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Published in: oDRKhodorkovsky trial: a regime in the dockThe accusations against Khodorkovsky have collapsed now that two senior establishment figures have testified. He may...
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Published in: oDRWhen enemies are better than friendsRather than emphasising friends and allies, today's Russian leaders prefer to single out their enemies, writes...
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Published in: oDRVoznesensky: elegy for a fashionable poetThe poet Andrei Voznesensky died on 1 June. One of the former “big 4” Soviet poets, he managed to hang on to his...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: referendum in a time of upheavalJudith Beyer observes the run-up to Kyrgyzstan’s constitutional referendum from the vantage point of the...
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Published in: oDRCentral Asia: the erupting volcanoThe West turned a blind eye to the potential volatility of Central Asia because it was convenient, in Carlo Ungaro's...
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Published in: oDRThe ethnicisation of violence in Southern KyrgyzstanMedia talk of ‘ethnic conflict’ in Kyrgyzstan is misleading, in that it takes ethnicity to be causal. This does not...
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Published in: oDRAnimals in the CourtroomEx-Yukos bosses Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev stand accused of a crime that even prosecutors are finding...
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Published in: oDRThe Black Widows of Dagestan: Media Hype and Genuine HarmOn April 9 2010, after explosions in the Moscow metro killed 39 people, rumours were circulated of 1,000 ‘black...
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Published in: oDRDoes Russia need a memory law?Russia’s Duma has been trying to draft a ‘memory law’, in order to protect the Soviet version of the events of World...
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Published in: oDRHerb and Spices: Tatarstan's drug problemsIn the third of a series on drugs in Russia's regions, Oleg Pavlov reports from the Republic of Tatarstan, 400 miles...
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Published in: oDRWhy are Kyrgyzstan’s slum dwellers so angry?
If you want to understand what has motivated the uprising of Kyrgyzstan’s poor, you need look no further than the...
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Published in: oDRPoppy seed and mushrooms: Oryol's drug problems
The Oryol Region in central Russia has been fairly successful in dealing with its drug problems, but the approaches...
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Published in: oDRDiviner's Sage and Hawaiian Rose: Sakhalin's drug problems
Throwing money at a problem doesn’t always solve it. Allocations for drug control have been increased on Sakhalin,...
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Published in: oDRTurkmenbashi is dead! Long live Turkmenbashi?A recently published book about President Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan confirms that the cult of personality is...
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Published in: oDRGeorgia's Promising Elections
The recent local elections in Georgia were deemed “free and fair”, but the opposition remains fragmented. Parliament...
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Published in: oDRGeorgia's Muddled Elections
Does President Saakashvili really deserve international plaudits for his party’s decisive victory in Georgia’s...
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Published in: oDRRector takes on Ukranian Security ServicesOn May 18, the Ukrainian Security Services paid a strange visit to Borys Gudziak, rector of the Ukrainian Catholic...
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Published in: oDRSkating on thin ice in SochiThe 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi threatens to be overshadowed by a centuries-old row between Russia and the...
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Published in: oDRLev Tolstoy: world literature’s first pop starRelief at being freed from the deadening Soviet tradition of grandiose literary anniversaries, and socialist...
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Published in: oDRPresident Medvedev summons Russia’s human rights workers
On 19 May, at a meeting with the main human rights organizations working in the republics of the North Caucasus,...
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