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Published in: oDRTurkmenbashi is dead! Long live Turkmenbashi?A recently published book about President Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan confirms that the cult of personality is...
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Published in: oDRGeorgia's Promising ElectionsThe recent local elections in Georgia were deemed “free and fair”, but the opposition remains fragmented. Parliament...
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Published in: oDRGeorgia's Muddled Elections
Does President Saakashvili really deserve international plaudits for his party’s decisive victory in Georgia’s...
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Published in: oDRRector takes on Ukranian Security ServicesOn May 18, the Ukrainian Security Services paid a strange visit to Borys Gudziak, rector of the Ukrainian Catholic...
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Published in: oDRSkating on thin ice in SochiThe 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi threatens to be overshadowed by a centuries-old row between Russia and the...
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Published in: oDRLev Tolstoy: world literature’s first pop starRelief at being freed from the deadening Soviet tradition of grandiose literary anniversaries, and socialist...
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Published in: oDRPresident Medvedev summons Russia’s human rights workers
On 19 May, at a meeting with the main human rights organizations working in the republics of the North Caucasus,...
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Published in: oDRThe house that Melnikov builtMoscow’s superb legacy of Constructivist architecture has suffered since Neo-Classicism became the official style in...
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Published in: oDRBelarus gears up for electionAlyaksandr Lukashenka's support is waning — both domestically and from Russia — and he now looks the the most...
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Published in: oDRChildren in care: the Russian orphan industry
For those in Russia with an interest in preserving the status quo, youth justice is a Western invention with no...
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Published in: oDRChildren in prison
The approach to juvenile lawbreakers in Russia and in England & Wales is more punitive than in other European...
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Published in: oDRRussia-Ukraine: bridge building?What was the upshot of the recent Kiev meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents? Will the bridge between...
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Published in: oDRFighting for Magnitsky (part 2)Six months on from the controversial prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Oliver Carroll spoke to key witness...
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Published in: oDRFighting for Magnitsky: an interview with Jamison Firestone (part 1)Six months on from the controversial prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Oliver Carroll spoke to key witness...
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Published in: oDRCrimes in the CaucasusDocumenting a great historical tragedy unknown to most, Oliver Bullough's new book is a fascinating and...
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Published in: oDRCircassian Nationalism and the InternetCircassian communities are scattered throughout the North Caucasus and the diaspora is spread throughout the world....
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan and Georgia: two very different countriesIn the run-up to municipal elections in Georgia, Ivan Sukhov points out that Tbilisi has a lot less in common with...
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Published in: oDRSiberian Shamans Come in From the Cold (part 3)After decades of repression, Siberia’s shamans are re-emerging. Ken Hyder is a musician who performs with a Tuvan...
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Published in: oDRPrison as a death sentenceThe death in custody of Sergei Magnitsky in November shocked the world and mobilised President Medvedev into a...
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Published in: oDRMayor Luzhkov and the reconstruction of MoscowOn 5th May the Moscow authorities approved a new General Plan described by its critics as “the death-knell” for the...
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