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}Why is Russia resisting international help with its spiralling drugs problem, asks Susan Richards? While the Kremlin's rhetoric reveals a profound insecurity, its policies are failing to deal effectively with the situation
Ukraine has proved exceptionally vulnerable to the economic crisis, says Grigory Gritsenko. Dependent on its exports, it is hampered both by its dependence on its Russian neighbour for gas and the poverty of its internal market
After the recent Russian local elections were won by the Kremlin-backed ruling party, United Russia, opposition parties cried foul. A review of blogs and online comments from the Russian southern city of Astrakhan shows quite how bad things got.
Gazprom's controversial decision to build a skyscraper in St Petersburg had the support of Putin and governor Valentina Matvienko. But a recent broadside on TV suggests that broader forces of political opposition may be gathering behind this ostensibly cultural decision, comments Dmitry Travin
As the human rights organisation Memorial wins Europe's Sakharov Prize, we celebrate with this essay by one of its founders
Anatoly Yar-Kravchenko: Maxim Gorki reads his fairy tale "A girl and death" to Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov on 11.11.1931 (painted in 1949)
Socialist realism, the old Soviet literary canon, has come to dominate the literary scene once more, laments the distinguished literary critic, Olga Martynova
Moscow, famously, has a traffic problem. But apart from moving the capital, there isn't really an answer, points out Mumin Shakirov
While wooing the West with talk of democracy, President Saakashvili has ruthlessly pursued his goal of controlling the media, especially television, says Robin Llewellyn
The rhetoric of the new Moldovan government is not music to the Kremlin's ears. However the powers that be in Chishinau have no choice. Immediately after the present summit of the Community of Independent States, the government has to move ahead with the hard work of serious reform of the economy, judiciary, media and bureaucracy.
A Russian poet’s eye on returning to Londongrad, where imperial decline is woven into everyday life
Alexander Podrabinek, a former Soviet dissident, provoked a furore when he criticised pro-USSR revisionism on his blog
In 2010, Kazakhstan takes over the chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Increasingly strident attempts to muzzle independent voices in the Kazakh media suggests how the government is preparing itself, says Irada Huseinova
Russia has good reasons to respond positively to Obama's move away from missile defence. But realpolitik suggests they will not
prevail
Europe's last dictator recently visited an EU country for the first time in a decade. Europe requires more democracy and economic liberalisation, but only Russia can offer his regime any hope of survival
Russian Orthodox Solovetsky Monastery complex, founded in the second quarter of the 15th century
Russia's Orthodox Church has finally won its battle to make religious education compulsory in schools, says Russian Orthodox Church official Viktor Malukhin. But the secularists have won concessions too
Three former Western ambassadors to countries in the post-Soviet space applaud President Medvedev’s call for sweeping reform and suggest key paths to modernisation
After dropping the missile defence system in Eastern Europe, remaining American weapons in Europe should come next
"History is politics in all countries." Nowhere more than between Moscow and Warsaw
Moldova's long-ruling communists, having recently been dethroned by the four-party Alliance for European Integration (AEI), are struggling to win back lost ground. The frantic activities of communist ex-President Voronin suggest he is not finding democracy easy
An exchange between renowned novelist and jailed ex-oligarch opens a buried history
A Kremlin media surprise suggests an intriguing parallel - with a twist
A social rehabilitation centre in Moscow for young disabled people has been threatened with eviction because the local authority needs the premises
The middle classes the world over have spent 20 years swapping their freedoms for security and prosperity. While Putin delivered this neo-Hobbesian bargain in Russia, its ur-model is Singapore
Responding to oD Russia's recent article by Denis Corboy et al the distinguished Russian commentator Sergei Markedonov disagrees profoundly. Better to pay attention to the threat political Islam poses to our common values and come up with a joint strategy
Andrew Wilson reports zero tolerance for more shock therapy
A great champion of human rights remembered.
The West must beware looming crises in North Caucasus, Georgia and Ukraine
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