Daniil Kotsyubinsky is a Russian historian and journalist based in St. Petersburg
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Published in: oDRTV Rain - the wrong question
A row over a viewer opinion poll has effectively silenced TV Rain, Russia’s most independent TV channel. A pity they...
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Published in: oDRPetersburg, the city with a split personality
Today’s Russia is like a huge ice floe — broken off from contemporary life and drifting further and further from...
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Published in: oDRThe writing on the wall?
On Friday, a Russian news agency had its publishing licence revoked, supposedly for publishing two ‘profane’ Youtube...
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Published in: oDRHas punitive psychiatry returned to Russia?
Harsh sentences have been meted out to Russians who took part in last year’s political demonstrations on Bolotnaya...
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Published in: oDRMessiah or false prophet?
For the past month, Moscow has been following the fortunes of opposition leader Aleksey Navalny — trial,...
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Published in: oDRCloak and Dagger Inc.
Anything concealed from citizens, which also has absolute power over them, may be legal, but is not lawful. Do...