Putin regime cracks down on Central Asian immigrants

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
Central Asian immigrant workers detained during Russian police raid on construction site in Moscow days after March 22 Islamic State terror attack. Kremlin has stepped up these arrests, deportations, while smearing Ukraine and its fight for sovereignty as responsible for the attack.

In the wake of the March 22 deadly Moscow terror attack by Islamic State Khorasan, a reactionary Islamist outfit, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is targeting Muslim immigrants from Central Asia. The Kremlin is conducting police raids across the country…


Moscow steps up attacks on Ukraine after IS terror attack

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

Four terrorist attackers, acting for an Islamic State group offshoot, sprayed gunfire on concertgoers and lit a massive blaze that brought down the roof in a Moscow entertainment complex hosting a rock concert March 22. In the assault, the deadliest…



Navalny funeral turnout shows opposition to Putin

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

In the largest political protest against the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine since it began over two years ago, thousands gathered for the Moscow funeral of Alexei Navalny March 1. For days after, they…


Thousands turn out to join Navalny funeral, protest Putin, Ukraine war

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

Several thousand people turned out for the funeral of Alexei Navalny, a longstanding political opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin who died in a gulag prison Feb. 16. Participants used the event to express their condemnation of Putin’s regime and…


Navalny killed in Russian prison, opposition grows to Ukraine war

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Memorial at Russian Embassy in Berlin, Feb. 18. Banner by Pussy Riot members denounces Kremlin murderers. Two days earlier, Russian authorities announced that Alexei Navalny, prominent critic of Putin regime, war in Ukraine, died in Russian gulag prison. Inset, Marina Ovsyannikova, who was fired for protesting March 2022 on live Russian TV against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, holds sign at Berlin gathering quoting Navalny, “Don’t give up.”

The Russian government informed Alexei Navalny’s family Feb. 16 that he had died in prison. Navalny, a well-known critic of the government in Moscow, had been incarcerated in one of Russia’s harsh prison colonies in the Arctic Circle. The announcement…


Get Moscow out of all of Ukraine now!

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

Two years ago Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war against Ukraine to crush its independence and subjugate its people. Eight years earlier workers across Ukraine rose up in massive protests for political rights that ousted the pro-Moscow regime of…


Moscow bars candidate opposing Putin, Ukraine war

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

In the largest anti-war manifestation since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine almost two years ago, some 200,000 people waited in lines stretching for city blocks all across the country in January to sign petitions to put Boris Nadezhdin on…



Bashkirs protest jailing of native rights fighter

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024
Protest Jan. 15 in Baymak, Russia, at jailing of Fail Alsynov, fighter for Bashkir rights against Kremlin’s war, conscription of ethnic minorities.

In one of the biggest outbreaks of social unrest since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine nearly two years ago, thousands have protested in Baymak, in the Republic of Bashkortostan. Baymak is over 850 miles east of Moscow near Russia’s…