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«I understand that Ukrainians may not want to watch this film right now.» Interview with the author of «Russian Winter»
The documentary «Russian Winter,» filmed with clear sympathy for political émigrés from Russia, was screened at the Berlin Film Festival during days when residents of Ukrainian cities were suffering from the cold under Russian bombardment. But Austrian director Patrick Chiha did not change the title.
#antiwaremigrationfromRussia #berlinale #WarinUkraine #lifeinexile #interview #movie #criticism #festivals #Emigration
Are Blue-Collar Jobs More Practical Than White-Collar? Why the Number of University Applicants in Russia Is Falling
The sharp drop in university admissions last year is easy to explain by government policy, where «loyalty is valued over intelligence.» But the reasons for the crisis in higher education run much deeper.
#state #discussion #lifeinRussia #career #acrisis #education #society #aftertheUSSR #universities
Russia Needs Women’s Politics. For Now, Patriarchy Reigns Instead
There are women in the country ready to change politics and society. But mostly, only those who do not challenge the system make it into power. Dissenters are pushed out of politics or subjected to repression.
#activizi #AnnaPolitkovskaya #ValentinaMatvienko #ValentinaTereshkova #power #state #democracy #dictatorship #Europeanvalues #women #patriarchy #Putin #repressions #Russia #feminism #essay
The Mamdani Effect Didn’t Happen. Why the Rich Aren’t Fleeing New York
On the eve of socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoral election, many predicted a mass exodus of the wealthy from the city. However, two months after his inauguration, millionaires have not gone anywhere despite a proposed city tax for the ultra-rich.
#America #elections #DemocraticPartyoftheUnitedStates #ZohranMamdani #leftandright #millionaires #Taxation #inequality #NewYork #neutral
165 years since the abolition of serfdom. Why this date went unnoticed in Russia
In addition to the anniversary of Alexander II's main reform, it was recently 145 years since his assassination. Yet in the Russian information space, there was hardly any mention of either the abolition of serfdom or the fate of the Tsar-Liberator: his policies do not align well with the beliefs of the current authorities.
#1861 #power #state #civilsociety #historicalmemory #Russianhistory #theendoftheworld #criticofcapitalism #liberalreforms #monarchy #abolitionofserfdom #TsarLiberator #essay
Russia is increasingly falling behind developed countries in terms of education. Is this a coincidence or a systemic policy?
From 2019 to 2024, the share of high school graduates entering universities in Russia dropped from 86% to 60%. In most developed countries during the same period, access to higher education continued to grow — since the modern economy demands increasingly complex skills.
#future #WarinUkraine #west #education #aftertheUSSR #forecast #Russia #statistics #theuniversity #school #expertise
Shabbat Shalom, War Has Begun. The First Day of Iranian Strikes on Israel Through the Eyes of a Haifa Resident
The author of «The Bridge» spent the day under sirens and shelling. A personal account
#security #Israel #Iran #IranIsraelwar #personalexperience #society #Haifa #Emigration
US and Israeli Military Operation Against Iran: What This Means for the Global Economy
A tanker is burning in the Strait of Hormuz, iconic skyscrapers are ablaze in the UAE, and a port is on fire in Oman… Iran has announced strikes on American bases in neighboring countries, but is targeting the most sensitive sites for its neighbors. If the hostilities drag on, the consequences could be felt worldwide.
#2026 #AmericanIsraeliIranian #Analytics #war #Israel #Iran #theproperty #oil #UnitedArabEmirates #SaudiArabia #USA #transport #tourism #consequences
11 years since the murder of Boris Nemtsov. How this crime changed Russia
On February 27, 2015, politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in the center of Moscow. Since then, Russia has changed radically—not only politically, but morally as well. This crime became the point after which the authorities realized: nothing will happen for killing an opponent.
#BorisNemtsov #VladimirPutin #power #WarinUkraine #warinChechnya #violence #Nemtsovka #memory #policy #criminalpunishmentandpunishment #Russia #securityforces #murder #essay
Every Fifth Job Opening Is in Sales. How the Labor Market Turns a Person into Sisyphus
Somewhere in a beautiful society of the future, which we will never see, the profession of sales manager will be classified as highly toxic, psychologically traumatic, and requiring rehabilitation after dismissal. Rehabs will open for former salespeople, and corporations will be required to pay them compensation for years spent in open-space offices where they were told: «If you didn't meet your KPI, you don't deserve love, lunch, health, or a roof over your head.»
#lifeinRussia #Camus #career #associations #acrisis #violence #neoliberalism #inequality #postindustrialsociety #market #Sisyphus #LaborandCapital #essay
Tajik Transit in Question. Emomali Rahmon Won’t Relinquish Power, Even for His Son
Tajikistan is the only post-Soviet country where power has not changed hands since the early 1990s. The president long ago chose his eldest son, Rustam Emomali, as his successor, but the transfer of authority is constantly postponed.
#Analytics #universaloutput #aftertheUSSR #securityforces #Tajikistan #transitofpower #CentralAsia #EmomaliRahmon
«Carry the coffin longer so there will be more honors.» How war dead are buried in Moscow during the war in Ukraine
In the four years since the start of the Special Military Operation, military funerals in Russia have become entirely routine. Funeral brigade workers do not openly condemn the war, but their negative attitude toward what is happening becomes clear in conversation.
