Public domain Russian prosecutors alleged in court that Alyona Agafonova, a tourist from the mid-Volga region city of Samara, “offended a symbol of the resilience of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War” – the enormous statue that dominates the Volgograd’s memorial to the World War II Battle of Stalingrad. A court in the...
Insta-Nazis: How claims of ‘rehabilitating Nazism’ are molding a militaristic society in Putin’s Russia
By RFE/RL’s Caucasus.Realities and Robert Coalson / RFE/RL8 Mins Read