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Published in: oDRThe rise and fall of Mikhail KhodorkovskyDoes a personal vendetta lie behind the imprisonment of Russia’s once-richest oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Was...
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Published in: oDRKafka’s Castle is collapsingYou can’t reason with the absurd, as IKEA found when it tried to build a model business in Russia. Institutional...
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Published in: openSecurity'Red Shirts' continue symbolic blood protest in Bangkok‘Red Shirts’ continue symbolic blood protest in Bangkok. Israel lifts West Bank closure. North Korea has 1,000...
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Published in: oDRArthur Koestler: 20th century manArthur Koestler, whose turbulent life charts the intellectual history of the 20thc in the West, has finally found a...
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Published in: oDRIs Russia’s judicial system reformable?In this interview for oDRussia, Prof.Alena Ledeneva talks to Oliver Carroll about the prospects for judicial reform...
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Published in: oDRTackling Russia’s legal nihilismOlga Kudeshkina made headlines in 2004 as the first Russian judge to flag up political interference in the judicial...
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Published in: oDRGrozny: Rebuilt, Fearful and (Almost) Forgotten by the West
Downtown Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, is ablaze with lights and full of chic shops now. But the paralysing fear...
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Published in: oDRDedovshchina: bullying in the Russian Army
While bullying (see our Soldier’s Tales) is common to all armies, the aberration that is dedovshchina in Russia’s...
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Published in: oDRA Soldier's Tale 9: changed, but not utterly dehumanised
In his final letter home from the army our conscript Tolya “finds” a mobile phone, is pursued by a mad officer and...
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Published in: oDRWomen’s day makes a lot of cents
On Women’s Day in Russia you really get to see what your price tag is
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Published in: oDROlympean blow at the Kremlin
Russian national pride has been badly dented by poor performance at the winter Olympics. It is being widely read as...
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Published in: oDRPartition Ukraine? I think not
It is irresponsible to fan the flames of partition as Ethan Burger does in his openDemocracy article ”Could...
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Published in: openSecurityViolence and uncertainty underscore Iraqi elections
Insurgents strike polling stations as Iraq votes for its new government. Turkey withdraws its ambassador to the US...
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Published in: oDRSo what do Russia’s people think?
In the first of his regular monthly reports for odRussia, Alexei Levinson of Russia’s prestigious Levada Centre...
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Published in: oDRStepan Bandera: a divisive national iconViktor Yushchenko has left his successor a ticking time bomb. His name is Stepan Bandera. Should Yanukovych strip...
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Published in: oDRLife and death of an independent newspaper in OryolIn 2004, some local journalists in Oryol founded an independent newspaper ‘for those who want the truth’. Although...
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Published in: oDRSaving the Amur tigerWith the Amur tiger population facing extinction, organisations from Russia and abroad have been working to save...
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Published in: HomeNetanyahu and the sanctioning of Iran
Israel’s attempt to rally support for energy sanctions against Iran look like failing, for good reason. They would...
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Published in: oDRDrug crisis on Russia’s bordersRussia’s drugs problem has reached crisis point in Orenburg Region. It borders on Central Asia and is used as a...
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Published in: oDRA Soldier’s Tale 8: violence is no joke
Our conscript Tolya continues his study of violence in his airborne division of the Russian army
