Russia

Russia: Alexei Navalny’s death arouses anger

Just days after news from Russia of the imprisonment of Boris Kagarlitsky (https://www.socialistworld.net/2024/02/16/veteran-socialist-academic-condemned-to-five-years-in-russian-prison/) comes the report of the death in custody of Russia’s most famous political prisoner – 47-year-old Alexei Navalny, reportedly after taking exercise […]

Russia

A new phase in the Ukraine war

The desperate, dramatic turn by Russian president Putin – writes Tony Saunois (CWI) – announcing the mobilisation of 300,000 military reserves, coupled with his renewed threat to use nuclear weapons, indicates the seriousness of what […]