Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist. Photo by Alexander Demyanchuk/TASS. Boris Kagarlitsky, an internationally renowned scholar and political activist, was arrested on July 25 by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). Despite his lifelong anti-terrorism stance, he is accused of “justifying terrorism” based on a blog post about the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Canadian Dimension: The coup that never happened
A crowd in Rostov-on-Don watching a Wagner tank with flowers sticking out of its muzzle, June 24, 2023. Photo by Fargoh/Wikimedia Commons. The most surprising thing about the mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his mercenaries from the Wagner Group is that the coup attempt was actively discussed in advance. Prigozhin
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Who wants to be Mussolini?
Vladimir Putin tours Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Concord food catering factory. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The repeated failures of the Russian army, combined with scandalous events such as the appearance of Ukrainian drones over elite suburbs of Moscow, caused something akin to patriotic hysteria among the supporters of the war. Everyone understands
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Cancelling a culture
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1894-1930), Soviet poet, playwright and graphic artist with some of his propaganda posters. Photo courtesy Sovfoto/Universal Images Group. In Yekaterinburg, which has a reputation for being a progressive and modern city, the famous case of Vera Zasulich, which captured the attention of the Russian public at the end
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Broken windows and broken lives
Russian opposition activist Konstantin Kotov protesting in support of Azat Miftakhov outside the General Prosecutor’s Office in Moscow, June 3, 2019. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. There is only one Russian political prisoner, Alexei Navalny, who is known in the West. In Russia itself, he is also the most famous among
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The tragedy of war
Smoke from burning debris fills a cemetery in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine. Photo by Bulent Kilic. The war between Russia and Ukraine has been raging for more than a year. The international left has been debating this war from the start without success in formulating any more or less coherent position
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