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Igor Strelkov raged against the president after the Wagner mutiny, and could now face years in jail.

Drawing in part on his own experiences in Ukraine, Carl Mirra criticizes the factual background and interpretations in Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies' "The War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict."

The ever-more draconian prison sentences handed down to prominent representatives of the NATO-backed opposition in the Russian state and oligarchy are indicative of intense conflicts and crises behind the walls of the Kremlin.

In opposing the arrest of Kagarlitsky and calling for his release, the YGBL and WSWS do not extend any support to his reactionary politics and we reject his designation as a “left-wing” critic of the Putin regime and the war in Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin is working to silence his most vocal pro-war nationalist critics on the eve of this fall’s regional elections and the 2024 presidential election in which he is expected to seek six more years in power.  Following the Wagner mutiny, which posed the biggest threat yet to Putin’s 23-year rule, the Kremlin now seeks to deploy the same tactics it used to crush Russia’s liberal opposition against prominent far-right “patriots” to mitigate its political risks, three Russian officials told The Moscow Times on condition of anonymity.  “Roughly speaking, our main e...