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The Russian Left Is Standing Against Putin’s War on Ukraine
The mass media, both inside Russia and beyond its borders, hasn’t much noticed — but young Russian leftists have been at the forefront of opposing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Nikolay V. Kononov is editor-in-chief of Teplitsa Journal, a fellow of the Berlin Senate in 2022, and a member of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. His books include God Without a Machine, Durov’s Code, The Uprising, and The Night We Fled.
The mass media, both inside Russia and beyond its borders, hasn’t much noticed — but young Russian leftists have been at the forefront of opposing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.