Reports that authorities in Chechnya have been rounding up gay people have been verified by human rights groups.
Early reports emerged last week that gay people are being targeted in the region , which is part of Russia but has substantial autonomy.
Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported (...)
Moscow’s rogue client has destroyed the country’s ability to present itself as an indispensable arbiter in the conflict.
This morning, Moscow woke up to the news that the U.S. had hit an air base in Homs, Syria, in retaliation for Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Idlib province. This (...)
After enjoying a rapprochement with the European Union over the past three years, Belarus - a country with a fluctuating political and human rights record - diverted from this path and returned to its habit of brutal crackdowns on protests.
Since late 2014 Minsk has been demonstrating a (...)
How ‘Freedom Day’ went in Belarus, and what to expect next: comments from Belarusian activists
On 25 May 2017, demonstrations marking Freedom Day took place in cities across Belarus (Freedom Day is the anniversary of the announcement of the self-proclaimed Belarusian People’s Republic on 25 March (...)
The protesters in Moldova are more than pawns in a geopolitical game between Russia and the West.
An independent republic since 1991, Moldova is today known in the Western media as the “poorest country in Europe.” In the years since the dismantling of the Soviet bloc, poverty became widespread (...)
A few days ago came the 16th anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s rule, which is traditionally celebrated by endless fantasies on the theme of ‘Russia after Putin’. This intellectual exercise, which is constantly reproduced by the liberal opposition media, has an obvious therapeutic function: no one (...)
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Was it correct and efficient on internationalist point of view to chose one “main enemy” (and “camp”) during the Kosovo’s crisis and war (1999) – and in Ukraine, after Maidan’s upsurge, Yanukovich’s fall, Russian’s annexation of Crimea and “hybrid war” in Donbas? This article argues against (...)
Ukraine has banned a party that is neither communist nor dangerous – clearing the way for a new left loyal to neither Russia nor the west.
An anti-communist hysteria is prevailing in Kiev. After banning Soviet symbols earlier this year , a court has now outlawed the Communist party of Ukraine, (...)
Banning the Communist Party in Ukraine is a flagrant violation of freedom of expression and association and should be immediately overturned, said Amnesty International.
The District Administrative Court of Kyiv upheld the request of the Ukrainian Minister of Justice to ban the Communist (...)
On October 31st during a rock concert in the underground club Colective in Bucharest a fire broke out, killing 27 and injuring another 200. Almost a fortnight after the total number of casualties reached 54, with many more still in critical condition in hospital.
This was the biggest tragedy (...)
This interview was originally published in Russian on www.yuga.ru and translated for LeftEast by Adam Leeds.
How would you describe the ideology of the ruling regime in contemporary Russia? On what values rests that which some call “Putinism”? What is behind the facade of all this speech about (...)
Three months after the signing of the Minsk-2 agreements, it is clear that the road to peace still seems very long. Ukraine today is characterized by very strong contrasts between the majority of the country, which has not experienced war, and the Donbass, where since April 2014 the forces of (...)
A person of influence on the thinking the western left on Ukraine has been the Russian writer Boris Kagarlitsky Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements. Whilst the pro-war views of the Moscow based Kagarlitsky have been accepted without criticism in some quarters – in (...)
Note from editors: The following editorial was published on the Russian leftist website Open Left in response to the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov on Friday 27 February 2015.
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We demand a transparent investigation and an immediate end to propaganda that incites hatred. (...)
Only 1 out of 10 people living in “transition” countries have seen a successful transition to capitalism and more democracy.
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, what does the balance sheet of so-called “transition” countries (even if the term is no longer fully adequate) look (...)
Paris, 31 October 2014 – Between 23 October and 2 November 2014 the authorities of Moscow are implementing “Operation Migrant 2014", aimed at cracking down on “illegal” migration. 7000 migrants were arrested in the first four days during mass raids in which police have used violence. FIDH and ADC « (...)
Below is a short note on the first results of the parliamentary elections of 26 October.
There then follows an article by Alexandr Volodarsky, a Ukrainian anarchist who is a native of Luhansk, a city which is at present occupied city by militias armed by Russia, and who took part in the (...)
With Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the military conflict in eastern Ukraine, the era of post-Soviet tolerance of blurred identities and multiple loyalties has ended. Borderlands, writes Tatiana Zhurzhenko, have once again turned into bloodlands.
Since the armed conflict in Donbas between (...)
In this guest post, KIRILL BUKETOV of the Global Labour Institute in Geneva comments on the nature of Russian imperialism. (Note: a gendarmerie is a military force that carries out police duties among civilian populations.)
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Stalinists of all hues and colours are (...)
Nina Potarskaya is one of the leading Ukrainian leftist feminists, founder of the feminist squadron at Maidan, and member of the Left Opposition, which helped organize three successive conferences of left forces in Kiev, in November 2013, March 2014, and September 2014. The most recent (...)
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