Rock music was originated in the Soviet Union in the 1960s under the influence of Western rock music and bard songs and developed by both amateur bands and official VIA.
The Eurasian Youth Union is a Russian traditionalist political organization, the youth wing of the Eurasia Party headed by Aleksandr Dugin. The organization has branches in several countries. In 2011, the Government of Ukraine has branded the ESM as an extremist anti-Ukrainian organization, convicted of a string of vandalism offenses and banned it in Ukraine.
The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov, formerly The Other Russia, is an unregistered National Bolshevik political party in Russia, founded on 10 July 2010 by Eduard Limonov. The Other Russia was reorganized in September 2020 and changed its name to "The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov", in honor of their deceased founder who had died the same year. As a Russian political party adopting syncretic politics, it has been variously called far-left and far-right by the likes of Malaysia's The Sun, France's Le Point, and BFM TV, Belgian's RTBF, and Eurasia Daily Monitor and the Czech Republic's Expactz.cz, respectively.
The 2017–2018 Russian protests were a long series of countrywide street protest actions and demonstrations in the Russian Federation, which were primarily concerned with suppressing corruption in the Russian government and abandoning the planned increase of retirement age.
Screenlife or computer screen film is a form of visual storytelling in which events are shown entirely on a computer, tablet or smartphone screen. It became popular in the 2010s owing to the growing impact of the Internet and mobile devices.
Ekaterina Mikhailovna Schulmann is a Russian political scientist specializing in legislative processes. Schulmann is an associate professor of the RANEPA, an associate professor of the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences, and an associate fellow of Chatham House.
The Russian Liberation Movement «SERB», formerly known as South East Radical Block is a Radical Russian nationalist political group operating in Russia and Ukraine.
Alexey Andreevich Minyaylo is a Russian social entrepreneur and political activist. During the 2019 Moscow City Duma election he was a member of election team of Lyubov Sobol. Together with her, he went on a hunger strike in protest against non-admission to the election. On 2 August he was arrested on charges of participating in the "riots" on 27 July 2019. In 2022 Alexey have organized several of anti-war projects.
OVD-Info is an independent Russian human rights media project aimed at combating political persecution. Its main focus is freedom of assembly. OVD-Info is one of Russia’s largest human rights NGOs.
The Termless protest or Bessrochka, — is the name used by the organizers of the telegram channel Union of Protest Groups to designate the format of street actions. For the first time this format was announced in June 2018 by the Union of Protest Groups in its telegram channel.
Maria Konstantinovna Pevchikh is a Russian investigative journalist and anti-corruption activist who has served as the chairwoman of the board of directors of the Anti-Corruption Foundation since March 2023. Pevchikh is known for exposing high-level corruption in Russia.
The Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) is an independent investigative organisation originating from Russia that conducts open-source investigation of events taking place during armed conflicts, in particular, the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine, Syria, Libya and Central African Republic. Together with Bellingcat and InformNapalm, it is one of the largest such groups that emerged during the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Marina Vladimirovna Ovsyannikova is a Russian journalist who was employed on the Channel One Russia television channel. She worked for Russia's main evening newscast Vremya on Channel One since the beginning of the 2000s, later describing her role as "producing Kremlin propaganda".
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting Russian occupation of multiple Ukrainian towns and cities, numerous cases of non-violent resistance against the invasion took place. Local residents organised protests against the invasion and blocked the movement of Russian military equipment. The Russian military dispersed the protests, sometimes with live fire, injuring many and killing some. Most of the large protests ended in March.
Separatism in Russia refers to bids for secession or autonomy for certain federal subjects or areas of the Russian Federation. Historically there have been many attempts to break away from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union but modern separatism took shape in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the annexation of Crimea. Separatism in modern Russia was at its biggest in the 1990s and early 2000s. The topic became relevant again after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The primary causes of separatism are nationalism in the republics, economic dependency, and geographic isolation.
The National Republican Army is an alleged underground partisan group of Russians inside Russia working towards the violent overthrow of the Putin government. The group claims to be a member of the Irpin Declaration, an alleged alliance of anti-government Russian militant groups.
The Irpin Declaration is an alleged political union between the Freedom of Russia Legion, the National Republican Army and the Russian Volunteer Corps formed on 31 August 2022. The existence of the National Republican Army has never been confirmed, and the Russian Volunteer Corps denies ever signing the declaration.
Mikhail Sergeevich Zvinchuk is a Russian milblogger and author of the Russian Telegram channel Rybar, which has over 1.1 million subscribers. Until 2019, he worked in the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Each Zvinchuk report is read by an average of 600,000 people.
Andrei Borisovich Loshak is a Russian journalist and reporter.
The "Noon Against Putin" is a peaceful protest action in which Russian citizens who do not support Vladimir Putin will come en masse to the polling stations on the last day of the presidential elections on 17 March at 12 o'clock day and vote against Putin or spoil the ballot. The call for this action was the last political statement of Alexei Navalny before his death in custody, and Novaya Gazeta called the action "Navalny's political testament".
