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Cover for: Defining censorship during a conflict

Defining censorship during a conflict

Is Ukraine right to block media from Russia?

Western commentators have lambasted Ukraine’s decision to ban Russian media, TV and film. But Mykola Riabchuk argues that attacking the move as censorship ignores its context: namely, Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.

Valle de los Caídos

The authorities in Spain are increasingly cracking down on public criticism, with comedians amongst those most at risk.

Cover for: Fast-food ideology

Political scientist Michael Freeden talks to Slovene journal Razpotja about rightwing populism’s sub-ideological fantasies, anti-liberalism and political dogmatism, and why there can be no such thing as a democracy without deficits.

Cover for: The hippies of Soviet Lviv

Hippies are well known as a phenomenon of the West. But this counterculture, which inspired an entire generation, took root in an unlikely place – the Soviet Union of the 1970s.

Cover for: The second transition

The second transition

How Slovenia’s drivers reveal a deeper truth about their society

Perhaps selfish driving isn’t just an irritating character flaw. It could indicate the need for a wider change in social attitudes.

Cover for: Decriminalizing childbirth

Decriminalizing childbirth

Trying to break a centuries-old cycle of obstetric violence

Giving birth at home was only recently legalized in Hungary, and one of its leading advocates still faces prosecution. Attitudes towards birth touch on the history of medicine, the place of women in society, and why mothers feel compelled to pay bribes to have their children delivered.

Cover for: The end of the era of endings

Many things to many people, postmodernism is notable for the endings it has brought about in many fields. But is it now curtains for postmodernism itself?

Cover for: Russia: Did liberals bury liberalism?

Liberalism as an ideology and a political movement has failed to take deep root in Russian society. It had a chance to do so immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but today the chances for its rebirth are tiny. Instead, “systemic liberals” have become instrumental in ensuring the survival of a personalized power system.

Cover for: ‘Don’t let the facts spoil a good story’

‘Don’t let the facts spoil a good story’

Russian journalism from Gorbachev to Putin

The ethos of journalistic independence that flourished in the USSR during glasnost degenerated, in the following decades, into political partisanship and commercial opportunism. In today’s Russia, self-censorship and tact are regarded as survival skills in a much-diminished sector.

Cover for: Now who’s living in truth?

The dissident vocabulary of anti-politics is currently in vogue, but often misconstrued. The anti-political critique of ideology moves comfortably across the political spectrum, and today’s anti-politician can become tomorrow’s ideologue.

Cover for: Once more, with feeling

The notion that fiction is a force for moral good derives from the age of revolution. But imaginative empathy does not always translate into egalitarian politics, argues Lyndsey Stonebridge. What do we want our books to do that we cannot?

Cover for: Generation Putin

Generation Putin

Why Russian youth has disappointed hopes for democratic change

Russia’s younger generation have failed to build upon the democratic achievements of their predecessors of the 1990s. Surveys show a reversion to Soviet-era conformism, whether as passivity and cynicism, or individualism and status obsession.

Cover for: The ‘Russian World’ in Germany

Pro-Kremlin propaganda spread through social media is causing a shift to the far-Right among Germany’s native Russian population. Nikolai Mitrokhin considers the implications for German politics in advance of the September elections.

Cover for: The arithmetic of otherness

The arithmetic of otherness

‘Donbas’ in Ukrainian intellectual discourse

Western Ukrainian intellectuals’ tendency to blame the Donbas for the war is based on a longstanding orientalization of the ‘Soviet’ Other. Reminiscences about erstwhile cultural diversity sit awkwardly alongside hostility to the East.

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