https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/brain-drain/Recent content in Brain Drain on MoscowMigrantHugoenWed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/russias-self-mutilation-why-repression-defeats-itself/Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/russias-self-mutilation-why-repression-defeats-itself/Repression is not a sign of the regime's strength but a wound it keeps inflicting on itself — it destroys the minds a country needs to live, it breeds its own future avengers, and it intensifies precisely when the war abroad stalls. Across Russian history defeats have brought freedom and victories have brought repression, which is why the apparatus of fear is also the regime's self-administered poison.