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Who to Trust? With Ilia Klishin: Debunking Myths About Lithuania and a Guide to Emigration
A conversation about myths around Lithuania, migrant adaptation, and the information environment.
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Nabokov's Mashenka: Emigration, Awkwardness, and Cultural Language
An episode of the Tvoya Zakladka podcast about Nabokov, emigration, and cultural optics.
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For Me, Above All, It Is the Inner Joy of Conversation
An interview for 7x7 about a Vilnius book club, reading practice, and community building.
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A New Emigrant Volna: Ilia Klishin on Lithuania, Integration, and Favorite Books
A conversation about relocation, the Volna project, integration in Lithuania, and reading habits.
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Respect for the Host Country Is Not Self-Censorship
An interview on building emigrant media and speaking to new audiences without arrogance or noise.
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Russian Media of the New Diaspora: A Look at Three Projects
An English feature in The Fix on new Russian-language diaspora media, including Volna.
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Putin-Macron talks and the Russia expertise gap
A small factual mistake in coverage of the Putin-Macron meeting exposed a larger expertise gap in foreign commentary on Russia. Minor errors can reveal a shallow analytical frame when they harden into repeated claims.
It connects media analysis with the original text published by The Moscow Times.
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Mass protests: lessons from a decade
Ten years after Bolotnaya, the 2011 protest wave looks like political learning rather than simple defeat. A generation that entered the streets naively left with a clearer understanding of the state, repression, and civic action.
It offers a concise entry point into the debate around civic protests.
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The Kremlin Is Coming for Media One by One — and Society Is Helpless to Stop It
Pressure against independent media often works through accumulation rather than a single ban. Legal risk, economic pressure, isolation, and exhaustion weaken outlets before formal censorship completes the process.
This piece places media freedom in a concrete editorial moment in 2021.
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The Magic Mirror of Russian Public Opinion
After VkusVill published and then deleted its story about two women hoping to marry, both supporters and opponents rushed to speak in the name of “public opinion.”
It connects public opinion with the original text published by The Moscow Times.
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The Dilemma of the Great Terror: How to Report Roman Protasevich's Confession?
Roman Protasevich’s arrest and televised confession in Minsk created a problem of method, not only politics. Journalists had to cover the spectacle without treating coerced speech as ordinary evidence or helping the state turn intimidation into authority.
It offers a concise entry point into the debate around media ethics.
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Let's Wait Until After the Elections
The familiar political refrain “let’s wait until after the elections” works less as caution than as a technology of delay. What sounds prudent often serves to normalize passivity and postpone real choices indefinitely.
It explains electoral timing and links to the original source.