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Published in: oDRRussia's dead end prison systemRussia imprisons a proportion of its citizens higher than any other major country except the US. And with its...
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Published in: oDR"Jacks-in-the-box": Orenburg’s migrant workersBordering Kazakhstan, Orenburg is a first destination for migrant workers from post-Soviet Central Asia. In her...
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Published in: oDRBelarus: the president's dilemmaA dramatic devaluation of the national currency has combined with international isolation to plunge the usually...
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Published in: oDRDead souls: rank and responsibility in the Russian militaryIn 2010, the Russian military experienced acute delays with procurement. The official response to the affair was...
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Published in: oDRA very Georgian disagreementPost-Soviet Georgia is no stranger to drama or revolution, and after a short interregnum, the country once again...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s queer democratisationLGBT people in Russia face a daily battle with homophobia and discrimination, and the decision to ban tomorrow's Gay...
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Published in: oDRPutin’s National Front: lifebelt for a sinking regime?Prime Minister Putin’s attempts to shore up his falling popularity ratings have now extended to setting up a new...
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Published in: oDRTatarstan: religious coexistence too important to failChristians, Jews and Muslims have lived side by side for generations in Tatarstan. The Soviet period cut a swathe...
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Published in: oDRRight cause. (Pity about the party...)Last week, controversial billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov stepped up to head “The Right Cause”, a right-liberal party...
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part IIIA lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part IIA lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part IA lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: oDRViolence, death and cover-up in the Russian armyHazing of new recruits is infamously widespread in the Russian army and families of men who have died find their...
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Published in: oDRWTO membership: confused by the double-headed eagleRussia has taken seventeen years of WTO negotiations to get to a stage that most candidate countries reach after...
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Published in: oDRRussia: an opinion-poll democracyOn the eve of Presidential elections, Dmitry Medvedev has sprung to life and inserted political distance between...
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Published in: oDRGleb Pavlovsky: the final actRussian “political technologist” Gleb Pavlovsky is considered a master of political intrigue and backstage games,...
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Published in: oDRHalf a victory: the campaign to free Soviet JewsThe campaign to give Soviet Jews the right to leave their country brought two diasporas and a world superpower...
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Published in: oDRHuman rights for Russian drug addicts: I will not be silenced!Arguments over the benefits of opiate substitution therapy versus abstinence as the most successful way of dealing...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: Europe its brightest hopeIn an interview with journalist Olena Tregub, political scientist Andreas Umland argues that Ukrainian integration...
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Published in: oDRThe Russians in Afghanistan: part IIIn the second part of exclusive extracts from "Afgantsy", Rodric Braithwaite focuses on the soldiers who served in...
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