Oliver Bullough

Oliver Bullough is a journalist and the author of 'Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back'. and 'Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus'. He was a Reuters Moscow correspondent.

Лицензии для военного преступника: как британское правительство поддержало иск Евгения Пригожина против независимого журналиста

Расследование openDemocracy раскрыло детали иска о клевете, предъявленного Евгением Пригожиным основателю платформы Bellingcat Элиоту Хиггинсу в 2020 году. Пригожин действовал через лондонскую адвокатскую фирму, а британское правительство систематически и на всех этапах поддерживало иск военного п

By Oliver Bullough, Редакторы oDR and Jim Fitzpatrick

/ 27 Jan 2023

Лицензии для военного преступника: как британское правительство поддержало иск Евгения Пригожина против независимого журналиста

The government let a warlord sue our best journalist. Here’s why it matters

OLIVER BULLOUGH: Yevgeny Prigozhin shows just how much the legal system favours the wealthy over the truth

By Oliver Bullough

/ 25 Jan 2023

The government let a warlord sue our best journalist. Here’s why it matters

A very British censorship: How UK law helps oligarchs silence journalists

OPINION: So-called ‘SLAPP’ cases – like the one now facing openDemocracy – have a chilling effect on scrutiny

By Oliver Bullough

/ 22 Sep 2022

A very British censorship: How UK law helps oligarchs silence journalists

How the UK helps the world’s kleptocrats and crooks – deliberately

‘Financial skulduggery isn’t just something that happens in the UK; there has been a concerted and decades-long effort to encourage it to do so’This is an extract from ‘Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals’ by Oliver Bullough, publi

By Oliver Bullough

/ 8 Mar 2022

How the UK helps the world’s kleptocrats and crooks – deliberately

Boris Johnson is lying – the UK could have done far more to stop Russia

As Putin created tyranny in Russia, UK prime ministers cosied up to him on official visits and laundered his friends’ money

By Oliver Bullough

/ 26 Feb 2022

Boris Johnson is lying – the UK could have done far more to stop Russia

The Geoffrey Cox headlines look bad – the reality is worse

The British Virgin islands is not a country, it’s a loophole used to dodge tax, regulations, laws and oversight – and the Tory MP is helping it to do so

By Oliver Bullough

/ 9 Nov 2021

The Geoffrey Cox headlines look bad – the reality is worse

Dimon Don't Cry

The Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, doesn't like his online nickname “Dimon,” but whatever we think of Dimon’s playground problems how does one stand up to online bullies? And why are so many of them Russian?

By Oliver Bullough

/ 19 Apr 2013

Two fingers to the court: why right-wing criticism of the ECtHR is misguided

Following the UK government’s bungled attempt to deport Abu Qatada, many Tory MPs have taken to heavy criticism of the European Court of Human Rights. While their rhetoric may please parts of the domestic audience, it risks damaging the very serious and substantial human rights work the Court is d

By Oliver Bullough

/ 2 May 2012

Arda’s flags: a postcard from Abkhazia

The strategic significance and territorial claims on the region of Abkhazia have meant its citizens have become used to a life lived in geopolitical limbo. Following the 2008 South Ossetia war, however, a small number of small countries began to recognise Abkhazian independence. A tailor thought o

By Oliver Bullough

/ 27 Jan 2012

Poking with the human rights stick

Critical human rights reports from Western agencies have long been the source of consternation among Russian officials. At the end of last month, the Russian Foreign Ministry launched a counterattack, publishing a report highlighting supposed violations in the West. Oliver Bullough was surprised a

By Oliver Bullough

/ 20 Jan 2012

Half a victory: the campaign to free Soviet Jews

The campaign to give Soviet Jews the right to leave their country brought two diasporas and a world superpower together in an unlikely alliance. Yet while it was a brilliantly fought battle, it could hardly be described as a total triumph for human rights, writes Oliver Bullough.

By Oliver Bullough

/ 12 May 2011

Loss of Chechnya: the case for the defence

Chechnya’s ex-foreign minister Ilyas Akhmadov has published a book chronicling the loss of his republic to Russia. Politicians from other countries with similar tales of loss and betrayal have tried to justify their actions in the same way. Oliver Bullough examines the current situation in the lig

By Oliver Bullough

/ 21 Mar 2011