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1 week ago | 
internationalviewpoint.org | Ilya Budraitskis
How can we view the issue of Ukraine’s liberation today, within this adverse international environment created by the aggression of Trump and Putin, and with Europe finding itself without a compass? During the three years of this terrible war, which has cost Ukraine enormous sacrifices, the country has been able to defend its independence against the vastly superior army of the imperialist aggressor.
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2 weeks ago | 
internationalviewpoint.org | Ilya Budraitskis |Philipp Schmid
Philipp Schmid: The political development in Europe is extremely concerning. The fascist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) achieved 20.8% in the 2025 federal elections. At demonstrations in Germany, people are saying it’s not 5 minutes to midnight, but 19:33 hours. Is this panic justified? Ilya Budraitskis: Yes, I think these fears are justified. We can observe how the influence of various far-right parties in Europe, in the USA, in Latin America, etc. is constantly increasing.
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3 weeks ago | 
internationalviewpoint.org | Gilbert Achcar |Ilya Budraitskis
Ilya Budraitskis: With the beginning of Trump’s second term, the world is experiencing a tremendous geopolitical shift, and I would like to start discussing it with the question of NATO’s future. Today, it is obvious that the alliance is in a situation of strategic and ideological crisis.
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3 weeks ago | 
links.org.au | Gilbert Achcar |Ilya Budraitskis
With the beginning of Trump's second term, the world is experiencing a tremendous geopolitical shift, and I would like to start discussing it with the question of NATO’s future. Today, it is obvious that the alliance is in a situation of strategic and ideological crisis.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
links.org.au | Ilya Budraitskis
[Editor’s note: The following is an edited transcript of the speech and responses to questions given by Ilya Budraitskis on the “The situation for the left in Russia today” panel at the “ Boris Kagarlitsky and the challenges of the left today” online conference, which was organised by the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign on October 8. Budraitskis is a political and social theorist, previously based in Moscow, who is now a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
internationalviewpoint.org | Ashley Smith |Ilya Budraitskis
— The people of Georgia have risen up in a new mass protest movement against the Government. The roots of it are, in part, a response to the results of the recent election that brought Georgian Dream back into power. What did they run on? What were the opposition parties and what were their platforms? Were people satisfied by those options? Luka: We are in the midst of a mass democratic uprising against the Georgian Dream government.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
links.org.au | Ashley Smith |Ilya Budraitskis |Ia Eradze |Luka Nakhutsrishvili |Lela Rekhviashvili
First jointly published by Posle Media and Tempest. The country of Georgia, a small nation of 3.8 million people in the Caucasus, has been thrown into a profound crisis. Its people have risen up against the ruling party, Georgian Dream, over the passage of its Russa-style “foreign influence law,” homophobic anti-LGBTQ propaganda law, rigging of the recent election, and suspension of accession talks for membership in the EU.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
vientosur.info | Ilya Budraitskis
Podemos calificar el estado actual del mundo de momento fascista. No solo se trata del apoyo creciente que recibe la extrema derecha en Europa y América Latina, del ascenso del autoritarismo chino y de las andanzas del régimen de Putin en la continuación de su guerra criminal en Ucrania.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
links.org.au | Ilya Budraitskis |Hanna Perekhoda |Simon Pirani
What are the global ramifications of Putin’s bloody effort to erase Ukraine’s right to self-determination, and what political and ideological challenges does it pose to those who seeking to solidarize with victims of imperialism and neocolonialism? These and related questions are addressed by socialist activists from Ukraine, Russia, and the United Kingdom in this event sponsored by Haymarket Books and Ukraine Solidarity Network.
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May 2, 2024 | 
links.org.au | Ilya Budraitskis |Kirill Medvedev |Sasha Davydova
On April 5, 2024, the Russian Socialist Movement (RSM) was declared “foreign agent.” This became the first precedent when the Russian authorities de facto banned a left-wing organization: it is quite obvious that Putin’s oppressive, antidemocratic law eliminates any opportunity for political activity under that name. However, if we see the foreign agent status as a kind of recognition by the regime, it is well deserved.
