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About Sian Glaessner

Sian Glaessner is a Russianist with an interest in Central Asia. She works for BBC Radio Current Affairs.

Articles by Sian Glaessner

Monday 21st January

First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics

Sian Glaessner, 21 January 2008

While British liberals fret about the dismal state of democracy in Russia, and letterwriters take up their pens to protest the fate of many a new “dissident”, most Russians are more interested in their newfound freedom to renovate and redesign their flats or take foreign holidays than any liberty the ballot box can deliver.

Monday 8th May

Turkmenistan's hidden travails

Sian Glaessner, 8 May 2006
A system of political secrecy in central Asia's most rigid dictatorship conceals an economy where injustice, exploitation and corruption rules, reports Sian Glaessner.
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