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Published in: oDRKiss and run: documentary casts fresh light on pro-Putin youth movementPlucked from obscurity in the Russian provinces, Masha Drokova was a rising star of the pro-Kremlin youth movement...
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Published in: oDRRussia: farewell to 'national unity'Vladimir Putin may have won Sunday’s presidential election, but his new term is unlikely to be an easy one. Russia...
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Published in: oDRVladimir Putin: his place in history
Vladimir Putin’s one great achievement is the restoration of bureaucratic order after its near destruction by...
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Published in: oDRThe Akunin-Navalny interviews: part III
Politician-blogger Alexei Navalny and writer Grigory Chkhartishvili (a.k.a Boris Akunin) conclude their dialogue...
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Published in: HomeA Brief Biological Guide to American Political Amphibians and ReptilesIn this educational piece the author describes the neoteny exhibited by the political species
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Published in: oDRRussia’s virtual: the new reality?
Russia's blogosphere has until recently been largely written off as a politically blunt parallel space. The Facebook...
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Published in: oDR'I am Putin's propaganda'Is it possible to challenge censors without losing your livelihood? Polina Bykhovskaya interviews the men and women...
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Published in: oDRAfter the Duma election: where is Russia heading?
Last Wednesday oDR and the Russia Foundation held a roundtable event reflecting on the country's disputed...
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Published in: oDRRussian TV: a different truth for east and west?Russia’s 9 time zones are often exploited by TV management to pull controversial programmes, but the internet has...
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Published in: oDRThe Russian state and surveillance technologyThe Russian blogosphere has burgeoned into a open-door sanctuary for all strands of political opinion. Predictably,...
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Published in: oDRA queen above politics: Alla PugachevaAlla Pugacheva has ruled Russian pop for more than 40 years, surviving criticism and change while endearing herself...
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Published in: oDRI choose the truth: confessions of an ‘improper’ journalist in DonetskIn Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine, ‘proper’ journalism means asking few questions and communicating few answers. Those who...
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Published in: oDRAn open letter from Aleksey Matsuka
Last Sunday, unknown arsonists attempted to torch the apartment of oD author and investigative journalist Aleksey...
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Published in: oDRGeorgia: no pictures - no democracy!The recent arrest and detention of a group of photojournalists on apparently trumped-up charges continues to be a...
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Published in: oDRUnwritten loyalties: journalism in the Russian regionsSelf-censorship was an important feature of Soviet life, but old habits, it seems, die hard. Mikhail Loginov reports...
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Published in: oDRRussian provincial media: what price freedom?The degree of press freedom in Russia has fluctuated violently over the 20 years since the fall of communism. The...
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Published in: oDRNews of the World: the Russian parallel?
After months of slow-burn, the British phone "hacking" scandal (where the News of the World was shown to have gained...
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Published in: oDRKevlar Kuchma and the bullet of justiceGeorgii Gongadze, inconvenient Ukrainian journalist, died in horrible circumstance nearly 11 years ago. His...
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Published in: oDRMightiest for the mightiest: “The Net Delusion”In “The Net Delusion”, Evgeny Morozov vents frustration at what he calls “cyber utopianism” in Western foreign...
