putin Faithful
Russian schoolchildren are being mobilised in a patriotic movement which encourages military service.
I Like To Spell Kyiv
A poem on the recent siege of the city of Kyiv by Russian forces.
Rejecting Russian Culture Only Plays Into Putin’s Hands
Opera houses and literature departments have dropped works by Tchaikovsky and Dostoevsky. Yuri Gagarin’s name has been erased by a space exploration nonprofit.