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Valery Panyushkin

Valery Panyushkin

The Moscow Times

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Moscow Shows Little Faith in the Potential of Russian Children

In 2024, the most recent year I could find data for, only 43% of Russian schoolchildren moved from ninth grade into 10th. For modern Russia, this is a...

23.07.2026 10

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Valery Panyushkin

Russia's Worship of War Comes With its Own Idolatry

For over a century, the authorities in Russia have been trying to create a new faith, an “opium of the people” to keep the country in line. First,...

11.05.2026 50

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Why Won't This Russian Opposition Politician Watch His Language?

17.01.2026 70

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Valery Panyushkin

I Did Nothing to Stop Russia's Decline Into Tyranny. Should I Be Blamed?

06.01.2026 50

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How ‘Masha and the Bear’ Upset This Putinist Activist

31.10.2025 40

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Valery Panyushkin

Meet Russia's Most Harmless Terrorists – The Most Decent People You Could Meet

17.10.2025 30

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Russia Faces Declining Numbers of Schoolchildren. What Did the Kremlin Expect?

08.09.2025 30

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Valery Panyushkin

Russia's Potato Dilemma Risks Causing a Health Crisis

30.05.2025 40

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Valery Panyushkin