Reflections on Good and Evil in Challenging Times

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Exploring the blurred line between good and evil, this chapter delves into the existence of evil as merely a lack of goodness. It delves into the struggle to maintain faith in goodness during challenging times and emphasizes the resilience of the human spirit in clinging to hope even in darkness.

A year on from our series Next Year in Moscow, Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, is dead. Hope for the “beautiful Russia of the future” he imagined from his prison cell in Siberia is all but extinguished. The Economist’s Russia editor Arkady Ostrovsky finds out how Russians who oppose Vladimir Putin’s war are enduring these dark times

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