In October, a possible educational outing at the local cemetery, where Duke Serge von Leuchtenberg de Beauharnais is buried, unexpectedly sent me down an NTS rabbit hole, a journey that, a month later, has just as serendipitously expanded to new itineraries charted by Mitya Volchek, David Albanese, the FSB, and Gerald Frost, and surprise guest appearances by William Sloane Coffin and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Andy Borowitz, Fred Kaplan, Heather Cox Richardson, and Cathy Young on the Stable Genius's Kremlin-drafted "peace plan" for Russia and Ukraine.

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"Let's have you all over when the war ends": Bristol UP, "Charlemagne," ambicolonial theorists, News from Ukraine Bulletin, the L.A. Times, Sarah Hurst, Jennifer Szalai, and Quentin Peel go in search of the "good Russians."

Simon Pirani: "The powers on both sides of the geopolitical divide are frightened of similar things: the defiance and resilience of the opponents of Putin’s war, and the anger that has brought millions of people on to the streets of north American and European cities, in protest at the Gaza genocide. They are frightened of beliefs that are taking shape, in varying forms, that humanity can and should strive for a better, richer life than that offered by the warmongers and dictators. Some of these beliefs are expressed in the chapters of this book."

The 2005 murder by neo-Nazis of Petersburg musician, philosophy student, antifascist, and Food Not Bombs activist Timur Kacharava was a signal event in post-communist Russia's precipitous slide into full-blown fascism at home and bloody war in Ukraine. As they have every year since Timur's murder, Petersburgers gathered to remember him on 13 November 2025.

Black is beautiful if it moves units. Otherwise, it gives white the heebie-jeebies.

There can be no better way to mark this website's 18th birthday today than by promoting a new book in whose birth it played a part — Voices Against Putin's War: Protesters' Defiant Speeches in Russian Courts, edited by Simon Pirani and published by Resistance Books (London).

ICE has also been targeting Russian asylum seekers, as exemplified by the cases of Buryat activist Alexander Bolokhoev and Peterburg anti-electoral fraud activist "Dimitry." Their stories are told by Julia Khazagaeva, Buryadmongol, Sota News, and New York Magazine.

"Eating seeds as a pastime activity": this all-star omnibus post features School of Rock, Martin Sheen, John Cusack, Slavoj Žižek, Russian political prisoner Mikhail Krieger, Shirley Manson, Memorial, Pussy Riot, Petersburg anti-war activist Yegor Shramko, Hanna Perekhoda, Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, Vladimir Putin, Heather Cox Richardson, and System of a Down.

This omnibus features profiles of Ukraine's youngest defenders; a snapshot of military aid to Ukraine; an account of how Russias systematically tortures Ukrainian POWs; a fundraising t-shirt that asks a question I've been asking here for the last 18 years; this week's News from Ukraine Bulletin; and a report on how Russia is erasing Mariupol's Ukrainian identity by stealing property.

"Blood is fuel. Hell is full. Devils are here": depaywalling is a civic duty in these desperate times.

Grim reflections by TV's "The Rookie," The Bulwark's Adrian Carrasquillo, and Dr. Stacey Patton on America's continuing, monstrous war on Black and Brown people, as exemplified by the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, the recent South Shore raid in Chicago, and ICE's systematic and demonstrative dehumanization of the people it abducts.

The documents and eyewitnesses collected in Russian Reader No. 2738 would lead only a fool conclude that Americans, Russians, and Israelis—as polities—love children. The evidence overwhelmingly points in the other direction.

TV series "High Potential," Stacey Patton, and James Sacré on the current scary conjuncture at home and elsewhere, and where it might lead us.

Andrei Khrzhanovsky is the son of controversial Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzanovsky. In 2022, Andrei emigrated to Israel, where he plunged into pro-Palestinian activism on the West Bank. Republic published this contentious interview with Khrzhanovsky in late July, but it has become only timelier since then, especially because Khrzhanovsky is a rarity: a Russian voice publicly denouncing Israel's actions as "genocide."

Los glaciares de las montañas Pamir, en Tayikistán, se están derritiendo a un ritmo alarmante, lo que tiene consecuencias para la agricultura y la energía hidroeléctrica en Asia Central.

BBC News Ruso recuerda las mayores protestas de la historia de Bielorrusia, cinco años después, mientras que la poeta bielorrusa Julia Cimafiejeva destaca la difícil situación de los numerosos presos políticos de su país, y el sello discográfico de música folclórica en el exilio Antonovka Records conmemora el aniversario con un lanzamiento del grupo tradicional bielorruso Kapela Rej.

The glaciers in Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains are melting at an alarming rate, with downstream implications for agriculture and hydropower in Central Asia.

BBC News Russian remembers the biggest protests in Belarusian history, five years on, while Belarusian poet Julia Cimafiejeva highlights the plight of her country's numerous political prisoners, and the exiled Russian folk music label Antonovka Records commemorates the anniversary with a release by the traditional Belarusian group Kapela Rej.

Led by fascist despots, Russia and the U.S. are brutally cracking down on immigrants even as they desperately need them to do the jobs white Russians and Americans won't do.

Carry your U.S. passport with you at all times and don't eat kimchi or speak a language other than English in public.

The Kyiv Independent makes an offer you shouldn't refuse as it raises funds for East SOS, and the tireless Ukraine Information Group digests all the news from and about Ukraine and Russia's war against it. auto_awesome Translate from: English 205 / 5,000 El periódico Kyiv Independent hace una oferta que no deberías rechazar mientras recauda fondos para East SOS, y el incansable Grupo de Información de Ucrania digiere todas las noticias de y sobre Ucrania y la guerra de Rusia contra este país.

El ex preso político soviético Alexander Podrabinek habla sobre la lucha de Valeria Zotova, actual presa política rusa y resistente a la guerra, contra las autoridades penitenciarias.

Former Soviet political prisoner Alexander Podrabinek on current Russian political prisoner and antiwar resister Valeria Zotova's one-woman fight against prison authorities.