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Published in: oDRCharisma and complications: the legacy of Abkhazia’s founding fatherWith the death of Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazia’s first president, a period of post-Soviet upheaval passes further...
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Published in: oDRForums and flame wars in GeorgiaDuring the war with Russia in 2008, Georgians turned to online media in a big way. But with Western funding...
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Published in: oDRWhy are Chechens so angry?Why do Chechen women volunteer to blow themselves and their fellow citizens up on the crowded Moscow metro? The...
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Published in: oDRDon't mention the bombingsThe terrorist bombs pose a problem for the Kremlin, Sam Greene reports from Moscow. Since tightening the screws has...
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Published in: oDRCracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 3Henry Marsh, an English neurosurgeon, tells the story of his twenty-year friendship with Igor Kurilets, a young...
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Published in: oDRCracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 2Henry Marsh, an English neurosurgeon, tells the story of his twenty-year friendship with Igor Kurilets, a young...
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Published in: oDRVictims of the bulldogs under that carpetIn Maxim Kantor’s opinion, the 39 deaths in the Moscow metro bombings on 29 March are victims of that fight between...
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Published in: oDRCracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 1Henry Marsh, an English neurosurgeon, tells the story of his twenty-year friendship with Igor Kurilets, a young...
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Published in: oDRUnder Western eyes: reflections on Tolya’s letters
In conversation with oDRussia’s Deputy Editor, a former British Army officer reflects on Tolya’s experience as a...
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Published in: oDRA Soldier's TaleopenDemocracy Russia now puts together in one document the 9 letters written by Tolya (probably not his real name),...
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Published in: oDRUses and abuses of Stalin’s image
The Levada Center has been monitoring Russian attitudes to Stalin for years. Alexei Levinson, reviewing changing...
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Published in: oDRStyle over kitsch: the four lives of David SarkisyanRussia has lost a great dissident campaigner for Moscow’s built heritage with the death of David Sarkisyan, museum...
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Published in: oDRThe rise and fall of Mikhail KhodorkovskyDoes a personal vendetta lie behind the imprisonment of Russia’s once-richest oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Was...
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Published in: oDRKafka’s Castle is collapsingYou can’t reason with the absurd, as IKEA found when it tried to build a model business in Russia. Institutional...
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Published in: oDRArthur Koestler: 20th century manArthur Koestler, whose turbulent life charts the intellectual history of the 20thc in the West, has finally found a...
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Published in: oDRIs Russia’s judicial system reformable?In this interview for oDRussia, Prof.Alena Ledeneva talks to Oliver Carroll about the prospects for judicial reform...
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Published in: oDRTackling Russia’s legal nihilismOlga Kudeshkina made headlines in 2004 as the first Russian judge to flag up political interference in the judicial...
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Published in: oDRGrozny: Rebuilt, Fearful and (Almost) Forgotten by the West
Downtown Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, is ablaze with lights and full of chic shops now. But the paralysing fear...
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Published in: oDRDedovshchina: bullying in the Russian Army
While bullying (see our Soldier’s Tales) is common to all armies, the aberration that is dedovshchina in Russia’s...
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Published in: oDRA Soldier's Tale 9: changed, but not utterly dehumanised
In his final letter home from the army our conscript Tolya “finds” a mobile phone, is pursued by a mad officer and...
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