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Published in: oDRDown on the farm: a history lesson in KazanStalin’s collectivization of agriculture in the USSR in the 1930s led to famine, repression and widespread family...
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Published in: oDRTricky business in AbkhaziaSince Abkhazia declared its independence from Georgia in 2008, Russian money has been pouring in. But when it comes...
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Published in: oDRDon't get me wrong, Mr Travin!Mary Dejevsky was surprised when her enthusiastic profile of St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko in...
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Published in: oDROryol: when the ‘new nobility’ turned terroristThe sleepy city of Oryol has erupted in terrorism. Investigations revealed how frustration at the state of Russia...
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Published in: oDRRussian documentary film: extinct, or almost. Interview with Vitaly Mansky. Part twoDuring perestroika Russians flocked to documentary films to find out about their ‘lost’ history. Then they lost...
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Published in: oDRMatviyenko for President? I think not!To the amusement of the Russian media, an article appeared in Britain’s The Independent on 6 September suggesting...
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Published in: oDRPutin: on the shifting sands of doubt
A recent Kommersant newspaper interview with Putin revealed the extent of his isolation from reality and inability...
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Published in: oDRRussian documentary film: extinct, or almost. Interview with Vitaly ManskyIn the late 80s Russians flocked to documentary films to find out about their ‘lost’ history. Now they’re becoming...
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Published in: oDRYaroslau Romanchuk: my vision of a post-Lukashenka BelarusNext year's presidential elections offer a real opportunity of disposing a tired, weakened and unpopular Lukashenka,...
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Published in: oDRA prognosis for Ukraine's ebbing democracySix months into office, Yanukovych has moved swiftly to strengthen government. Indications are mounting that his...
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Published in: oDRUkraine's new regime: the first 200 days
Mykola Riabchuk is one of Ukraine’s leading intellectuals. In an interview with Ingo Petz he outlines his views on...
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Published in: oDRWanted: Economic Equality to Mend Kyrgyzstan
Media reports of disturbances in Kyrgyzstan’s two main cities Bishkek and Osh focused on human rights and ethnicity....
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Published in: oDRBeware of meddling in Kyrgyzstan!Despite deep fissures in Kyrgyz society in the aftermath of the upheavals, external intervention would be...
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Published in: oDRKaliningrad's Day of AngerSome weeks ago Kaliningrad achieved a first in Russia by getting its governor Georgy Boos fired by the Kremlin. On...
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Published in: oDRThe Battle for Khimki ForestThe plan to construct a section of the new Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway through the legally-protected Khimki Forest...
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Published in: oDRThe Poet and the Tsar
When Putin sat down to tea with artists and musicians before a charity concert last month, he could not have...
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Published in: oDRLaid low by the heatThe Russian heat wave has been going on for weeks. From her dacha Elena Strelnikova gives a wry account of officials...
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Published in: oDRPutin in a ring of fire
Russian government attempts to deal with the heat wave and the resulting widespread forest fires have been much...
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Published in: oDRDreaming of the sea, or a holiday in MoynaqDaniel Metcalfe's book ‘Out of Steppe’ describes his journey through Central Asia. In this excerpt he describes the...
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Published in: oDRRussia burns: an updateLack of personnel and organizational incompetence have seriously hampered the Russian response to forest fires,...
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