Resistance is NOT Futile: Civil Resistance in Eastern Europe Between War and Autocratization
In an era defined by full-scale military invasion and the aggressive dismantling of democratic institutions, the capacity to challenge systems of violence is being tested to its limits. Across Eastern Europe, this struggle for agency is a matter of immediate survival: it persists in Belarus despite the state-led "cleansing" of civil society and in Russia, where criminalized anti-war dissent has moved underground. Meanwhile, Ukrainian civil society continues to anchor national defense while leading anti-corruption protests to demand internal accountability despite the constraints of martial law.





























