Different flags – same motherfuckers
ACTIVISM: A rough but cheerful taxi driver and vlogger becomes an unlikely dissident in Russia’s eastern corner.
Kremlin
Letters to Putin
RUSSIA: On the margins of state control, Ostrov – Lost Island is an evocative portrait of an imperilled Russian community.
Belarus: the never-ending story
CONTROL: The brave and peaceful resistance from an underground theatre before and during the Belarusian presidential election protests.
Russia’s war with its own people
RUSSIA: Two films look into the appeal and threat of Western favorite Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
Russia without Putin
RUSSIA: Putin will leave the Kremlin one day – but don’t expect that to change things, argues Tony Wood in his well-researched thesis on power and continuity in today’s Russia.
From protégée to dictator
RUSSIA: A glimpse into Vladimir Putin‘s rise to power – from his early promises of media freedom to the flagrant disregard of democratic norms.