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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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Published in: oDRIn memoriam Igor Kon: a personal viewIgor Kon, one of Russia’s leading intellectuals and one of the founding fathers of Soviet sociology, has died aged...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s future — in its pastRussian intellectual Igor Kon has died aged 82. Here we present one of his final essays, first published on our...
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Published in: oDRThe Arab Spring and the Soviet parallel
Writing last week on openDemocracy, John Keane suggested we need new words to describe the Arab Spring. Stephen...
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Published in: oDRThe Russians in Afghanistan: part IThe Russian experience in Afghanistan is not a simple story. Far from being the imperialist expansion it is...
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Published in: oDRThe last prisonerPavel Galitsky spent fifteen years in the brutal labour camps of Kolyma, Siberia. Against the odds, the 100-year old...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: pain, but no grainUkraine is known as the breadbasket of Europe, but something very strange is going on in the grain market, writes...
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Published in: oDRRussia's multicultural mythWhen a spokesman from Russia's migration service spoke about the purity of the white Russian race, he was summarily...
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Published in: oDR“Nelegaly”: work and shelter in migrant MoscowTen days ago, an “underground town” of migrant workers was discovered below a military factory in Moscow. The...
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Published in: oDRPutin-Medvedev: Russia's managed dramaA combination of factors make it virtually certain that Putin will emerge as president in next year's elections. The...
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Published in: oDRChernobyl: the first monthTwenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, Barys Piatrovich recalls the tension of unknowing that gripped him...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: a crisis of self-identityUkrainian identity has historically been defined in opposition to Russia, but an anti-Russian agenda is unable to...
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Published in: oDRKeeping the Cossack legend alive - agreed?The Cossacks have played an important part at various times in Russian history. Now their ranks are diluted by...
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Published in: oDRThe vicious bind: rights and corruption in RussiaAn analysis of human rights violations in Russia reveals the extent to which they occur as the direct result of...
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