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From Medieval Raid to State Terror: The Hrabivske Abductions and the Neo-Imperial Logic of Russia’s Carceral State
The tragic events that unfolded between December 18 and 20, 2025, in the border village…
‘August’: When a Remake Becomes a Manifesto of Normalisation of Armed Aggression, Imperialism, and Genocide
The new Russian film "August" is not merely a failed remake of the classic "In…
Dmytro Yagunov, Rita Haverkamp: Human Trafficking and Satellite Crimes in Wartime Ukraine
More than 6.2 million refugees from Ukraine moved to Europe and other states after the…
Dmytro Yagunov: Naturalising Empire: The Birch Tree as Instrument of Colonisation in Russian Imperialist Politics
Ukrainians’ attitude towards birch trees – not as trees, but as imperial symbols – is…
Dmytro Yagunov: The Berlin Declaration and the Paradox of the ‘Russian Democratic Neo-Empire’
1. Introduction: Identity Crisis and the Search for the ‘Beautiful Russia of the Future’ The…
Torture as an Administrative Procedurein Russian New-Empire
Violence in the ‘Russian World’ megaproject is not an aberration or a breakdown of discipline;…
Georgy Burkov: ‘Kill me, but Stalinism is a disease…’
In 1990, Russian actor Georgy Burkov (31 May 1933 – 19 July 1990) passed away.…
Dmytro Yagunov: The Imperial Digital Panopticon: When ‘Big Brother’ Goes from Metaphor to Reality
An experiment has been launched in Moscow to exercise total control over migration flows, going…
Dmytro Yagunov: ‘Russian Spirit’ as the Cultural Engine of Imperial Expansion
In the allegorical Soviet fantasy film “City Zero” by Karen Shakhnazarov (1988), a Soviet prosecutor…
Training for Trainers on Human Rights Protection in Places of Detention
On 4-5 December 2025 The Centre for European Constitutional Law (CECL), in partnership with the…