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Published in: oDRRussia's fleet in Crimea: what's the real deal?President Yanukovich’s unexpected extension of the lease on Russia’s fleet in Crimea has Ukraine in an uproar. No...
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Published in: openSecurityObama's plan for Iran and Chinese resistanceIran's fate rests on US relations with an emerging Chinese-Russian axis
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Published in: oDRCentral Asia - the smouldering volcano
As the recent popular violence in Kyrgyzstan reminded us, Central Asia is strategically vital. The West needs to...
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Published in: oDRWhat's left of Orange Ukraine?Though political infighting continues to hinder reform, Ukraine’s new president is equally unlikely to drop the...
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Published in: oDRBreaking point: why the Kyrgyz lost their patienceKyrgyzstan is suffering from a crisis of governance, reports Madeleine Reeves. But an analysis of the problems that...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: what is to be done?
The ineptitude of policies championed by the USA is to blame for the political violence in Kyrgyzstan which...
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Published in: oDRRussia-Poland: a history too terribleThe plane crash at Smolensk which Poland’s president has provoked an outpouring of Russian sympathy, from Putin...
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Published in: oDRCould Abkhazia be smothered by its new best friend?Seventeen years after civil war, Abkhazia is finally recovering under Russian protection. But many inside the...
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Published in: oDRUkraine's political merry-go-round
The new Ukrainian government has turned out to be a rather ugly bunch: coarse, corrupt, opaque and inexperienced...
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Published in: oDRTipping the board in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan’s ex-president Bakiev had not delivered on his promise to Russia to close the American airbase at Manas,...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: fractured, but not broken
Kyrgyzstan’s government has fallen, its provisional rulers are untested, and there is as yet no sign of a lasting...
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Published in: oDRCentral Asia: new security challengesKyrgyzstan’s violence underscores the instability of those former Soviet governments which are burdened by...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: what will happen to the tulips?As another “colour revolution” is overthrown in Kyrgyzstan, Boris Dolgin reflects that it changed nothing. Will the...
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Published in: oDRForums and flame wars in GeorgiaDuring the war with Russia in 2008, Georgians turned to online media in a big way. But with Western funding...
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Published in: oDRCracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 3Henry Marsh, an English neurosurgeon, tells the story of his twenty-year friendship with Igor Kurilets, a young...
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Published in: oDRCracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 2Henry Marsh, an English neurosurgeon, tells the story of his twenty-year friendship with Igor Kurilets, a young...
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Published in: oDRCracking heads open in Ukraine: a neurosurgeon’s story. Part 1Henry Marsh, an English neurosurgeon, tells the story of his twenty-year friendship with Igor Kurilets, a young...
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Published in: HomeThe Prorizna Street rebellion
A spirited protest in central Kyiv embodies the ethos of a new, civic Ukraine whose people - despite their...
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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: oDRStepan Bandera: a divisive national iconViktor Yushchenko has left his successor a ticking time bomb. His name is Stepan Bandera. Should Yanukovych strip...
