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Published in: oDRParroting historyHistory teaching has fallen victim to politics in Russia. Educational standards are falling and children are not...
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Published in: oDRWhat's left of Orange Ukraine?Though political infighting continues to hinder reform, Ukraine’s new president is equally unlikely to drop the...
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Published in: oDRBreaking point: why the Kyrgyz lost their patienceKyrgyzstan is suffering from a crisis of governance, reports Madeleine Reeves. But an analysis of the problems that...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: what is to be done?The ineptitude of policies championed by the USA is to blame for the political violence in Kyrgyzstan which...
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Published in: oDRRussia-Poland: a history too terribleThe plane crash at Smolensk which Poland’s president has provoked an outpouring of Russian sympathy, from Putin...
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Published in: oDRCould Abkhazia be smothered by its new best friend?Seventeen years after civil war, Abkhazia is finally recovering under Russian protection. But many inside the...
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Published in: oDRUkraine's political merry-go-round
The new Ukrainian government has turned out to be a rather ugly bunch: coarse, corrupt, opaque and inexperienced...
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Published in: oDRTipping the board in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan’s ex-president Bakiev had not delivered on his promise to Russia to close the American airbase at Manas,...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s people: what is a just war?
Russia’s people do not bow to government opinion on the subject of war, a revealing survey of public attitudes by...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: fractured, but not broken
Kyrgyzstan’s government has fallen, its provisional rulers are untested, and there is as yet no sign of a lasting...
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Published in: oDRCentral Asia: new security challengesKyrgyzstan’s violence underscores the instability of those former Soviet governments which are burdened by...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: what will happen to the tulips?As another “colour revolution” is overthrown in Kyrgyzstan, Boris Dolgin reflects that it changed nothing. Will the...
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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 bombings
The 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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