Four stories explore the isolation of trade union activists, mobilized soldiers’ wives, a politician, and a teacher prosecuted for his poems. Ivan Zhilin examines how indifference and a lack of support make further tragedies possible.
Four stories explore the isolation of trade union activists, mobilized soldiers’ wives, a politician, and a teacher prosecuted for his poems. Ivan Zhilin examines how indifference and a lack of support make further tragedies possible.
In July 2026, migrants, including citizens of Uzbekistan, were forced to move around in a squat during a raid on a Moscow construction site. This is one of the episodes of degrading treatment that make labor migration a matter of dignity, safety and the state’s responsibility to protect its citizen…
Short appointments, paperwork and staff shortages push doctors in Russia’s public clinics to work faster and longer. Healthcare union co-chair Andrey Konoval explains how work-to-rule action won time standards — and why protected working time still matters.
In July, Working Policy published an article by Kirill Buketov on the fundamental rules of democracy for the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. In it, he presented his own view on the unlearned lessons of the US Declaration of Independence and Constitution in connection with…
There is one wonderful construct in Russian labor law. It is called "borrowed labor." Imagine this: a person works for one company, their management is at another, they are fired by a third, and when they try to figure out who is actually responsible for everything, it turns out that there is no on…
In January 2021, V Krizise published my article about Azat Miftakhov—then a 27-year-old mathematician and graduate student at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University. The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced him to six years in a general-regime penal colony in c…
Michael Hindley reviews Here Where We Live Is Our Country , by Molly Crabapple, published by Bloomsbury, the story of the forgotten and suppressed history of the Jewish, Socialist, Anti-Zionist Party. An estimated eight to ten million Jews worldwide can trace their origins to the long past Polish-…
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