Susan Richards is a founder of openDemocracy. She has produced a number of feature films and written a prize-winning book, 'Epics of Everyday Life', about the lives of ordinary Russians in the transition from communism. 'Lost & Found in Russia', 'Encounters in the Deep Heartland', which covers the period 1992-2008, was published by IB Tauris in May 2009.
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Published in: oDRRussia's security services: back in charge, out of control
Russia’s security apparatus is back in charge — as powerful, and with less holding it back than ever before. Susan...
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Published in: oDRTolstoy: a life too large
What else could possibly be written about Tolstoy? Before reading Rosamund Bartlett’s new biography, Susan Richards...
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Published in: oDRLiberating Pushkin
Russia’s greatest poet Alexander Pushkin is notoriously hard for non-Russian speakers to appreciate. So Susan...
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Published in: oDRRussia's drugs problem: blame the West
Why is Russia resisting international help with its spiralling drugs problem, asks Susan Richards? While the...
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