Apathy in Moscow
Few Russians actively support the brutal war on Ukraine, but years of depoliticisation have ground down any active opposition – resulting in a sense of stasis that now hangs over the capital.
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Eliot Rothwell
Eliot Rothwell is a writer based in Moscow.
London’s Red Bus to Smolensk
At the height of the post-Stalin ‘thaw,’ a self-organised group of young British travellers took a bus all the way to the Soviet Union – one of many innovative attempts to dissolve the boundaries of the Cold War.
Aleksei Navalny: Man for All Seasons
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is lionised by the Western press, but his actual politics are rarely interrogated – allowing him to align with hardline nationalists while appealing to a liberal audience.