I’m reading Marchenko—the Soviet dissident who spent half his life in prison and died in…
Yesterday I watched the “Security Council meeting” — a gathering of senile fools and...
Everyone is talking about the series "Chernobyl." And I’d like to say a few words myself, as someone who…
Alexei Navalny on Standing Up to Putin and His Murderous Minions
In an exclusive interview, Russia’s oft-imprisoned opposition leader talks about the threats against him and the long struggle against what the opposition calls Putinism.
Even in the USSR, when I was an Oktyabryonok and a Young Pioneer (Soviet youth organizations), they didn’t force us to sing songs…
November 7
In the modern context
These 5 minutes will go down in history
Twitter day. 7 January 2016
Twitter day. 29 October 2015
The Novosibirsk Opera House is the largest theater in the territory of the former USSR. Absolutely massive.
The might of the USSR and jokes about whether there were tomatoes in the student cafeteria
Twitter day. 1 June 2015
Twitter day. 16 May 2015
The most important 2 minutes and 54 seconds from Vladimir Solovyov’s film “President.” Watch.
On his grandmother’s side, Muhammad; on his aunt’s side, King David
About “vatniks.” And while we’re at it, about Tatars, too.
The Color of Victory and the Ribbons
May Day
So they finally broke up the USSR.
Twitter day. 26 April 2014
Twitter day. 5 April 2014
Twitter day. 26 March 2014
Conversation with a politician. Part 1
Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili) talks with Alexei Navalny. They discuss issues of nationalism and statehood, the role of the USSR and its collapse, Stalinism and de-Stalinization, as well as the place of the church in secular society and the interaction between religion and power.