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Published in: oDRA life in free fall: a Russian drug addict's story (2)In Russia drug addicts are seen as scum: the sooner they die, the better. In this second part of her story Irina...
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Published in: oDRLies and Innuendos: What happens when you take on the Russian far rightResearching the Russian nationalistic right is a game of high stakes. Last year, I found out the hard way, writes...
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Published in: oDRRussian regional elections: business as usualVoting at the recent local elections in Orenburg Oblast was listless and perfunctory. Voters don’t know the...
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Published in: oDRTime for the human approachDmitry Medvedev’s proposal for a new post-cold war security order offers a significant opportunity for the world....
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Published in: oDRFridman: How I became an oligarchWhat do you need to succeed in business?A mixture of luck and good judgement, according to Mikhail Fridman, one of...
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Published in: oDRSticks and stones: the blogs of Oleg KashinOleg Kashin, a journalist for Kommersant newspaper, was brutally beaten in Moscow last weekend. Unknown assailants...
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Published in: oDRLebedev's tangled webAt the beginning of September, the Independent’s Mary Dejevsky presented an improbably flattering portrait of St...
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Published in: oDRRussia and Georgia: the Circassian questionA series of recent international conferences have pushed the Circassian question on to the international agenda....
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Published in: oDROleg Kashin: words that crippleLast week in Moscow the journalist Oleg Kashin was thrashed to within an inch of his life. President Medvedev has...
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Published in: oDRA national museum to the victims of Stalinist repression: words not deeds?President Medvedev may have declared his support for a museum complex outside St Petersburg in memory of Soviet...
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Published in: oDRTowards the Rehabilitation of Law: interview with Bill BowringBill Bowring is well known to anybody interested in international law, and especially in human rights in Russia....
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Published in: oDRChekhov House: a story with a happy endingThe Chekhov house, garden and archive in Yalta is a site of unique international cultural importance. Short of...
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Published in: oDRA strategy for North Caucasus: don’t mention politics or religion!The recently published Russian government strategy paper for the North Caucasus chooses to focus solely on the...
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Published in: oDRKhodorkovsky trial: a test for the presidentThe sacking of Moscow mayor Luzhkov and the continuing debacle of Khodorkovsky's second trial could be seen as tests...
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Published in: oDRDon’t be quick to judge the new UkraineForeign analysis of contemporary Ukrainian politics has alleged a black-white conversion from freedom to autocracy....
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Published in: oDRDaring to speak out in BelarusA chilling account of brave journalists in Lukashenka’s Belarus, so many of whom die in unexplained circumstances....
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Published in: oDROutcasts — inmates of the Black Eagle
In Stalin’s time there were nearly a hundred GULag camps in Ivdel. Today, the maximum security penal colony FBU-IK...
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s constitutional debate: finding the way forwardA vital national debate about constitutional reform is under way in Ukraine. But the debate often takes no account...
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Published in: oDRSochi: a city with no mosqueIn 2014 Russia will host the Winter Olympics in Sochi, once upon a time the capital of independent Circassia. The...
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Published in: oDRGet real about ‘enlarging Europe’
Membership of EU and NATO continues to be a thorny question for the countries of Eastern Europe and for Turkey....
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