Putin’s worst nightmare.
Their mission is to cleanse Russia of its ethnic “occupiers,” with an anti-immigrant stance supported by half the population. And since 2004 their most extreme members have murdered more than 350 people. Luke Harding reports on the rise of the Russian far-right.
An important article. But is this really his worst nightmare? Or would the [...]
February 9, 2009
Кошмарит ли его этот кошмар?
February 9, 2009
“In This Building They Decide Who Lives and For How Long”
Honoring the memory of the murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist and anarchist Anastasia Baburova has very quickly become a matter of low-scale partisan warfare in Russia. The police have been quick to interfere with or altogether stamp out spontaneous (i.e., “unsanctioned”) collective expressions of grief and outrage. First, there was the antifa/anarchist march [...]
