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Published in: oDRThe tragedy of Russia's abandoned wooden churchesRussia’s wooden architecture, especially its churches, was hardly a priority during Soviet times and now many of the...
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Published in: oDRFishing: Russia’s other civil battlefrontThe recent wave of demonstrations against election fraud across Russia were preceded in the spring and autumn by...
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Published in: oDRIn the backyard of Russia’s oil paradisePavlovo village was once a quiet backwater in the forest-steppe of Perm Region. In 1997, however, ecological...
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Published in: oDRIn the land of the forests: dispatch from PermThe Perm region once boasted well-managed forests, protected and processed for the common good. Today those forests...
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Published in: oDRChernobyl: the first monthTwenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, Barys Piatrovich recalls the tension of unknowing that gripped him...
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Published in: oDRAlaska-Chukotka: when cousins reuniteSoviet times were hard for the indigenous people of the Russian Far East, but perestroika allowed them to reunite...
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Published in: oDRBP, Rosneft and Russia's open secretsBusiness is rarely just business in Russia, and the recent deal between Rosneft and BP is surely a case in point,...
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Published in: oDRWith friends in high places, is there hope for the tigers?Where the world's tiger population once numbered 100,000, it now stands at 3,500, with several species facing...
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Published in: oDRThe Battle for Khimki ForestThe plan to construct a section of the new Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway through the legally-protected Khimki Forest...
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Published in: oDRLaid low by the heatThe Russian heat wave has been going on for weeks. From her dacha Elena Strelnikova gives a wry account of officials...
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Published in: oDRDreaming of the sea, or a holiday in MoynaqDaniel Metcalfe's book ‘Out of Steppe’ describes his journey through Central Asia. In this excerpt he describes the...
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Published in: oDRRussia burns: an updateLack of personnel and organizational incompetence have seriously hampered the Russian response to forest fires,...
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Published in: oDRSaving the Amur tigerWith the Amur tiger population facing extinction, organisations from Russia and abroad have been working to save...
