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Published in: oDRPolite people with gunsFor 20 years Russians saw Ukraine as a parody of Russia, because 'Ukraine isn't Russia.' Now, our neighbours are...
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Published in: oDRThe last camping groundRussia’s oil goliaths have been devastating vast areas of natural landscape, and indigenous people’s lives, in their...
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Published in: oDRThe challenges for Ukraine’s presidential electionOn Sunday 25 May, President Putin permitting, 36.5 million voters will go to the polls in Ukraine to vote for a...
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Published in: oDRCrime without punishmentThe Highway Code does little to protect Russian citizens, especially pedestrians. High-ranking officials or people...
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Published in: oDRIs Russia outgunning Ukraine in the ‘information war’?For both Moscow and Kyiv, TV is the key to winning the hearts and minds of Ukrainians. But who is winning the...
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Published in: oDRDagestan: Russia’s hottest spotAsked to name Russia’s most troublesome region, most people would plump for Chechnya. But its neighbour Dagestan is...
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Published in: oDRThe three ages of PutinismTwo years ago, on 4 March 2012, Russians went to the polls to elect a new president, and returned Vladimir Putin for...
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Published in: oDRNo real threat to Ukraine’s Russian speakers
What are the ‘legitimate interests’ justifying Putin’s intervention into Ukraine? The most frequently identified...
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Published in: oD BlogEnd of the road for populism in Ukraine
Ukrainians are having to pay a high price for the success of their revolution, and it is as yet by no means clear...
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Published in: oDRA response to Cas Mudde’s ‘A new (order) Ukraine’
Events in Ukraine have provoked an avalanche of media comment, much of which, though well-intentioned, is not...
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Published in: oDRTV Rain - the wrong questionA row over a viewer opinion poll has effectively silenced TV Rain, Russia’s most independent TV channel. A pity they...
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Published in: oDRThe myth of the black widowFears of terrorism surrounding the Sochi Olympics have seen much talk of ‘Black Widows’ and the 'Caucasus Emirate,'...
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Published in: oDRThe mistake that is SochiThe Russian Government has a lot riding on the Sochi Olympics – prestige, glory, credibility, and an enormous amount...
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Published in: oDRThe heavyweight guide to UkraineDon't know your Klitschko from your Titushki? Can’t remember which oligarch is which? What or who is a ‘Maidan?’...
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Published in: oDRThe face of a tyrantOn 16 January the Ukrainian parliament passed emergency amendments to a series of laws on the judiciary and the...
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Published in: oDRThe blank poster: Russia heading into 2014Experts agree modernisation and liberalisation present Russia's only chance of enjoying continued economic growth....
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Published in: oDRNailing things down…Pyotr Pavlensky is the performance artist who nailed his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square. Pained, the...
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Published in: oDRPublish and be decapitatedIn the West we talk metaphorically about ‘losing our heads;’ in Ukraine, it has been a state-ordained punishment....
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Published in: oDRFrom a #euromaidan in UkraineHow do we (and Ukrainians) make sense of what is happening in Ukraine? Is the hashtag #euromaidan of any help in...
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Published in: oDRGeorgia through a glass, darklySince the break-up of the USSR, the South Caucasus has trodden a chequered path, both political and economic. Is...
