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Published in: oDR: NewsHalf of Russians think ‘kindness’ is their key national trait, finds poll
Russian respondents to the survey also reported feeling ‘pride’ and ‘a sense of justice’ about the ‘special military...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionRussia’s working class and Ukraine: hope for an end to Kremlin expansionism?
While Russia’s ruling elite clamps down on anti-Ukraine war protests, its working class could be the key to a...
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Published in: oDR: InterviewWhat do persecuted Russian Muslim converts tell us about Putin’s Russia?
Interview: Olga Kravets discusses her book on Russian converts to Islam, and how their repression bodes ill for...
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Published in: oDR‘They shot everyone but her’: One woman’s story of war in Ukraine
One day, she led a normal life. The next, she was in a basement with six other families. Such stories are the...
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Published in: oDR‘We’re different people now’: A Ukrainian writer reflects on months of war
Writer Andrei Krasniashchikh fled Kharkiv with his family in March. They are now among the millions of internally...
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Published in: oDR: Feature‘War is terrible. But today is a holiday’: how Russia celebrated Victory Day
Across Russia, people mark the Soviet Union’s victory in World War Two - and the brutal war against Ukraine
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Published in: oDR: OpinionWe must act to reject Putin’s conservative ‘victory cult’
On the 77th anniversary of the end of Second World War, the anti-fascist inheritance of the Russian Federation faces...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionSelf-determination and the war in Ukraine
The Western Left argues that supplying weapons to Ukraine will prolong the war and increase fatalities. In fact, the...
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Published in: oDR: ExplainerWhat you need to know about Transnistria
As Moldova faces being dragged into Russia’s war against Ukraine via Transnistria, it seems neither Chișinău nor its...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionDid the Kremlin launch an invasion to guarantee Putin’s succession?
Independent Russia has yet to come up with a way of transferring power other than war
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Published in: oDR: FeatureDown and out in Kyiv: how Russia’s invasion has hit homeless people
From volunteers’ help and empathy to alleged removal from the city by police: Kyiv’s homeless people recount their...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionTransnistria and Moldova: a lesson in Russian power play
Events that led to the formation of the breakaway republic of Transnistria offer a cautionary tale about patterns of...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureRoubles and repression: how life in Russian-occupied Kherson is changing
Daily life in an occupied Ukrainian city continues with a veneer of normality – and an undercurrent of shortages,...
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisThe war in Ukraine has caused a housing crisis. Here’s how to combat it
With seven million Ukrainians internally displaced, the search for empty buildings to repurpose isn’t enough
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Published in: oDR: FeatureZelenskyi’s spokesperson: soldier, actor, psychologist, propagandist
Oleksiy Arestovych, presidential adviser and key spokesperson for Ukraine at war, has a strange past
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Published in: oDR: FeatureHow central Ukraine is reacting to war and its new displaced residents
Ukrainians fleeing war in their hometowns are settling in the city of Cherkasy. Here are their stories
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisWhat Russia-Ukraine war means for disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory
Thousands of Russians have fled to the Armenian capital of Yerevan. But the war has far bigger implications for the...
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Published in: oDR: Feature‘You betrayed the Motherland’: Russians are being fired for speaking out
openDemocracy talks to three people who have received abuse at work – or even lost their jobs – after objecting to...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionThe US and UK made Russia’s invasion of Ukraine possible. I saw it happen
Joe Biden wants ‘regime change’ in Russia. Last time the US did this, the result was kleptocratic capitalism and...
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisWhy do Russians support the war against Ukraine?
More than 100 new interviews by Russian researchers have shed light on the different groups in Russian society who...