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When repressive states choose terror over death
News, Alan Clements, Published on 23/01/2026
» Fyodor Dostoevsky -- one of the few writers to survive state terror and return with a psychology sharp enough to indict it.
PM's resignation opens the door to a chaotic era
News, Gearoid Reidy, Published on 16/08/2024
» In the end, Fumio Kishida could not escape the pull of gravity.
How Tolstoy hurts Putin's attempt to rewrite history
Oped, Jacob Lassin, Published on 10/08/2022
» On April 10, Moscow police arrested Konstantin Goldman for brandishing a book in public. Mr Goldman had posted an image on social media in which he posed holding a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace next to a section of a World War II monument that commemorates Kyiv's status as a Soviet "hero-city" -- a distinction given to cities that endured some of the harshest moments of the Nazi invasion. He was charged with violating Russia's prohibition against discrediting the military, a new law that carries a punishment of up to 15 years in jail.