In Moscow's Shadows 132: A View from the Provinces

Barring particularly high-profile developments, we tend to look at Russia through the prism of Moscow (and maybe St Petersburg). How good a picture does this give us? To try and redress the balance, I use a recent Association D'Est report on 'Grassroots Propaganda and Repression in Russia's Komi Republic' to consider some of the wider lessons about protest and resistance in the provinces...The D'Est webage is here, and you can learn more about the Bear Market brief here (substack) and here (p...