FROM THE ARCHIVES: Dissident Power - Beating Back Bullies

A lesson in spine stiffening

This report was originally published April 11, 2023, before Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and it contains his beautiful words of defiance. In my mind I keep hearing the words of Tom Stoppard’s ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’:

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said — no. But somehow w…