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Published in: oDR"We will grind you into dust": Russian activist Dmitry Pchelintsev on how he was tortured by the security servicesAs a high-profile investigation into alleged terrorism by Russian anarchists goes to trial, we publish an account of...
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Published in: ОД "Русская версия"Невидимая рука: как сливаются воедино государственный и частный сектор экономики в новом УзбекистанеПока Узбекистан пытается провести реформы, результаты недавнего расследования показывают, как государственный и...
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Published in: oDRThe murder that didn’t happenOne year on from the “murder” of a Russian journalist that shocked the world, the promise of a transparent...
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Published in: oDRRevolving doors, invisible hands: how the state and private sector are merging in the new Uzbekistan
As the once infamously corrupt Uzbekistani state tries to reform itself, new research shows how the state and...
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Published in: oDRThe unbearable silence of Chechnya’s lesbiansIn the past two years, this North Caucasus republic has been rocked by anti-LGBT purges, torture and murder....
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Published in: oDRWhy Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequencesUkraine’s new language law, passed at the end of the former president’s rule, makes another attempt to divide...
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Published in: oDRUnder public stigma, families often force young women in Azerbaijan to marry those who raped themI spoke to Azerbaijani women’s rights experts to find out the real scale of the problem.
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Published in: oDRWhy are so many Brexiteer politicians cosying up to this Armenian oligarch?Since 2017 Conservative Eurosceptics have shown a strange fascination for a state in the South Caucasus, paying...
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Published in: oDRThe war in eastern Ukraine left these people without homes. The state is yet to compensate themFive years on from the start of the war, not a single Ukrainian family has managed to get compensation from the...
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Published in: oDR“When we compromise, it’s as if we admit we’re not equal”: Anna Sharyhina on feminism and LGBT rights in UkraineOne of the founders of the feminist and LGBT movement in Kharkiv, Ukraine speaks on violence, tolerance and the...
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Published in: oDRWhat will the European Games bring to ordinary Belarusians?As Minsk prepares to hold another sports mega event this summer, it’s worth thinking about the people who have to...
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Published in: oDRA war of worlds in EkaterinburgIn this city, a scandalous confrontation between the authorities and local citizens over a new Orthodox church is...
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Published in: oDRFighting for a thousand euros in Ukraine’s metal industryWorkers at metallurgical and mining companies in Kryvyi Rih, one of Ukraine’s largest industrial cities, have been...
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Published in: oDRFighting to be seen: how Ukrainian and Russian professional women are securing their place in publicIn Ukraine and Russia, civil society and professional associations are helping women experts to raise their profile...
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Published in: oDRFor men living in Russia’s North Caucasus, life is far from easyWe speak to sociologist Irina Kosterina, who recently studied men’s lives in four North Caucasus republics.
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Published in: oDRUkraine: the International Workers’ Day that we lostIn the Soviet Union, May Day devolved into a formal holiday with little direct political meaning. Today, Ukraine has...
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Published in: oDREstonia: why the far-right in power is the best case scenario for the KremlinMainstream conservatives are increasingly looking to the far right for political support. In Estonia, this means...
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Published in: oDRAre Ukrainian prosecutors disrupting the investigation into the murder of Kateryna Handzyuk?The high-profile investigation into the shocking murder of Ukrainian activist Kateryna Handzyuk is beginning to fall...
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Published in: oDRThe people’s rebellion, or why a showman became president of UkraineIn their wholesale rejection of the incumbent president, Ukrainian citizens have followed the logic of France’s...
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Published in: oDRWhy Kazakh political prisoner Max Bokayev should be releasedIn 2016, Max Bokayev, an environmental activist, was sentenced to five years in prison. His case remains a warning...
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