Dmitry Okrest

Dmitry Okrest is a correspondent for RBC. He is author of two books, It Collapsed: Everyday History of the Soviet Union and Russia, 1985-1999 and Life without the State: The Revolution in Kurdistan.

Unpaid wages halt progress at Russia’s flagship space project

The Russian government is throwing money at its new cosmodrome in the Far East. Its workers, however, have seen very little of it. Русский

By Dmitry Okrest

/ 10 Jul 2015

The uncertain future of the Crimean Tatars

As reports of kidnapping, intimidation and criminal investigations into Crimean Tatars continue to emerge from the peninsula, the future of this Turkic minority looks uncertain. Русский

By Dmitry Okrest

/ 27 Feb 2015

Russian nationalism can be deadly

As the trial of an extreme Russian nationalist organisation continues in Moscow this month, the parents of one of their victims try to come to terms with what has happened. Русский

By Dmitry Okrest

/ 28 Jan 2015