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Published in: oDRRussia: land of the Mob
Russia is deep in reflection about a mass murder that left twelve dead. For Andrei Konchalovsky, the most shocking...
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Published in: oDRPartners in pragmatism: Why the EU should give a little to take a lot
The EU has missed a trick or two in grasping Russia's foreign policy potential, says Fabrizio Tassinari. If they...
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Published in: oDRKushchevskaya: crime and punishment in a Russian village
The story of scores being settled with a brutal mass murder in southern Russia has hit the Russian national press....
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Published in: oDRRussia and Poland: a friendship that must not fail
Since 2008 Russia and Poland have engaged with each other in a way that would previously have been inconceivable....
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Published in: oDRMemory incompatible: the Archangelsk affair continues
When a professor and police colonel were arrested and charged for printing a book in memory of the victims of...
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Published in: oDRPutin’s retreat — beginning at the gates of Moscow
President Medvedev recently sacked the longstanding Moscow mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, despite his closeness to Putin. This...
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Published in: oDRDecapitated dogs and burning bureaus: the year Kazakhstan did democracy
Kazakhstan’s 2010 chairmanship of the OSCE has not passed without controversy. Reforms promised at the beginning of...
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Published in: oDRBelarus election: probably no change at the top
Is the December presidential election going to be more of the same? Lukashenka has been president for 16 years, but...
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Published in: oDR"I'm no hero, but it's time to call a spade a spade" — Parfyonov
On Thursday evening, prominent TV journalist Leonid Parfyonov broke with the etiquette of live award ceremonies, and...
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Published in: oDRThe buzz, the rattle and getting clean: confessions of a former drug addict
10 years ago former tennis prodigy Viktor Potemkin (not his real name) decided to come off heroin and leave the...
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Published in: oDRDon’t mention Transnistria: Moldova on the eve of elections
On Sunday, Moldova goes to the polling booths for the fourth time in nineteen months. Despite the best efforts of...
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Published in: oDRThe Crimean War: not the last crusade
Was the Crimean War really a crusade or was it motivated more by Russia’s need to have access to the Black Sea?...
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Published in: oDRTbilisi: tearing down the past
Charming old buildings in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, often listed, are being pulled down and the city disfigured....
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Published in: oDRAn accusation too far
Last Thursday, Pavel Stroilov presented a piece that alleged I had been paid to publish articles in the Independent,...
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Published in: oDRAfter Lisbon, what next?
This weekend world leaders are assembling in Lisbon to discuss a new NATO security concept for Europe. Yet in...
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Published in: oDRTolstoy's ‘Afterlife’: an Ambivalent Centenary
Tolstoy died on 20 November 1910, but official Russian celebrations of the centenary have been muted. Rosamund...
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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: oDRThe road to electoral perfection in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan’s October parliamentary elections revealed a number of teething problems in law and systems, write Alexey...
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Published in: oDRElections in Kyrgyzstan: a step towards democracy?
Will Kyrgyzstan’s progress towards democracy, initiated after the April Revolution, be undermined by victory of the...
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Published in: oDRA life in free fall: a Russian drug addict's story (1)
Irina Teplinskaya was born with every advantage. But when she started taking drugs, there was no effective help to...