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Published in: oDRNatasha Estemirova: one year onOn 15 July 2009 Natasha Estemirova was kidnapped outside her flat in Grozny, bundled into a car, driven away and...
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Published in: oDRCoats and turncoats: translating Pushkin’s The Captain’s DaughterTranslating Alexander Pushkin’s novel The Captain’s Daughter launched Robert Chandler on a journey of revelations...
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Published in: oDRLiberating PushkinRussia’s greatest poet Alexander Pushkin is notoriously hard for non-Russian speakers to appreciate. So Susan...
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Published in: oDR"Be innovative!", orders the KremlinThe Russian attempt to build Silicon Valley in Skolkovo is a case of throwing good money after bad, argues Andrei...
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Published in: oDRForbidden Art verdict: they're in mourning for Soviet censorshipOn 12 July, the judge found Andrei Erofeev and Yurii Samodurov, organisers of the exhibition Forbidden Art – 2006,...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan’s referendum brings a flicker of hopeThe new constitution which the Kyrgyz people voted in on 27 June 2010 seeks to break the presidential pattern of...
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Published in: oDRBelarusian "godfather" falls out with his masters
On the eve of a Customs Union agreement between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Russian state television began an...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: bulldozing the Orange building
President Yanukovych is steadily demolishing the gains of the Orange Revolution. This turn towards Moscow looks...
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Published in: oDRRussia back in the dock over 'Forbidden Art'Three years ago an exhibition at Moscow’s Sakharov Centre of previously banned work entitled Forbidden Art led to...
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Published in: oDRPoetry in pictures: a film about Joseph BrodskyAndrei Khrzhanovskii’s recent Russian film about the poet Joseph Brodsky evokes elements of his childhood, internal...
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Published in: oDRKhodorkovsky trial: a regime in the dockThe accusations against Khodorkovsky have collapsed now that two senior establishment figures have testified. He may...
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Published in: oDRWhen enemies are better than friendsRather than emphasising friends and allies, today's Russian leaders prefer to single out their enemies, writes...
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Published in: oDRVoznesensky: elegy for a fashionable poetThe poet Andrei Voznesensky died on 1 June. One of the former “big 4” Soviet poets, he managed to hang on to his...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: referendum in a time of upheavalJudith Beyer observes the run-up to Kyrgyzstan’s constitutional referendum from the vantage point of the...
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Published in: oDRCentral Asia: the erupting volcanoThe West turned a blind eye to the potential volatility of Central Asia because it was convenient, in Carlo Ungaro's...
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Published in: oDRThe ethnicisation of violence in Southern KyrgyzstanMedia talk of ‘ethnic conflict’ in Kyrgyzstan is misleading, in that it takes ethnicity to be causal. This does not...
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Published in: oDRAnimals in the CourtroomEx-Yukos bosses Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev stand accused of a crime that even prosecutors are finding...
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Published in: oDRThe Black Widows of Dagestan: Media Hype and Genuine HarmOn April 9 2010, after explosions in the Moscow metro killed 39 people, rumours were circulated of 1,000 ‘black...
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Published in: oDRDoes Russia need a memory law?
Russia’s Duma has been trying to draft a ‘memory law’, in order to protect the Soviet version of the events of World...
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Published in: oDRHerb and Spices: Tatarstan's drug problemsIn the third of a series on drugs in Russia's regions, Oleg Pavlov reports from the Republic of Tatarstan, 400 miles...
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