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Wednesday 25th January

Theo Angelopoulos: "I am standing by you"

The award winning Greek film director, Theo Angelopoulos, died yesterday in an accident whilst working on his new film The Other Sea. He spoke to Jane Gabriel in 2009 about his film 'The Dust of Time', and in 1993 about his films 'The Suspended Step of the Stork' and 'The Travelling Players'
Friday 11th November

How we remember them: the 1914-18 war today

The way the first world war is remembered closes as well as opens doors to the past (archive)
Tuesday 27th September

An African future: beyond the culture of dependency

The experience of poor farmers in Kenya is a lesson in the need for an anti-corruption revolution. (This article is republished in tribute to the pioneering environmentalist Wangari Maathai, who died on 25 September 2011)
Tuesday 5th April

Yemen: travails of unity

The insecurity and violence of an ancient Arab land are creating a political implosion
Monday 7th March

Libya’s regime at 40: a state of kleptocracy

Colonel Gaddafi's domain, now in deep internal crisis, is more protection-racket than modern state
Tuesday 8th February

Preah Vihear: the Thai-Cambodia temple dispute

A fiery border crisis fuses old tensions and modern politics (archive)
Sunday 14th November

Burma's struggle, Aung San Suu Kyi's role

Burma's newly released leader is a beacon of her country's hunger to be free (archive)
Friday 4th June

The felling of bungalows, the building of Dhaka

The frenetic urban growth of Bangladesh's capital forces its inhabitants into new ways of living
Monday 12th April

Poland: the politics of history

A contest over Poland’s communist era renders much of this past invisible 
Monday 18th January

I've turned 25, uh-huh. Wish me luck…

The blog of Anastasia Baburova, budding journalist - murdered in Moscow  
Friday 20th November

Can President Medvedev make the earth move?

President Medvedev’s announcement that he is considering reducing the number of time zones in Russia has evoked a sense of déjà vu in Samara. Previous attempts have all failed and Medvedev would do well to think hard before proceeding, warns Vladimir Zvonovsky
Monday 16th November

Drug addiction: not quite as simple as Russia v the West

Russia’s government, faced with an explosive rise in drug-taking, is not quite alone in resisting the approach of harm reduction promoted by the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, argues Elizabeth Rigbey, responding to openDemocracy’s article Russia’s drugs problem: blame the West
Monday 19th October

Abductions and disappearances in the Philippines

The west looks away, observes Mark Dearn

The posthumous victory of socialist realism

Gorki reads to Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov

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

Killing aid

The anti-aid argument is too crude, says Chola Mukanga

Suicide bomb in Iran kills 42

42 people killed and dozens injured in a suicide bombing in Iran's southeast. Civilians flee as Pakistan launches South Waziristan offensive. South Sudan village raided, seven die. Gun battles and bombings in southern Russia. UN passes resolution in support of Gaza report. All in today's security briefing.

What can be learnt from piracy

Daniele Archibugi reflects on a new history of piracy
Friday 16th October

What was communism?

A lasting judgment of the system that imploded in 1989 needs a large view. Fred Halliday's your man

AfPak: the unwinnable war

The US is preparing to escalate and retool in Afghanistan. But Pakistan shows why it can't win

Silvio Berlusconi: the last battle

Italy's showman-premier faces a struggle that will test his "postmodern populism" to the limit
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