When I chatted to a pro-democracy campaigner and Kremlin critic he told me he wanted to save his nation from despotism, now he has been given 25 years in a Russian penal colony for condemning the Ukraine war.
IAN BIRRELL: Vladimir Kara-Murza defiantly told the court that he was proud of every word he had spoken and said his only regret was his failure to convince enough people about the dangers of Putin.
We would like to attract your attention to our new BMC Genomics collection, titled "Transposable elements". More information can be found in this blog post written by Guest Editor Gökhan Karakülah and his PhD student Doğa Eskier who discuss the importance of transposable elements (TEs) and shine a spotlight on our current and growing knowledge of TEs.
Today’s Russia has paradoxically fallen into a synthesis of the Soviet and Tsarist empires, as constructed by Putin’s political technologists. This historical revenge is incompatible with the modern global world. In Russia, after defeat in war, an era of reforms has usually followed. Thus, perhaps, a "new Gorbachev" may appear soon.