Alexander Pravdin is 73 years old. He lives in a small village near St. Petersburg. He used to work as a doctor in a psychiatric hospital, then he became an entrepreneur and settled in the village. He began to speak out against the arbitrariness of the Russian authorities and draw posters about it. Of course, the authorities did not like it and they took away Alexander's business. But he does not give up.

We asked Alexander why he believes that Russia has stolen the future from the whole world, how his generation treats the war and the USSR and whether Russia will be free.

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Sources: 
About Alexander
Zeroing the Constitution of Russia
About Pravdin's detention
Mikhail Gorbachev
The collapse of the USSR
Back in USSR

Ekaterina Schulmann is a political scientist and publicist. She has been explaining the inevitable political processes, laws, and underlying logic that guides the Russian government for years. She has a big fan base In Russia and some people see her as the next president of the country. But now it’s even theoretically impossible since Ekaterina got listed as a foreign agent, as were many others who spoke their thoughts about Russian politics.

Ekaterina, as probably every rational person, was certain that war wasn't going to happen — and made a mistake. We talked to her about how the Russian citizens are forced to leave the country, what the Kremlin is afraid of, what future awaits Russian science, and why both Russia and Ukraine are at war with Hitler.

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Sources:
Smart voting 
About Meta and extremism
Carnegie fund
Emigration throughout its history
Mike Goldwin
Quote from Vladimir Putin
About the soldiers
The wars against Chechen separatists
The cat piano

As a policeman, this man tried to do everything in his power to ease the lives of political activists who came across his way. As a history teacher, he told children the truth about the war.

In this episode we tell the story of Andrei Shestakov, an ex-police officer and a former school teacher from the small town in Yakutia. He got a job at the school and refused to teach the false history of Russia and opposed the war. As a result, he was monitored by the FSB.

What changed his beliefs? And how did he cease to be the "dog of the regime" and become a part of the Russian resistance? Listen to his story in the episode.

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Sources:
Putin the devil 
Speech of Benito Mussolini
Ivan Ilyin
Police Ombudsman Project
Election fraud
https://vladimir-smi.ru/item/520163
https://zona.media/article/2022/04/23/enlightenment

It may sound surprising, but the Russians, Germans and even Ukrainians are on the same side. Our goal is to confront the corrupt financial and political elites across Europe. Why and how did it happen? Russian sociologist Grigory Yudin answers this question.

We discussed why the country for which the victory over fascism was so important, arranges flash mobs in support of a new war; why Russians perceive politics as a clownery and what we need to do to stop Putin’s actions.

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Sources:
https://istories.media/reportages/2022/04/25/vi-chto-duri-vi-pochemu-protiv-rodini/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4qPXZK_S08
https://www.bbc.com/russian/international/2011/10/111020_gaddafi_endgame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwr3wa9dFW0
https://mbk-news.appspot.com/news/100k-vishli-na-ulici/
https://www.proekt.media/narrative/rating-putina/
https://meduza.io/feature/2022/06/02/bolshoy-nemetskiy-razvorot
https://meduza.io/feature/2022/07/01/uvy-delo-ne-v-russkih

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest art group. They became famous in 2012 after the performance in Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior named "Punk Prayer: Mother of God Drive Putin Away". The band members were detained several times, and two of them were sentenced to two years in prison for a punk-style prayer. 

Pussy Riot stands up for women's rights, criticizes the dictatorship and promotes freedom of thought. Of course, they did not stand aside in 2022, when the war between Russia and Ukraine began.

We spoke with Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina about her European tour, political art, and why she's been protesting against Putin regime for more than 10 years .

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Sources:
https://news.sky.com/story/pussy-riot-burn-putin-in-new-video-10470717
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUmxCmJwmpA 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3y82xts8Sc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s-ZN2yZzWw

Two days after the war has started, Russian feminists created a horizontal organization that has been in the forefront of anti-war protest for over 4 months now. Thousands of activists in 112 cities across the country engage in underground forms of resistance, organize help for the refugees and save those who face political repressions. 

How women became the true face of the anti-war movement in Russia? We’ll try to figure it out with Daria Serenko, Russian feminist poet and activist. 

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Sources
https://lefteast.org/russian-anti-war-movement-why-women-protest/
http://www.owl.ru/win/books/rw/o2_1.htm
https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/k-istorii-zhenskogo-voprosa-v-sssr-v-pervye-postrevolyutsionnye-gody
https://t.me/mbknorthwest/17139
https://t.me/femagainstwar/289

The band “Nogu Svelo!” was created in the 1980s and quickly became known throughout the crumbling Soviet Union. Soviet censorship fell apart and the authorities stopped pressuring artists and musicians. That was the time of hope for a better future. 

30 years later, the band’s concerts and music tours are getting canceled in Russia because the musicians don't support the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In this episode musician Maxim Pokrovskiy tells why his band wasn’t allowed to perform in Ukraine, what are the destructive consequences of celebrities' silence about the war, and how music unites people. 

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Songs mentioned in the episode:
«We don't need war».
«Ukraine».
«Russia, Go Home!».

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Today, even the smallest protest in Russia might lead to years in prison. We’ve hardly seen such absurd verdicts since Stalin’s Great Terror in the 30s.

This is the story of Sasha Skochilenko — St. Petersburg artist and musician. Sasha did a tiny anti-war performance in a local supermarket. But after it was reported, the police organized a whole operation to capture Skochilenko. Together with Sasha’s girlfriend Sonya we are telling her story.

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«Why don’t Russians protest?»

Well, we might not see millions in the streets, but the resistance is there. While the civil servants paint over hundreds of new anti-war graffiti, people in Russia are protesting and making their voices heard on social media despite risking their freedom. 

Together with activists, journalists, artists, and people who can’t keep silent we’ll discuss how we, Russians, lost our freedom, why keep fighting and why there’s still hope. 

This podcast is produced by Paper Media — an independent media from St Petersburg. We’ve been reporting on the Russian-Ukrainian war since the day it started. As a result, our website was blocked by the Russian government. 

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