Is Putin is preparing a second partial mobilisation? Drawing on opposition media sources, particularly Verstka and Meduza, Yurii Colombo traces the convergent signals — his terminological shift from “special military operation” to “war,” the distribution of call-up documentation across multiple regions, and preparatory work inside state enterprises. The costs are substantial: logistical expense, per-soldier benefit obligations, the acknowledged incapacity to train new recruits effectively (…)

Andy Durgan revient sur la révolution de juillet 1936 à la lumière de son étude récente sur le Parti ouvrier d'unification marxiste (POUM). Il conteste l'interprétation dominante présentant la guerre civile comme une simple lutte entre démocratie et fascisme : la polarisation sociale de la Seconde République rendait inévitables à la fois le conflit armé et la révolution. Durgan analyse le dilemme des anarchistes, la montée du stalinisme, l'échec des stratégies frontpopulistes et la question (…)

Between 2018 and 2020, residents of the remote Arkhangelsk region organised one of the largest environmental protests in contemporary Russia, halting construction of a federal mega-landfill planned to receive millions of tonnes of Moscow's waste annually. Perrine Poupin's ethnographic study, based on fieldwork at the Shies occupation site and surrounding blockades, shows how locally rooted ecological attachments and horizontal self-organisation enabled a weakly institutionalised movement to (…)