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Articles by Ildar Dadin
The Kremlin’s Propaganda Network Wants to Debunk Fake News
Since 2005, when the Kremlin launched “Russia Today” to promote Moscow’s perspective on world news, foreign media regulators have been slapping the TV network with violations of rules on impartial reporting, and criticizing it for acting as the Russian government’s mouthpiece. RT's mission to regurgitate Moscow's line has been most palpable in its coverage of the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, where Russian troops have intervened directly.
Welcome Back to the Belarusian Good Old Bad Old Days
In one video, which went viral among Belarusian Internet users, undercover agents from the KGB (the unchanged name of Belarus’ security service) detain and beat protesters inside a public bus. Soon, however, the gloves came off. On March 15, Belarusian Constitution Day, the authorities used force to disperse peaceful protests in Minsk.
A Law Unto Himself
After first coming to St. Petersburg in 2006 to study, American lawyer Thomas Callahan worked in Russian and international human rights groups before landing in a corporate law office. Socially active, he has appeared in Esquire and GQ Russia, and was once named “Bachelor of the Week” on a popular Russian gossip website. I was raised in a comparative backwater, in the state of Vermont. I grew up in a house that was loaded up with Trotskyist and Black Panther literature.
Russia’s “managed thaw”
This week, two political prosecutions in Russia were quashed — to much applause. But it’s too early to talk about positive trends — the authorities are merely changing their tactics. This article was originally published in Russian on RBC. We are grateful for their permission to translate and republish it here. This week, a Russian regional court revoked the five-month prison sentence against a children’s camp instructor and released her from prison.
Inside Russia’s new Gulag
My husband was humiliated, beaten and tortured in a Russian prison. Here are the stories that I’ve collected from his prison. One year ago, Ildar Dadin, a well-known Moscow activist (and my husband), was sent to prison: the court sentenced him to three years for carrying out solitary pickets. After a lengthy imprisonment in a Moscow investigation prison, Ildar was transferred to a prison colony — and disappeared. His family wasn’t told where he’d been sent.
“10-12 people would beat me all at once, kicking me”
Ildar Dadin is an opposition activist who has the distinction of the being the first Russian citizen to officially be imprisoned after being convicted of repeatedly violating legislation on nonviolent protest. The legislation was amended in 2014 to include prison sentences for up to five years for breaching the law three times. The Russian opposition has repeatedly accused Russian police and courts of perverting the law in order to threaten and harass peaceful demonstrators in the country.
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