To the Marxist it is indisputable that a revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, it is not every revolutionary situation that leads to revolution. What, generally speaking, are the symptoms of a revolutionary situation? We shall certainly not be mistaken if we indicate the following three major symptoms…

There will be no mobilization in Chechnya — Kadyrov Mobilizing a country for war is not precisely an easy thing to do. It requires documents to generate lists. These are still paper documents in Russia at the local commissariat level. Why the resistance has been targeting them for months? It…

Third update: In 38 cities of Russia, 1,312 people were detained at protests against mobilization and war, OVD-Info reports At least 51% of all detainees today are women https://t.me/ru_FTP/30754 Second update: We are at over 900 arrests, and the first possible death, in Moscow. https://twitter.com/marqs__/status/1572660722747998210?s=21&t=Kl3SlxjC73PR26F50n4f0A Update: “State actions against mobilization…

The speech was finally delivered, ending the rumors on social media that Vladimir Putin was otherwise indisposed. The speech had no surprises since Putin has been under pressure for months to pull the mobilization trigger. What he did was order a partial mobilization. From the…

Since 20:00 Moscow time, millions of Russians have been waiting for the president’s address. And if you believe opinion polls (let’s believe them this time), then most of them are loyal citizens, and some are even for a special operation. And so they clung to the screens and have been…

We know that there is tension among Russian troops. We also know they come from different places in society. It’s not just the army, or the National Guard (Rosgvardya), or the Private Military Contractors, chief among them Wagner. The tension is also within the army, the regional battalions, chief among…

“Today the world has to see what the Russian army has left behind. More than 400 graves in the forest near Izyum. We still don’t know exactly how many bodies are there… Russia has already become the biggest source of terrorism in the world. No other terrorist force leaves behind…

Over the last ten years, we have been under attack. It’s at the information level. Right now, since we are all paying attention to Russia, we can see it. To be fair, Russians are also falling for it. One of those perennial stories is that Vladimir Putin is going to…

Over the last six months, people have asked why there are no demonstrations against the war. Surely some people are against the war, right? There are, but this is far more about an ancient dynamic in the Russian psyche. This is the Tzar-Boyar dynamic, where Russians are lazy and need…