Letters

Vasily actively writes letters from jail, talking about his case, mood, global news, and everyday routine. You can write to support him—he's always happy to chat with anyone! Find out more on the How to Help page.

Aug 20, 2025

“And today we’ll talk very briefly about Southeast Asia. Another conflict, this time between Thailand and Cambodia, is interesting because both parties involved are monarchies...

Aug 15, 2025

“Somewhat unexpectedly for myself, I celebrated my thirtieth birthday on August 2...

Aug 15, 2025

Third Birthday in SIZO

Aug 13, 2025

“During daily walks in the prison yard, you think well about everything, including nonsense...

Aug 8, 2025

“A little about library books in the pre-trial detention center. On the evening of July 9, I returned to my cell after the court hearing and immediately saw three books on my bunk - which means the library had arrived...

Aug 4, 2025

“A side effect of the Iran-Israeli conflict was that information appeared in the media about the filming of a series taking place in Iran based on the novel by the Strugatsky brothers “Hard to Be God.” At least I learned about this precisely in connection with reports about the evacuation of the film crew from Iran...

Jul 25, 2025

“Yes, I underestimated the degree of unpredictability of bureaucratic destinies under authoritarianism...

Jul 17, 2025

"Supreme Court liquidated political party “Civil Initiative” (CI). This event is not particularly important, since the GI was already practically non-functional, but in a sense it is symbolic...

Jul 7, 2025

“On June 9, the mayor of Krasnoyarsk V. Loginov was detained on suspicion of corruption...

Jul 4, 2025

“During radio coverage of the Iran-Israeli conflict, one of the commentators said in passing that there appears to be no synchronization between the air defense systems controlled by the Iranian army and those controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and they are controlled separately, which, of course, reduces their overall effectiveness...

Jul 1, 2025

“Five years of zeroing. There is little point in once again assessing in detail the constitutional changes that took place five years ago and trying to separate important amendments from decorative ones...

Jun 26, 2025

“I saw the news that Trump called one of his bills “Big beautiful bill,” that is, “a big beautiful bill.” And suddenly it occurred to me that Trump’s public rhetoric is incredibly reminiscent of the language of Ellochka the cannibal from “12 Chairs”: she had a “fat and handsome guy,” while Trump had a “big and beautiful bill.” I think it would be possible, by analogy, to compile a lexicon of approximately thirty words that would cover a significant part of what Trump expresses to the public...