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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe BBC Strategy Review: The Citizens' Coalition for Public Service Broadcasting respondsThe Citizens' Campaign for Public Service Broadcasting gives its verdict on the BBC Strategy Review: its declared...
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Published in: oDRSkating on thin ice in SochiThe 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi threatens to be overshadowed by a centuries-old row between Russia and the...
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Published in: oDRLev Tolstoy: world literature’s first pop starRelief at being freed from the deadening Soviet tradition of grandiose literary anniversaries, and socialist...
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Published in: oDRThe house that Melnikov builtMoscow’s superb legacy of Constructivist architecture has suffered since Neo-Classicism became the official style in...
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Published in: 50.50Sterilized: against our will
"Unfortunately there was one sterilization form that I was not aware of and I had already signed it." HIV positive...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLong live history!
The new government wants to revive English history. The questions are how and with whom.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere is Facebook’s privacy taking its users?
With growing concerns over Facebook's casual attitude to the privacy of its users, can a new grassroots,...
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Published in: 50.50Amnesty: working against oblivion?
Human rights groups cannot tell the story of the times in which we live. There is a void, where there should be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDocumentary making and the principles of public service broadcasting
Informational and educational documentaries must remain a priority for public service broadcasting in the face of...
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Published in: HomeA tale of two women leadersWhat can we expect women to bring to leadership? And who best fulfils these expectations – celebrity Sarah Palin, or...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPublic service broadcasting and the public sphere: report and video from a City symposium
Guests at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University discuss the fate of public service...
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Published in: oDRCrimes in the CaucasusDocumenting a great historical tragedy unknown to most, Oliver Bullough's new book is a fascinating and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAgony of ITV's own goal on Contract Rights Renewal lingers on
Will a new, Tory Culture, Media and Sport minister bring the regulatory overhaul ITV craves
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUser generated content and public service broadcasting
A licence fee-generated BBC has a duty to promote user-generated content
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Published in: openEconomySaving philosophy from the suits
The long march of market mechanisms through Britain's cultural institutions has accelerated. Is there a...
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Published in: oDRSiberian Shamans Come in From the Cold (part 3)After decades of repression, Siberia’s shamans are re-emerging. Ken Hyder is a musician who performs with a Tuvan...
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Published in: Shine A LightSamaranch, Kissinger and the Coca Cola company: a relentless fascist’s curious date with democracyClare Sambrook recalls the day Juan Antonio Samaranch, the leader of the 'Olympic Movement' who died last month,...
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Published in: HomeAn east London election: politics and coercion
The dubious tactics used by some party campaigners in Britain’s general election need to be examined as part of a...
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Published in: oDRMayor Luzhkov and the reconstruction of MoscowOn 5th May the Moscow authorities approved a new General Plan described by its critics as “the death-knell” for the...
