09.09.2024
We express our deep concern regarding the documentary film "Russians at War" by Canadian director of Russian origins Anastasia Trofimova, which premiered at the Venice Biennale and is scheduled to be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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18.07.2024
EXCLUSIVE: The anti-Putin activist told the Express that there was growing Western support for regime change in Russia
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17.07.2024
The U.S. and other allies recently stepped up with new and unprecedented commitments to fortify Ukraine’s military defenses at a crucial point in its battle to defend against Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion
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11.07.2024
MEDITATION magazine prepared a special issue for the NATO Summit and it is now lying in many supermarkets in Washington, D.C. (Whole Foods) and elsewhere. It is an honor to be on the same pages as the Dalai Lama, but even more important to convey the simple message that the only way to peace is to get rid of Putin and Putinism. Thank you for this opportunity!
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07.07.2024
The series of changes of national governments around the world to those with more moderate positions on the Russian-Ukrainian war (already occurred in Slovakia and the UK, in process in France, quite probable in the near future in the USA, Lithuania and the Czech Republic) raises the question: what should be the optimal strategy of Ukraine and the Rammstein coalition supporting it with regard to the scenarios of how to end the hostilities?
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01.07.2024
WARSAW, July 1, 2024 – From June 22-25, 2024, Warsaw hosted the sixth session of the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia, a shadow parliament formed by former Russian deputies who oppose Putin and which serves as the political wing of the Russian resistance movement against Putin’s regime. The Congress currently includes 108 deputies from 36 regions of Russia, representing all political parties that have ever been elected to the State Duma. Sixty-five deputies actively participated in this session
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30.06.2024
Tom Ball (news reporter): A shadow parliament of former Russian MPs argues that regime change will be achieved only by force
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26.06.2024
Under this title, the popular British tabloid "Daily Express" published an article by reporter JOHN VARGA, based on an interview given to the publication by the Chairman of the Congress of People's Deputies, Ilya Ponomarev
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18.06.2024
The Peace Summit in Switzerland brought a number of strategic long-term issues to the public agenda. The most important of them, of course, is how to get Putin to end the war. It is paradoxical that the summit, which was organized specifically to discuss this very topic in the widest possible circle of world leaders and international organizations, in the sake of maximizing turnout, ended up omitting this very issue and postponing it for later.
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14.06.2024
Under this headline, on June 11, The Washington Times published an article by Russian politician and businessman Yevgeny Savostyanov calling on the leaders of the free world to recognize the anti-Putin resistance movement as legitimate representatives of the Russian people, as was once done with the French anti-fascist resistance of General Charles de Gaulle
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05.06.2024
KIEV, JUNE 3, 2024. The sixth plenary session of the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia will be held in Warsaw on June 22-25, 2024.
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03.06.2024
Under this title, Ukrayinska Pravda has published an article by Ilya Ponomaryov, Chairman of the Congress of People's Deputies, devoted to the role and tasks of Russian resistance to the current regime both at this stage and in the near future. The article is addressed primarily to a Ukrainian audience. Below is the full text of the article in English
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09.05.2024
“A note on the forums” by Ilya Ponomarev, Chairman of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Republic, Coordinator of the Political Center of the Legion “Freedom of Russia” and the National Republican Army on American political analysts' reflections on Russia's war against Ukraine, its causes, possible endings and consequences
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09.05.2024
Spoke on the May 7th at a "Libertarian Davos" - 27th annual Milken Institute Global Conference in LA on the Russian Resistance and the way out of the war in Ukraine, at the panel with Bill Browder, Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas, Dmitri Alperovitch and Liev Schreiber, under skillfull moderation of Gideon Rose of CFR
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20.04.2024
Speaking at the expert discussion "How Ukraine can resist Moscow's new antics", where the question of why Russia is trying to accuse Ukraine of involvement in organizing the terrorist attack in Crocus City was discussed, Ilya Ponomaryov, Chairman of the Congress of People's Deputies, expressed the opinion that this is a traditional propaganda technique of the Kremlin, which was used back in the early 2000s to discredit the Chechen national resistance
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09.04.2024
According to sociological survey conducted by the Research Center "Image-Control" from March 23 to 25, 2024 in Kiev, Lviv, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Odessa, about 60% of respondents believe that the armed Russian anti-Putin opposition (currently the RDK, the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Siberian Battalion) can remove the Putin regime from power and form a Russian government friendly to Ukraine, if they receive substantial assistance and their ranks increase significantly
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26.03.2024
The Russian Government failed to prevent or suppress the bloody terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. But another crime of the regime is already in evidence: a repressive campaign of intimidation is unfolding in hindsight. Cruel torture of suspects with public demonstration of torture has become an unprecedented element of Putin's blood-based PR campaign
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23.03.2024
On March 23, 2024, during the work of the 5th plenary session of the Congress of People's Deputies, based on the changes made to the regulations of the Congress, Ilya Ponomarev, a member of the Executive Board of the Congress, was elected to the position of Chairman of the Congress
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23.03.2024
Moscow 1999.
Blown up houses. The capital is in panic. Strongmen and fear - on the streets of Russian cities. The beginning of the second Chechen war. The beginning of Putin's first term
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22.03.2024
During the remote switch-on, Maximilian Andronikov, a member of the Executive Council of the Congress of People's Deputies, a fighter of the Freedom of Russia Legion, with the call sign "Caesar", sent greetings to the participants of the Congress from the Russian liberation forces
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