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Published in: oDRWindow weapons: forgotten Soviet war postersHidden from view for decades, two large caches of Soviet wartime posters have recently emerged from the archives of...
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Published in: oDRStar of David vs Ukrainian Trident: a fake conflict
Hardline pro-Soviet provocateurs are exploiting Ukraine's dark history of violence against Jews to depict the...
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Published in: oDRThe living legacy of Russia’s slaveryRussian society has never learnt what it is to feel responsibility for anything. Serfdom was abolished 150 years...
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Published in: oDRThe voice of experience: Mintimer Shaimiyev in conversationMintimer Shaimiyev served in the government of Tatarstan during Soviet times (1969-91) and was subsequently...
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Published in: oDRThe dog days of the Soviet Union (3): the plot failsThe 1991 coup attempt completely disintegrates with the tragic deaths of three young men and the continuing...
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Published in: oDRThe dog days of the Soviet Union (2): the plot thickensThe (unsuccessful) coup d’état in August 1991 eventually brought about the end of the USSR. As British Ambassador,...
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Published in: oDRThe dog days of the Soviet Union: the coupThe (unsuccessful) coup d’état in August 1991 eventually brought about the end of the USSR. Rodric Braithwaite was...
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Published in: oDROn the eve of collapse: encounters in a changing RussiaNext week marks the twentieth anniversary of the August 1991 coup attempt. While this proved a dramatic final nail...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s new saints and the challenges of memoryThe Soviet-era repression of Christian clerics has led to the posthumous recognition of many new Orthodox saints....
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Published in: oDRSpringtime for Lukashenka?Effective opposition in Belarus has traditionally been limited by a limited sense of nationhood, a deeply controlled...
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Published in: oDRRussia's WWII: still too many taboos?For most of the USSR, WWII started on 22 June 1941. Exactly 70 years have passed since then, but there are still...
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Published in: oDRForbidden art: an oasis in the desertA recent documentary, “The Desert of Forbidden Art”, tells of a cultural and social phenomenon hidden in the deserts...
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Published in: oDRThe Great Terror’s long shadowDuring the perestroika years there was much talk in Russia of the need for an act of repentance to assist people to...
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Published in: oDROsh: one year onBefore the interethnic violence of last June, Osh was a remarkable meeting point of Uzbek and Kyrgyz cultures. That...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s queer democratisationLGBT people in Russia face a daily battle with homophobia and discrimination, and the decision to ban tomorrow's Gay...
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Published in: oDRTatarstan: religious coexistence too important to failChristians, Jews and Muslims have lived side by side for generations in Tatarstan. The Soviet period cut a swathe...
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Published in: oDRWTO membership: confused by the double-headed eagleRussia has taken seventeen years of WTO negotiations to get to a stage that most candidate countries reach after...
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Published in: oDRGleb Pavlovsky: the final actRussian “political technologist” Gleb Pavlovsky is considered a master of political intrigue and backstage games,...
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Published in: oDRHalf a victory: the campaign to free Soviet JewsThe campaign to give Soviet Jews the right to leave their country brought two diasporas and a world superpower...
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Published in: oDRThe Russians in Afghanistan: part IIIn the second part of exclusive extracts from "Afgantsy", Rodric Braithwaite focuses on the soldiers who served in...
