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Published in: 50.50The gender gap and the American presidential electionWill the gender gap that decisively helped Bill Clinton and Barack Obama win the presidency again? Only if women...
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Published in: oDRIs Russia’s protest movement a flash in the pan?Putin is back in power and the numbers of Russians actively protesting against the regime have dwindled. Six months...
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Published in: oDRBig business under threat in Putin’s Russia?A new president could be a new start and hope for the future, but Putin’s return to the presidency signals...
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Published in: oDRFootball & politics: the legacy of Euro 2012 in UkraineAhead of the Euro 2012 football championships, media attention on political scandal and excessive profiteering has...
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Published in: oDRRussia's search for an anti-corruption model – from Sweden to Singapore
Just about everyone in Russia - the Kremlin, the opposition and most Russians in the street – agrees that corruption...
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Published in: oDRRussian politics: is Kudrin the cure for Putin’s ‘tandem malaise’?Are we witnessing the death throes of Russia’s ruling tandem? Since last September, when their (apparently) joint...
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Published in: oDRCrisis planning: which way forward for Putin’s regime?The elections are over; the protests continue, though in muted form. Russia’s way forward is not solely a matter of...
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Published in: oDRHow Putin can become a moderniserA majority of Russians – and not all of them opponents of Putin – demand modernisation. Yet the predominance of the...
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Published in: HomeThe socio-economic foundations of Bahrain’s political crisis
A study of income inequality in Bahrain highlights the failure of the Government to extend its aid to those who need it most.
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Published in: oDRFlowers on a dung heap: markets, politicians and the demise of Russian rural lifeThe economic and political transformations of the 1990s onwards have allowed much of the Russian countryside to die...
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Published in: 50.50Development and religion: ambivalent policy, grounded practice
Development policy seems to swing between a Marmite-style love-it-or-hate-it approach to religion. Yet practice on...
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Published in: oDRIs Ukraine heading East?
On the eve of an EU-Ukraine summit on December 19, Ukraine’s relations with Brussels are deteriorating. EU officials...
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Published in: HomeChinese companies under scrutiny in Zimbabwe
Ten years into the Look East policy, Zimbabwe is showing itself to be a not-so-satisfied customer of Chinese investment.
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Published in: openEconomyThis crisis is no excuse for technocratic government
In the author's prescient May 2010 article there is the central observation that we are seeing a fundamental...
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Published in: oDRRussian economy: trying to please people doesn’t help20 years ago there was all to play for: the USSR was defunct and Russia was embarking on a bright future. But the...
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Published in: oDRPrivatisation, but no private propertyPrivatisation was one of the beacon words of Yeltsin’s presidency, but, with the possible exception of housing,...
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Published in: openSecurityArmed conflict, land grabs and big business: Colombia’s deadly pactThe recent assassination of Colombian marxist insurgent group leader Alfonso Cano has been hailed internationally as...
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Published in: oDRIs corruption in Russia's DNA?It is difficult to think back to a time when corruption was not endemic in Russia. It is now crippling the country,...
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Published in: oDRThe Russian banking system: between the market and the stateFor the last 20 years Russian attitudes to banks have been ambivalent. From no trust at all to feverish delight at...
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Published in: oDRRussian reforms, twenty years on
Dmitry Travin presents a new week-long series on openDemocracy Russia
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