Aggressor Russland: Was macht die russische Zivilgesellschaft?

The event will be held in German and Russian. Translated simultaneously into German and Russian. Headphones are available for a deposit (ID document: driver’s license/ID card or similar).

In Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, Putin and the leadership in the Kremlin can rely on a large part of Russian society. In order to understand this phenomenon, we need to take a closer look at what is happening in the society of the perpetrator country: We need to understand how the state and society function in Russia in order to be armed against propaganda.

This is why CORRECTIV, together with representatives of Memorial and Radio Sakharov, is talking to specialists in Russian history and representatives of civil society who had to flee Russia ten years after the beginning of the war and two years after the start of the major invasion about the conditions in Putin’s empire and whether and how resistance is still possible in Russia.

The aim is not to lose sight of the past and present: The participants will talk about the causes of the Chechen wars and their consequences for Russian society, Putin’s authoritarian rule and possible prospects for change.

They will be joined by Aleksandr Cherkasov from the human rights organization Memorial, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, Sergey Lukashevskiy, editor-in-chief of Radio Sakharov, who has just been awarded the Tonhalle Düsseldorf Human Rights Prize, Marieluise Beck from the Zentrum Liberale Moderne, Prof. Anke Hilbrenner from the University of Düsseldorf, who works on Russian violence and recent colonial history, Prof. Nikolai Plotnikov, who researches Russian resistance, and Gesine Dornblüth, Eastern European journalist, former Moscow correspondent for Deutschlandfunk and author („Beyond Putin. Russia’s Toxic Society“ with Thomas Franke).

Panel with: Aleksandr Cherkasov (Memorial), Prof. Anke Hilbrenner (University of Düsseldorf), Gesine Dornblüth (journalist, author), Marieluise Beck (LibMod), Nikolai Plotnikov (Ruhr University), Sergey Lukashevskiy (Radio Sakharov)

Moderation: David Schraven (CORRECTIV)

An event by Memorial, Radio Skharov and CORRECTIV with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.