https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/repression/Recent content in Repression on MoscowMigrantHugoenFri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-fsb-a-mafia-state-within-the-state/Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-fsb-a-mafia-state-within-the-state/The usual picture has the FSB as Vladimir Putin's obedient sword and shield. The truth is the reverse: it is a mafia the size of a country, an independent power centre that nearly perished in the early 1990s, survived the reformers' failure to finish it off, and rebuilt itself by embedding into every firm, city, ministry and foreign capital — and that, if it ever decided he was a liability, could remove Putin himself.https://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.