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Mary Dejevsky

Mary Dejevsky is a columnist and chief editorial writer for the Independent.

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How to help Russia’s democrats?

The west's embrace can stifle. Russian democrats should turn back, look inwards and think forward, says Mary Dejevsky.

After Putin...

The departure of a president who put Russia back on the world map will be a crucial test of the country's constitutional and democratic processes, says Mary Dejevsky.

Russia: what demographic crisis?

A Soviet-era perspective suggests to Mary Dejevsky that Russia’s current population trends offer grounds for optimism.

The new class society

What have airport queues to do with democracy and citizenship? Everything, says Mary Dejevsky.

Russia's NGO law: the wrong target

The fury of western human-rights groups over Russia’s law regulating NGOs is hypocritical, says Mary Dejevsky.