dissidence

First, publicly airing grievances in this way alleviates some of the cognitive dissidence we experience when the nation we live in and love is doing horrible things in our name.

Unlike their colleagues in the West, whose freedoms allowed them to make clean distinctions between “art” and “activism,” here no easy division was admitted between dissidence and independence, between engagement and refusal.

And in doing so he depicts a Russia that, despite internal dissidence and generational shifts in politics, is bound to repeat this scene again.

“They write to all my paranoia and anti-establishment dissidence and conspiracy theories. So it’s been a lot of fun for me. A dream, really.”

Mr. Maduro and top officials “stand out as the main architects in the design, implementation and maintenance of a machinery at the service of dissidence repression,” the report says.