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Patriotism in Russia: National Idea or Propaganda?

Details: 28 June 2016

Early this year Vladimir Putin claimed that the search for Russia’s national idea is finally over: he named patriotism as the only possible concept that can unite the country. The Institute of Modern Russia has been studying Russian patriotism for the last three years, and our research shows that the authorities have been trying to “monopolize” patriotism and use it to manipulate public opinion for a long time now. Today, we are presenting the overall results of our project Faces of Russian Patriotism.

Andrei Pivovarov: the Victim of Kostroma

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Andrei Pivovarov: the Victim of Kostroma

Details: 25 September 2015; Ezekiel Pfeifer

Russia’s liberal opposition knew the chips were stacked against it in recent elections in the conservative Kostroma region. What opposition leaders did not expect was that their campaign manager and fellow politician Andrei Pivovarov would be suddenly arrested on trumped-up charges. In the latest installment of its ongoing series profiling Russia’s political prisoners, IMR examines Pivovarov’s case.

Russia’s Political Prisoners: Yevgeny Vitishko

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Russia’s Political Prisoners: Yevgeny Vitishko

Details: 28 January 2015; Boris Bruk

The Institute of Modern Russia continues its series of articles dedicated to Russian political prisoners. This article is dedicated to the Krasnodar environmentalist Yevgeny Vitishko, who in 2012 faced charges in the “Tkachev’s dacha” case.

Russia’s Political Prisoners: The Updated List

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Russia’s Political Prisoners: The Updated List

Details: 10 December 2014

The Institute of Modern Russia publishes the updated list of persons recognized as political prisoners by Russia’s Memorial Human Rights Center, as it stands on October 30, 2014.

Russia’s Political Prisoners: Alexei Polikhovich

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Russia’s Political Prisoners: Alexei Polikhovich

Details: 10 December 2014; Boris Bruk

The Institute of Modern Russia continues its series of articles dedicated to Russian political prisoners with a profile of Alexei Polikhovich, a student at the Russian State Social University (RSSU) and a defendant in the “first wave” of the Bolotnaya trials. He is currently being held in penal colony in the Ryazan region.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky Speaks in Oslo in Defense of Russia’s Political Prisoners

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky Speaks in Oslo in Defense of Russia’s Political Prisoners

Details: 23 October 2014

On October 22, founder of the Open Russia movement Mikhail Khodorkovsky spoke at the 2014 Oslo Freedom Forum. His speech was dedicated to Russia’s political prisoners, in particular the “Bolotnaya Case” prisoners. The highlights of his speech are summarized by IMR.

Russia’s Political Prisoners: Yaroslav Beloussov

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Russia’s Political Prisoners: Yaroslav Beloussov

Details: 04 September 2014; Boris Bruk

The Institute of Modern Russia continues its series of articles dedicated to Russian political prisoners with a profile of Yaroslav Beloussov, a political science student at Moscow State University and a defendant in the “first wave” of the Bolotnaya trials. On September 8, 2014, after two years and three months of imprisonment, Beloussov is due to be released.

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The Bolotnaya “Justice”

Details: 20 August 2014; Dmitry Borko

On August 18, 2014, the Moscow City Court convicted four defendants in the “second wave” of the Bolotnaya Square case. Alexei Gaskarov and Alexander Margolin each received three and a half years in prison colonies; Ilya Gushchin received two and a half years of imprisonment; and Elena Kokhtareva, who pled guilty, was sentenced to three years and three months suspended. In a special article for IMR, social defender and journalist Dmitry Borko summarizes the results of this politically motivated criminal case.

The Bolotnaya Case: Another Guilty Verdict

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The Bolotnaya Case: Another Guilty Verdict

Details: 25 July 2014; Julia Polukhina

On July 24, two activists from the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev, were found guilty of organizing mass disorder on May 6, 2012. The defendants in this politically motivated case were sentenced to terms of 4.5 years each. Julia Polukhina, the Novaya Gazeta correspondent who covered this trial, summarizes the results of the latest episode of the Bolotnaya cases specially for IMR.

Russia’s Political Prisoners: Ilya Gushchin

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Russia’s Political Prisoners: Ilya Gushchin

Details: 09 July 2014; Boris Bruk

The Institute of Modern Russia continues its series of articles dedicated to Russian political prisoners with a portrait of Ilya Gushchin, opposition activist, member of the National Democratic Party, and defendant in the “second wave” of the Bolotnaya trials.

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Patriotism in Russia: National Idea or Propaganda?

Andrei Pivovarov: the Victim of Kostroma

Russia’s Political Prisoners: Yevgeny Vitishko

Russia’s Political Prisoners: The Updated List

Russia’s Political Prisoners: Alexei Polikhovich

Mikhail Khodorkovsky Speaks in Oslo in Defense of Russia’s Political Prisoners

Russia’s Political Prisoners: Yaroslav Beloussov

The Bolotnaya “Justice”

The Bolotnaya Case: Another Guilty Verdict

Russia’s Political Prisoners: Ilya Gushchin

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