“They Also Used to Laugh at Hitler”

The second article in the “Unordinary Fascism” series — Andreas Umland dwells about the right-wing tendencies and explains to Dmitry Okrest why the Russian special military operation is fascist and how Dugin is overrated

Living by Comparison

How do the new immigrants from Putin’s Russia perceive the state of Israel? What are their political views and social stances? How do those who value rights and freedoms perceive the Israeli ethnocracy? Anthropologists Julia Lerner and Varvara Preter on the new wave of Russian immigrants

The Chinese Dream for Russian People

The fifth text in the “Inequality” series: social scientist Alya Denisenko looks at the meaning of imaginary China for Russians justifying the war in Ukraine

Global Post-Fascism and the War in Ukraine

Here is the first piece in the “Unordinary Fascism” series: a conversation between Ilya Budraitskis and historian Enzo Traverso about the global rise of post-fascism, Putin’s Russia, and the war in Ukraine

The Majority Does Not Exist

The fourth text in the “Inequality” series: on the LGBTQ+ movement in Russia, hierarchical communities and the ethics of modern activism

Unspoken Authoritarianism

How is the Russian-Ukrainian war being covered in Uzbekistan? How does the metropole continue to influence, through this coverage, the periphery? What is it like to tell the truth after 25 years of censorship? Vera Sukhina, the founder of an independent media outlet in Tashkent, writes on freedom of speech and the news coverage in today’s Uzbekistan

“They Also Used to Laugh at Hitler”

The second article in the “Unordinary Fascism” series — Andreas Umland dwells about the right-wing tendencies and explains to Dmitry Okrest why the Russian special military operation is fascist and how Dugin is overrated

Living by Comparison

How do the new immigrants from Putin’s Russia perceive the state of Israel? What are their political views and social stances? How do those who value rights and freedoms perceive the Israeli ethnocracy? Anthropologists Julia Lerner and Varvara Preter on the new wave of Russian immigrants

The Chinese Dream for Russian People

The fifth text in the “Inequality” series: social scientist Alya Denisenko looks at the meaning of imaginary China for Russians justifying the war in Ukraine

Global Post-Fascism and the War in Ukraine

Here is the first piece in the “Unordinary Fascism” series: a conversation between Ilya Budraitskis and historian Enzo Traverso about the global rise of post-fascism, Putin’s Russia, and the war in Ukraine

The Majority Does Not Exist

The fourth text in the “Inequality” series: on the LGBTQ+ movement in Russia, hierarchical communities and the ethics of modern activism