There is growing concern among pro-government experts: everything is fine during the special operation—"everyone is united"—but what will happen if it suddenly ends? novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/…

The inconspicuous reformer. Vadim Medvedev, the last member of the Politburo who was ideologically close to Mikhail Gorbachev, died at the age of 97.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/…

High time for Labubus. Six months of exaggerated expectations that Trump would bring peace passed like a single day. Nothing happened, and Russians, who had shown their desire for peace returned to their usual lives with background hostilities. nzz.ch/feuilleton/hoe…

The state, having deprived society of its civil rights and history, now also lays claim to the Russian language.newtimes.ru/articles/detai…

A taxonomy of the fears, syndromes, and complexes of the Russian authorities that have prevented Russia from becoming a normal country for centuries.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/…

Since the Heinrich Böll Foundation has been declared undesirable in Russia, the director of one library was fined for having Heinrich Böll's books on the shelves. Böll has ended up in Orwell's world.mostmedia.org/ru/posts/kazus…

The “50 Days” Program. The Kremlin would like to continue with the "special operation" and divide the world with the US at same time. But it must choose: it has a month and a half to make a decision. novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/…

Orwell explained Putinism in advance not only in his novels, but also in his essays.newtimes.ru/articles/detai…

Countless festivals and celebrations have been organized in Russia. Anything to keep people from noticing the second, Orwellian track of life. Instead of a normal life, her cargo cult mostmedia.org/ru/posts/ushed…

The meeting in Istanbul showed that there is no political will to end the conflict at least until the end of Trump's ultimatum. Meetings, phone calls —everything has become a hopeless routine, just like people's perception of the disaster itself.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/…

By glorifying Stalin as a positive hero, it seems that the regime has decided on a negative one—not only “weak” leaders like Khrushchev and Gorbachev, but also Andrei Sakharov. newtimes.ru/articles/detai…

A bit of history with documents: how the USSR missed the chance to transform communism into social democracy. Last article in the last issue of the prohibited magazine Gorby gorby.media/articles/2025/…

Putinomics is experiencing problems of such scale that it is time to find a scapegoat. Propagandists have directed criticism at Elvira Nabiullina.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/…

Lukashenko plays the role of a Greek chorus for Putin. During their meeting, Putin clarified his doctrine, which is called “This is ours.” Where the boundaries of “ours” lie remains unclear.newtimes.ru/articles/detai…

Chronocide is the murder of time. Putin's future turns everything that humanity considered its future into the past: human rights, democracy, property rights. Since there are no goals, all that remains is the eternal present. mostmedia.org/ru/posts/svo-e…

100 years ago, Mikhail Bulgakov wrote a play based on his novel The White Guard. Stalin watched The Days of the Turbins 15 times. He liked the collapse of the peaceful world of “cream curtains.” The tearing down of cream curtains has happened again novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/…

The Kremlin successfully broke the deadlock caused by the White House's “ultimatum.” Whitcoff's "walk in the woods" in Zaryadye Park and meeting in the Kremlin had the desired effect. India became an unwitting victim on two counts. novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/…

Violencia intelectual: cómo el putinismo está infiltrando la educación rusa. En la Rusia actual, el Estado está nacionalizando al individuo (y también sus propiedades), pero el proceso no se ha completado. letraslibres.com/politica/viole…

The post-Korean war stand-off is way more likely than lasting peace. A new Yalta and a cold war - that's what Putin wants. He is eager to claim Stalin's laurels. ft.com/content/e1e4a1…

A hallmark of autocratic regimes is a lack of taste.Uniformity very often turns out ugly. But here’s the problem: the state has launched a reboot of neo-totalitarianism in a modernized and diverse society mostnews.org/en/posts/who-s…