The number of Ukrainian children abducted or forcibly Russified by Russia since 2014 could amount to over 1.5 million—an absolutely monstrous number. This is genocide. Galia Ackerman’s latest editorial for Desk Russie English: https://desk-russie.info/2024/10/13/the-abduction-of-ukrainian-children.html

Philosopher Yulia Sineokaya: “We are Engaged in a Critical Analysis of the Catastrophe” In this interview to Desk Russie English, she talks about the state of science in Russia, odious figures like Alexander Zinoviev and Alexander Dugin, and the role of philosophy in today’s world. https://desk-russie.info/2024/06/05/yulia-sineokaya-we-are-engaged-in-a-critical.html

Anne & Laurent Champs-Massart are travel writers. In 2023, they settled in Kyiv. Here, they recount the ordeal experienced by the inhabitants of Yahidne—a small village—during the Russian occupation. https://desk-russie.info/2024/06/05/return-to-yahidne.html

Desk Russie has published one of Alexander Skobov’s last interviews before his arrest on April 3 on charges of “terrorism”. He is a former Soviet political prisoner and an emblematic figure of Russian intellectual resistance, condemns Russia’s imperialist war and spoke out in favor of destroying the Crimean bridge, the Black Sea fleet, military airfields, etc. He now faces up to seven years in prison. https://desk-russie.info/2024/04/22/alexander-skobov-the-imperial-essence-of-the-russian-state-must-disappear.html

A piece on how Russia persecutes Jehovah’s Witnesses, shamans and witches. “The shaman announced he would walk from Yakutia to Moscow to chase away Putin’s evil spirits. He tried several times, but was arrested. Now he is undergoing ‘treatment’ with neuroleptics in a psychiatric hospital. Is the Kremlin really afraid of him?” https://desk-russie.info/2021/11/12/strategy-of-the-absurd.html

“Three things have ruined my homeland: its size, its national vanity and orthodoxy. Emperors used to bow to the Pope, not the other way round,” Maria Rozanova once said in 2004. Although it seems these words could have been spoken today, twenty years on. A tribute by Galia Ackerman to Maria Vasilievna Rozanova, a publisher, author, art historian, architect, jeweler and fashion designer. She died in December 2023 in Fontenay-aux-Roses (France). https://desk-russie.info/2023/12/19/maria-vassilievna-rozanova/