Lucian Kim

Ilya Yashin’s evolution from protest leader to persecuted dissident mirrors the metamorphosis of Putin’s “managed democracy” into a totalitarian state.

“We aren’t waiting for the fall of the regime,” said Lyubov Sobol. “We’re actively working toward it and want to get there as fast as possible.”

“The disintegration of Russia is inevitable,” said Zarina Sautieva. “If chaos breaks out in the Kremlin, Kadyrov will be the first to declare independence.”

Da sein Geschichtsverständnis höchst selektiv und politisch verzerrt ist, ist Putins Versuch, die Welt neu zu ordnen, zum Scheitern verurteilt.

Vladimir Putin's obsession with the past is consuming thousands of lives, wreaking destruction on Ukraine and threatening Russia’s own future.

The main difference between Ukraine and Russia is that Ukrainians have become citizens of their own country, while Russians remain subjects of their ruler.

For the first time in my 25-year career as a journalist, I broke down in tears at the news.

“We lived very well without electricity,” Tatyana says. “All day we were busy, walking in the woods exploring. And in the evenings, we would sit around a kerosene lamp and play Monopoly.”

"Our job is to give people the chance to make up their own minds," says Natalya Sindeyeva. "They should decide for themselves if they want to be deceived."

"We now joke that Belarus is even farther north than North Korea. We're living under the conditions of a real fascist regime."