Russia’s future and the war
1. Today, to talk about the future of Russia is like talking about life after death. Russia is in the midst of catastrophe, and horror grips us when we think of what Russia has already done, or what our compatriots...
CULTURE
A tradition of moral defiance
Alexei Navalny is being mourned as Russia’s most daring, sophisticated and Western-looking politician. Yet Navalny’s political struggle with tyranny, which ended in an Arctic penal colony in what looks like state-sponsored murder, makes his ‘life and fate’ very Russian –...
Antisemitism, anti-Palestinian racism and Europe
In May 2023, we published an essay in De Nederlandse Boekengids/The Dutch Review of Books about the responsibility of Europe and European institutions towards the situation in Israel and Palestine. This was a few months after the last Netanyahu cabinet...
The never-ending lessons of war
How can we learn to live next to violent deaths, mass graves, and knowledge of rape and torture? When looking for an answer to this question, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine yet after its occupation of Crimea and war...
On fascization | Eurozine
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. George Orwell Are there any movements currently in power in Europe, or on their way to power, that can be called fascist?...
No longer in tune | Eurozine
In 1827, while walking in the Sparrow Hills above Moscow, the poet Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877) and the writer and philosopher Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) made an oath to one another that they would dedicate their lives to the struggle for freedom...
What has the internet ever done for us?
“The year 1983 was crucial in many ways…” Walter Famler describes the geopolitical landscape in which the beginnings of a common publishing project emerged. From the Cold War division of Europe arose a need to reach out and share...
Swedish giants | Eurozine
In Liberal Debatt, Thea Andersson calls for a break in the deadlock afflicting recent Swedish politics. At a time when Swedish governments are based on long and heavily negotiated agreements, forming fractious coalitions, words alone have lost their power. Andersson...
Ukrainian refugees with HIV adjust to care abroad
When Anna Aryabinska fled from Kyiv in March 2022 with her ex-partner’s children, she had little idea that she would end up supporting not only his family, but many HIV-positive Ukrainians in Poland. Until Russia’s full-scale invasion, Aryabinska had been...
Russlands Zukunft und der Krieg
I. Wenn wir heute über die Zukunft Russlands sprechen, ist das in gewissem Sinne wie ein Gespräch über das Leben nach dem Tod. Russland befindet sich mitten in einer Katastrophe, der Krieg geht immer weiter und das Grauen erfasst uns,...
