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.
Homunculus Loxodontus is a statue by Dutch artist Margriet van Breevoort. It was made for the Leiden University Medical Center and installed in the spring of 2016. It became popular in post-Soviet countries where it is called Ждун.
Ekaterina Mikhailovna Schulmann is a Russian political scientist specializing in legislative processes. Schulmann has been an associate professor at RANEPA from 2013 to 2022 and an associate professor at the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences from 2021 to 2022. She currently serves as an associate fellow of Chatham House, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, and an associate professor of the Maqsut Narikbayev University in Astana.
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.
Just Imagine Things We Know is a Russian television miniseries about the inner workings of Moscow media industry directed and primary written by Roman Volobuev, that premiered on KinoPoisk streaming service on September 24, 2020. Initially planned as an anthology series, it was renewed for a second season in 2021. Season 2 was written but never produced as a result of director being blacklisted for opposing Russian Invasion of Ukraine and eventually emigrating from Russia.
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.
Roman Olegovich Volobuev is a Russian film and television director, writer, producer, and former film critic. Volobuev is best known for his 8-year tenure as film reviewer at Afisha magazine and for writing and directing TV series The Last Minister and Just Imagine Things We Know.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, anti-war demonstrations and protests broke out across Russia. As well as the demonstrations, a number of petitions and open letters have been penned in opposition to the war, and a number of public figures, both cultural and political, have released statements against the war.
The Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) is an independent investigative organization from Russia that specializes in open-source intelligence and human intelligence. It is known for its investigations into the activities of Russian Armed Forces in conflicts such as those in Ukraine, Syria, Libya, and the Central African Republic. Founded in 2014 by Ruslan Leviev, CIT has collaborated with major media outlets and faced significant threats due to its work. The group relocated to Georgia in 2022 to continue its operations after facing legal and physical threats in Russia.
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".
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.
Orc, plural orcs, is a pejorative commonly used by many Ukrainians to refer to a Russian soldier participating in the Russian-Ukrainian War and Russian citizens who support the aggression of Russia against Ukraine. The pejorative serves to symbolize inhuman wickedness and brutality of the invaders. It comes from the name of orc, the fictional humanoid monsters from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.
Andrei Borisovich Loshak is a Russian journalist and reporter.
Free Ingria is a Saint-Petersburg based informal social movement of regionalists and separatists, also called political Ingrians or practicing local historians”.
"Noon Against Putin" was a peaceful protest on 17 March of the 2024 Russian presidential election, where voters who do not support Vladimir Putin came en masse to polling stations at noon and vote against Putin or spoil the ballot. The protest has been described by the Novaya Gazeta as "Navalny's political testament" as it was the last political statement by prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny prior to his death.
The phygital sports are a sport that combines two formats of competition: digital and physical, with the main objective being to score the highest number of points in the two formats. Phygital sport includes both individual and team competitions.
