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Beyond Secular Critique? The Trial Speech of Yegor Zhukov
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Beyond Secular Critique? The Trial Speech of Yegor Zhukov

by Dmitry Uzlaner The wave of political protests sparked by irregularities during the 2018 mayoral election in Moscow led to a number of arrests of activists and protesters. One of them, a student, Yegor Zhukov, was tried and convicted at the beginning of December 2019 and sentenced to three years of probation. This case, among other…

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The Russian “Matilda” Controversy <br><span style='color:#8D8381;font-size:18px;'>The Politics of Religious Feelings</span>
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The Russian “Matilda” Controversy
The Politics of Religious Feelings

Karl Marx famously said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. The truth of this statement can be witnessed these days in Russia when looking at the controversies surrounding the film Matilda, due to show in Russian cinemas on October 26th, 2017. The street protests of groups of Orthodox believers, the charges…

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