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Published in: oDRWinter Storm in Tatarstan
Jobs are scarce, pension rises mediocre and the local authorities have even taken away the Christmas trees. But...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTony Blair and the imperial temptation in Britain and America
Ahead of Blair's testimony on the Iraq war, it is worth considering a recent exchange in the American blogosphere...
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Published in: openSecuritySri Lankan president re-elected
Mahinda Rajapakse claims Sri Lanka election victory. North and South Korea trade fire. Taliban moderates taken off...
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Published in: openIndiaEurope's bitter pill for India will cost lives
The EU's trade negotiations with India bring back memories of colonial exploitation
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPublic finances and personal freedoms
Public authorities must respect human rights irrespective of the state of their balance sheets, writes John Wooding
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Published in: openEconomyZadek in Davos
We've survived the economic crisis, but global governance failed. Davos 2010 should be about fixing it. Are we ready...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKScotland in cyberspace: new media, blogs and public conversation
Gerry Hassan examines the Scottish blogosphere
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Published in: oDRA Soldier’s Tale (4): the army paradox
Letters are a life-line for Tolya. The army’s a mysterious entity, unknowable by anyone outside it, the conscript...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe don't live in a police state, but we are going to be watched by aerial drones
Extraordinary plans by police in the UK to use unmanned spy drones to monitor antisocial motorists, protesters,...
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Published in: openSecurityThe politics of poppy day
Following the threatened demonstration of Islam4UK in Wootton Bassett, Lucy Noakes explores the fraught history of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Hatfield House Mystery - Is a pan-unionist alliance on the cards?
It has been a strange month in the politics of Northern Ireland, and last week was no exception
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Published in: openSecurityHaiti to transfer 400,000 homeless out of the capital
Haiti announces that 400,000 people made homeless in last week’s earthquake are to be relocated outside the capital...
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Published in: HomeA Social Democrat wins in Croatia – and the Balkans move forward
Ivo Josipović, the professor-composer who has just won the Croatian presidential election, brings real hope to the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTowards a national civic service?
Andy Mycock on ideas for a British civic service programme
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Published in: oDRRussia's elite will grow up! (2)
In the second part of this important interview with polit.ru’s Boris Dolgin, veteran foreign affairs analyst Dmitry...
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Published in: oDRPost-Soviet integration: CST, CSTO, CRRF etc (2)
There have been many attempts at building new structures to replace the Soviet Union, since it fell 10 years ago....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKVincent Cable on the merits of Scottish independence
Vincent Cable's forgotten support for Scottish independence, and Gordon Brown's forgotten consideration of 'English...
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Published in: HomeUncharismatic Croat wins presidency; Balkan progress
Ivo Josipović, the professor-composer who has just won the Croatian presidential election, brings real hope to the...