August 15, 2023

How They Tried to Kill Me
I want to live
New and from the archives: n+1 authors on Ukraine
August 15, 2023
I want to live
There is no justice in Russia
When I hear the calls to “cancel” Russian culture, I think: Go ahead and kill me, too. I have no other path, no other identity besides being an artist. I can’t change my blood, and you’ll never grant me any citizenship.
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November 22, 2022
The seeds for the rise of Putin were sown by the democrats of the early 1990s. That is what Furman saw.
November 11, 2022
“Those boys were just cannon fodder. And for what?”
May 9, 2022
There are few post-Soviet conflicts in which he has not participated
In 2017 Strelkov came up with the idea of holding a televised debate with Alexey Navalny, who agreed to participate. One hundred and fifty thousand people tuned in. Strelkov’s principal accusations against Navalny included not just his betrayal of Russian nationalism (he claimed his opponent “never once referred to [ethnic] Russians, only citizens of the Russian Federation”), but also the claim that Navalny’s economic program was incapable of dismantling the “total system of corruption” that defines Russian life. As one of the moderators put it, “they’ve spent an hour calling each other Putin.”
April 22, 2022
Be like little children. Do not be afraid to ask (yourselves and others) what is good and what is bad.
April 6, 2022
It’s important that I describe all of this, record the material circumstances in which my fate is being decided.
April 6, 2022
The antiwar movement is by and large anonymous.
April 6, 2022
This totalitarian essence, the repressive essence of these institutions, it never went anywhere.
March 24, 2022
That which cannot be named on the Russian internet
Does what used to lend meaning to our lives make sense any longer? Of course everything will return, but it will return just as weak as before, and fall just as easily as soon as some thug takes a swing at it.
March 17, 2022
In Mykolaiv
“They seemed completely indifferent, the Russians. They didn’t even care that the car was burning, that there might be someone still inside. I said to them ‘Help me put it out, at least!’ They just stood there.”