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Published in: oDRA Soldier’s Tale 8: violence is no jokeOur conscript Tolya continues his study of violence in his airborne division of the Russian army
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Published in: oDRUkraine: preserving nationhoodRussian-Ukrainian ties may have deteriorated during Yushchenko’s presidency, but his successor Yanukovych is...
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Published in: oDRIKEA in Russia: Now 'Everything is Possible'...for a priceIKEA, which has publicly railed against corruption in Russia, has itself been caught paying bribes there. Could...
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Published in: oDRRemembering Chekhov in YaltaOn the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Chekhov’s birth, his English biographer Rosamund Bartlett celebrates the...
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Published in: oDRCould partition solve Ukraine’s problems?In the light of Ukraine’s election result, Ethan S. Burger offers a proposal for the creation of a new Ukrainian...
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Published in: oDRA Soldier’s Tale 7: Hopes dashed, business as usual!
Our conscript Tolya had such high hopes of his new posting in the elite regiment of the Russian airborne division,...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: a tale of two electionsOlesia Oleshko, who monitored Ukraine’s 2004 election, compares that election with the one which has just brought...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: Yanukovych – president by default?Viktor Yanukovych was elected president not so much for his pro-Russian platform as because he was the only viable...
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Published in: oDRRussian Reform at a Turning Point
Much of Russian history is characterized by pendulum swings between orthodoxy and reform to overcome backwardness....
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Published in: oDRMoscow protests: Groundhog Day in Triumfalnaya SquareTanya Lokshina, Russia researcher for Human Rights Watch, attended a recent demonstration in her professional...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: Yanukovych’s limited mandateUkraine is a diverse nation with a strong civil society. This could restrain a potentially authoritarian political...
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Published in: oDRA Soldier's Tale 6: new beginnings? Perhaps!
Conscript Tolya has been moved again, this time to a show regiment. Life suddenly looks rather better, but is it for real?
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Published in: oDRRussian unemployment: massaging the stats
The economic crisis has hit Russian regions hard. Natalya Zubarevich deems government solutions to the resulting...
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Published in: oDRWho is Russia's top intellectual?
Throughout Russian and Soviet history, the intellectual has played a central and hugely influential role in society....
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Published in: oDRA Soldier’s Tale (5): a new life? Not b… likely!
Our conscript, Tolya, has left basic training. He hopes that things will be different, but his hopes are soon dashed...
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Published in: oDRThe wilting petals of Georgia’s rose revolution
There were such hopes for the future in Georgia after the Rose Revolution in 2004, but history is running backwards,...
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Published in: oDRRussia and the Eastern Partnership: from zero-sum to positive-sumAlexander Sergunin is right that Moscow is concerned the EU’s Eastern Partnership is setting out to undermine its...
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Published in: oDREU and Russia: an Eastern Partnership Muddling on?Moscow’s attitude towards the EU fluctuates. There are deep-seated doubts that the EU is attempting to undermine...
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Published in: oDRWinter Storm in TatarstanJobs are scarce, pension rises mediocre and the local authorities have even taken away the Christmas trees. But...
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Published in: oDRA Soldier’s Tale (4): the army paradox
Letters are a life-line for Tolya. The army’s a mysterious entity, unknowable by anyone outside it, the conscript...
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