Putin’s anti-war political prisoners in Russia

Putin’s anti-war political prisoners in Russia

A recording of a panel at the Socialism 2025 conference, which examines Russian President Vladimir Putin’s repression of activists who have publicly opposed his war of aggression against Ukraine.

How protesters use Russia’s courts to denounce the war on Ukraine

Simon Pirani introduces a talk he gave recently about a new book he is editing, Voices Against Putin’s War: Protesters’ Defiant Speeches in Russian Courts. “I am using this trial as a tribune from which to denounce the war publicly,” Dmitry Ivanov told a Moscow court, just before it sentenced him to eight-and-a-half years’ imprisonment […]