#WarinUkraine #lifeinRussia #everydayculture #personalexperience #MinistryofDefense #society #thefuneral #deathinRussia
The President of Kyrgyzstan has launched a large-scale purge of officials. The first to go was his friend—the head of the National Security Committee
After the resignation of the head of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan, Kamchybek Tashiev, President Sadyr Japarov has begun a sweeping purge of officials. The apparent goal is to bring the entire system of state governance under his control and become the sole center of power. Achieving this won’t be easy: over the past five years, Tashiev concentrated a significant share of managerial and economic decisions in his own hands, and it’s far from clear that Japarov will be able to fill this vacuum—or hold on to power.
#Analytics #power #corruption #sell #Saharabypass #aftertheUSSR #securityforces #specialservices #CentralAsia
Non-Imperial History: The Zaporozhian Cossacks. The Beginning
The history of the formation of the Cossacks in the territories of modern Ukraine and Russia had common features and causes. But there was also one fundamental difference. While in Russia the Cossacks are considered a separate, specific part of the Russian people (although some Cossacks categorically define themselves as a separate ethnic group), in Ukraine they are an integral and, without quotation marks, state-forming part of the Ukrainian nation. So the words of the anthem, «І покажем, що ми, браття, козацького роду» («And we will show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack lineage»), are not just a beautiful metaphor.
#Dimoit #GoldenHorde #quality #Lithuania #Muscovy #nonimperialhistory #Poland #PolishLithuanianCommonwealth #Russia #Ukraine #frontier #Interests
«I don’t think Trump will quickly back away from tightening the screws on migrants. But adjustments are possible.»
In January 2026, the human rights organization Russian America for Democracy in Russia (RADR) succeeded in stopping the deportation of nine Russians from the US back to Russia. We spoke with RADR President Dmitry Valuev about how this works amid mass protests against President Trump’s anti-immigration policies.
#VladislavKrasnov #deportation #DmitryValuev #interview #Iran #migrationpolicy #populism #Russia #USA #Trump #Emigration
A Hero of Our Time. In Memory of Alexei Navalny
Today marks two years since the death of Alexei Navalny. On the eve of the anniversary, five countries (the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands) issued an official statement that several independent laboratories had confirmed his poisoning with an extremely toxic substance—in essence, a chemical weapon. Only the Russian authorities had both the means and the motive to use it in the polar colony. On the anniversary of Navalny’s murder, the editorial team of «Most.Media» publishes a polemical essay by our reader I.B. from Russia. The anonymity requested by the author is necessary: the Russian authorities continue political repression against Navalny’s supporters even after his death.
#democracy #dictatorship #discussion #historicalmemory #Bulk #opposition #aftertheUSSR #BeautifulRussiaoftheFuture #Putin #householdtype #repressions #Russia #Sakharov #freedom #thick #themurderofAlexeiNavalny #FBK #Christianity #essay
Russian Anti-War Activist Vladislav Krasnov Arrested in the US During Routine ICE Visit
«It's not like I'm hiding — if the immigration court wants to find me, they can do it anywhere, if they want to,» Vladislav Krasnov told «Most» in an interview at the end of last year. A US federal court denied the active supporter of Alexei Navalny political asylum in March 2025, after he had already spent 444 days in American immigration detention centers in conditions close to torture. Now Vladislav is set to be deported to Russia, where he faces arrest.
#antiwaractivists #deportation #Bulk #Putin #repressions #Russia #USA #Trump #Emigration
Personal experience: a journalist goes to work at a cemetery
Khovanskoye Cemetery, January 27, two o'clock in the afternoon. A group of four people stands by a black minivan. They are dressed in identical black jackets and hats. Next to them, on metal trestles, is a four-sided coffin with no handles. People in work uniforms are nailing the base of the coffin. About 5 meters from the coffin—just one grave away—stand several gravediggers, ready to take the coffin in their hands and lower it into the grave. We only need to cover those 5 meters. But three out of the four people in black take turns falling, bumping the bottoms of the coffin into the grave fences. Only the fourth one managed to stay on his feet. That was me.
#WarinUkraine #lifeinRussia #everydayculture #personalexperience #Moscow #society #precariat #reportage #deathinRussia #LaborandCapital
«You can’t outplay the secret services on their own turf.» A long conversation about the participants in the famous Sinyavsky and Daniel trial
Exactly 60 years ago, the USSR began the trial of writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, which marked the beginning of the Soviet dissident movement. One of the prosecution witnesses at this trial was the Orientalist Sergei Khmelnitsky — the father of historian of Soviet secret services and «Most» columnist Dmitry Khmelnitsky. Dmitry himself was 12 years old at the time. A couple of years later, Dmitry learned that his father had been a secret NKVD informant, whose denunciation in the late 1940s led to the arrest and imprisonment of two of his friends. After being released during the Khrushchev Thaw, they publicly exposed Sergei Khmelnitsky, and all his close friends turned away from him. Among them was Andrei Sinyavsky. However, few people know that the famous writer himself was recruited by the NKVD at the same time as Khmelnitsky and continued to cooperate with the KGB. Dmitry tells how it all happened in his forthcoming book «Khmelnitsky, Sinyavsky, and the KGB.»
#dissidents #denunciations #interview #historicalmemory #kgb #personalexperience #thaw #SinyavskyandDaniel #repressionsintheUSSR #parentsandchildren #specialservices #France #Emigration
In four years, Russia has lost 20 times more people in Ukraine than the USSR did in ten years in Afghanistan
At the end of January, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published updated data on casualties in the Russia-Ukraine war. According to analysts’ estimates, the total number of killed, wounded, and missing amounts to 1.8 million people. Of these, 1.2 million are Russian losses, and 600,000 are Ukrainian losses.
#Analytics #warinAfghanistan #WarinUkraine #Zelensky #aftertheUSSR #every #Putin #Russia #statistics #Ukraine