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Russia/Belarus: A week-end of mass protests
New spring of protest opens up, as 1,000s arrested. Two neighbouring countries, Belarus and Russia, have seen significant mass protests over last weekend.
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Russia: Duma legislates to decriminalise domestic violence
For unified struggle for women’s rights and against capitalism. Socialist alternative, the Russian section of the CWI, took part in an “individual picket” outside the State Duma (Parliament) on 17th January to protest against the first […]
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Russia: Twenty five years since the coup against Gorbachev
Decades of ‘shock therapy capitalism’, wars and corruption
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Russia: Twenty fifth anniversary of attempted coup
Attempted Stalinist counter-revolution speeds up capitalist counter-revolution
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Russia: Kremlin enters the Syrian quagmire
Economic crisis deepens in Russia as Ukraine military stand-off continues
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Russia: 50,000 march in Moscow after shooting of Boris Nemtsov
As economic crisis deepens, social explosions loom
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Russia’s 1917 socialist revolution
November 7th anniversary of workers taking power
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Sochi Winter Olympics: Breaking all records!
Sporting excellence, yes…but also corruption, waste, atrocious workers’ conditions and anti-LGBT laws
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Video: Paul Murphy MEP on Sochi Olympic Games
"The winter Olympic Games in Sochi will be remembered as being built on homophobia, on discrimination and on exploitation"
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Russia: Day of Action on 16 November in support of healthcare workers
But union leaders launch attack on CWI activist