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Published in: oDRThe high price of democracy in UkraineUkraine is almost bankrupt. The budget for 2015 is unrealistic. Root and branch reform has stalled. There is a war...
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Published in: oDRKakha Bendukidze and Georgia’s failed experimentKakha Bendukidze died in November 2014 at the age of 58. Bendukidze directed the whirlwind of economic reform that...
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Published in: oDRThe ‘Muslim radicalisation of Central Asia’ is a dangerous mythSecurity think-tanks and expert communities in the Western world are perpetuating the dangerous myth that Muslim...
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Published in: oDRThe kidnap trail to Central AsiaCentral Asian security services have been abducting their countries’ citizens from Russia to stand trial on...
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Published in: oDRRussian NGOs need to rethink their strategyRussia’s voluntary sector, faced with growing government interference, needs to be more open about its aims and...
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Published in: oDRReporting on Russian television
Most talk about censorship on Russian television misses the point. When it comes to reporting, loyalty takes precedence.
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Published in: oDRRussia's Trojan HorseIs the European far right really acting as Russia's Trojan Horse in the European Union?
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Published in: oDRGender equality is holding Belarus back
Belarus is slowly opening up to the idea of gender equality. But the conservative meaning attached to the concept is...
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Published in: oDRBook review: Samuel Greene, 'Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia'
Russians pride themselves on their capacity for state-building, but their idea of the state is not one that the West...
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Published in: oDRLetter from Tbilisi
Academic concepts about EU foreign policy and the European Neighbourhood Policy are not always enough to explain...
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Published in: oDRThe ‘return’ of nuclear weapons
The current crisis unfolding in Ukraine has brought the issue of nuclear weapons back into sharp focus.
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Published in: oDRGermany and the disinformation politics of the Ukraine crisis
Looking at both the historical and current pro-Putin segment of German public discussion, one can identify the...
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Published in: oDRWhere now for Armenia’s opposition?Public protests are mounting in Armenia over economic and political issues. But where is the Armenian opposition in all this?
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Published in: oDRIs Central Asia afraid of ISIS?The self-proclaimed ‘Islamic State’ has been seizing more and more territory in the Middle East, and now has its...
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Published in: oDR'I took no prisoners'In his own words, a Russian volunteer who signed up to fight in the Novorossiya militia in Eastern Ukraine. на русском языке
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Published in: oDRPutin's new foreign policy rulebookPutin’s speech to the Valdai Club on 24 October shows he no longer believes in the old international rules.
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Published in: oDRWhat does Russia really want with Abkhazia?Will the new treaty being discussed between Abkhazia and Russia provide a blueprint for cooperation or something...
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Published in: oDRPost-election, Ukrainians and Russians face an uncertain futureUkraine’s snap parliamentary elections have once again proved that the mainstream of society rejects the far right –...
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Published in: oDRRussians are not bothered by Western sanctionsSanctions have had a limited effect on the Russian population whose support towards the government’s Ukrainian...
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Published in: oDRPutin’s International BrigadesThe Donbas separatists have been fighting the Ukrainian army with the help of volunteers from all over the world –...
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