Owen Matthews Owen Matthews

The exiled activists who dream of dismantling the Russian empire

(Illustration: John Broadley) 
issue 23 September 2023

There is a dream called the Republic of Ingermanlandia. This republic’s values will be European, its borders will be open and it will prosper like its neighbour Estonia on the back of a booming digital economy. For the moment Ingermanlandia is better known as Russia’s Leningrad Region, and its capital as St Petersburg.

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