Russia Archives

For those who want to understand this crisis

John Y Jones / March 9, 2023

Sn overview of the balance of power, progression of the war, the propaganda threat, the Russians’ intentions and Western reactions, the Nazi accusations and lies campaigns.

Afghanistan, Boris Johnson, Bush, conflict, Democracy, Donbas, EU, Iraq, Kyiv, Libya, Liz, Luhansk, Maidan, Mariupol, media, moscow, NATO, nuclear weapons, Poland, propaganda, Putin, racism, RAND, Romania, Russia, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, the, trump, Ukraine War, UN, United States, Warsaw Pact, Zelensky

The Investigator, a film by Viktor Portel

Can justice be brought?

Nick Holdsworth / January 21, 2023

CONFLICT: A film set in the present, about the past, that points to the future…

Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival, Belgrade, conflict, Filmdelights e.U., FIPADOC, Frame Films, human rights, Interpol, Restart, Russia, Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, The Investigator, The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine, UN, Viktor Portel, Vladimír Dzuro, Vukovar, war crimes, ZagrebDox

Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace

Why do we resort to bombs and guns?

Ranveig Eckhoff / January 20, 2023

CONFLICT: Christopher Blattman’s long-term project explores the reasons why conflict between groups and nations erupts into war.

civil war, conflict, fanaticism, Germany, identity, ideology, Iraq War, Iraq. For, Liberia, NATO, Putin, Russia, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, war

After the fall. The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We’ve Made

AUTHORITARIANISM: What happened after the height of freedom ideals, the fall of the Iron Curtain and Bill Clinton’s fusion of liberal politics with market forces? Today, the Chinese’s mastery of original Western technology and surveillance seems limitless.

authoritarianism, capitalism, China, Cold War, communist, control, corruption, Dalai Lama, Democracy, donald trump, EU, Free will, Hungary, identity, inequality, internet and, Iron Curtain, it went off the rails. Profit-driven media algorithms treated uncontrolled political influence as free speech beyond the reach of governance. Phenomena like, Joe Biden, NATO, North, obama, Police Cloud, Putin, racism, Russia, Shanghai, the system itself seized power. According to Rhodes, TikTok, UN, United States, Viktor Orbán, were expected to democratise knowledge and open channels between people in all corners of the world. However, Xi Jinping

NATO – an alliance for the 21st century?

Marianne Solberg / December 7, 2022

MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: NATO’s new strategy document is a continuation of the neoconservative line after Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s politicization of the group, revealing an ideological chasm between the old and the new NATO.

Belgrade, Democracy, EU, Europe, fascism, France, freedom, Great Britain, human rights, MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, Nazism, peace, Roman Empire, Russia, security, Soviet Union, USA

Freedom, limited

Melita Zajc / November 23, 2022

RUSSIA: The authoritarian stranglehold of the Kremlin closes in across national holidays in contemporary Russia.

Antoine Cattin, capitalism, Charlie Chaplin, COVID, CPH:DOX, Elena Hill, Holidays, Jesus, Nazi, Porto/Post/Doc, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Sergei Loznitsa, sexism, socialism, Swiss Films, violence

Prosecution of filmmakers spreads «like a pandemic»

Sevara Pan / November 22, 2022

IDFA: ICFR addresses a growing political prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers.

Afghanistan, censorship, CIA, Damascus, edward snowden, Gezi Park, Glen Greenwald, ICFR, IDFA, IFFR, incarceration, Iraq, Jafar Panahi, Julian Assange, Laura Poitras, Moataz Abdelwahab, Myanmar, nsa, Orwa Nyrabia, prosecution, Russia, Sara Ishaq, Syria, taliban, Turkey, Ukraine, US, Vanja Kaludjercic

Leaders of the unfree world

Carmen Gray / November 21, 2022

BIOGRAPHY: One of the longest-serving German chancellors ever, Angela Merkel’s eventful tenure as a woman in a bastion of masculinity made her an anchor for Europe.

Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Berlin Wall, biography, Cold War, communist, Condoleezza Rice, CPH:DOX, DDR, donald trump, European Union, Eva Weber, Helmut Kohl, Hillary Clinton, IDFA, Lizzie Gillett, Merkel, Russia, Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær, Sonja Henrici, Soviet Union, Tony Blair, vladimir putin, ZagrebDox

The Children of Leningradsky Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski

Capitalism: A global system

Miquel Sanchez / November 15, 2022

CAPITALISM: A look back at the homeless children of post-Soviet Russia.

alcohol, Andrzej Celinski, capitalism, China, climate change, communism, drugs, Economy, Ethiopia, Europe, globalisation, Hanna Polak, human rights, IMF, Japan, Joseph Stiglitz, Kenya, Malawi, Mikhail Gorbachev, moscow, North Korea, Russia, Sara Bernstein, social justice, socialism, Soviet Union, The Children of Leningradsky, United States, USSR

Journalist At War Morten Offerdal, Vegard Lund Bergheim

In the zone

Steve Rickinson / November 13, 2022

JOURNALISM: How do the stories we hear and see come from the conflict zone to our pages and screens? Through the fall of IS, Journalist at War seeks to find out.

Belgium, civil war, Daesh, Denmark, Global South, Iraq, journalism, Journalist At War, Mexico, Middle East, Morten Offerdal, Russia, Syria, taliban, Trude Refsahl, Ukraine, UNESCO, Vegard Lund Bergheim, yemen

The revolution inside

Carmen Gray / October 20, 2022

BELARUS: A dreamy figure takes us through the protesting crowds of 2020 Belarus as dreams turn to nightmares.

Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus, BELDOCS, Covid-19, human rights, Ksenia Gorenstein, Louis Beaudemont, Mara, revolution, Russia, Sasha Kulak, Slavic, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, trauma, Ukraine

Knocking on heaven’s door

Nick Holdsworth / October 17, 2022

RUSSIA: Gorbachev’s twilight years captured by now exiled Russian director

Baltiske Filmdager, Communist Party, Crimea, Democracy, dictatorship, Filip Remunda, freedom, Gorbachev. Heaven, History, Kyiv, lenin, Mansky, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, moscow, Natalia Manskaya, nuclear weapons, onanism, Pavel Palazhchenko, Reykjavik Summit, ronald reagan, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Vit Klusák, Vitaly Mansky, vladimir putin