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Published in: oDRThe Russians in Afghanistan: part IThe Russian experience in Afghanistan is not a simple story. Far from being the imperialist expansion it is...
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Published in: oDRThe last prisonerPavel Galitsky spent fifteen years in the brutal labour camps of Kolyma, Siberia. Against the odds, the 100-year old...
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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: oDRUkraine: a crisis of self-identityUkrainian identity has historically been defined in opposition to Russia, but an anti-Russian agenda is unable to...
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Published in: oDRBelarus: a European country with a European futureDespite its position out on Europe’s eastern flank, Belarus has historically and culturally been at the heart of...
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Published in: oDRThe true Andropov: a response to Andrei KonchalovskyIn the opinion of film director Andrei Konchalovsky the true herald of liberal reform in the Soviet Union was Yury...
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Published in: oDRWikileaks, South Ossetia and the Russian "reset"Wikileaks has finally settled the controversy over who attacked whom first in the Russo-Georgian war of August 2008,...
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Published in: oDRThe Warsaw Pact: twenty years onFor over 30 years the Warsaw Pact was a threatening presence on the European political scene, but on 31 March 1991...
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Published in: oDRGorbachev: the wrong man for Andropov’s reformsGorbachev is hailed for doing away with Soviet totalitarianism, yet his predecessor Andropov was the man actually...
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Published in: oDRLoss of Chechnya: the case for the defenceChechnya’s ex-foreign minister Ilyas Akhmadov has published a book chronicling the loss of his republic to Russia....
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Published in: oDRPioneers, Lenin and the gingerbread men: letter from OrenburgOver the last 20 years the teaching of history has changed dramatically in Russia. Today’s children seem not to know...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEmpires Apart: America and Russia from the Vikings to IraqAs events in North Africa and the Middle East are daily displaying, America’s global influence is rapidly waning....
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Published in: oDRGorbachev: history will be a fairer judgeMany great statesmen have shaped the course of recent history: Churchill, de Gaulle, Thatcher, Kohl, Reagan, Havel...
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Published in: oDRAwkward histories: the HolocaustWhether in Russia or beyond, moves to rewrite awkward histories are always done with evil intent. When it is done in...
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Published in: oDR"Russia cannot go on like this”On Friday, prominent Russians of varied political hue presented a daring open letter to President Medvedev. In the...
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Published in: oDRYeltsin’s complicated legacy in the CaucasusBoris Yeltsin inherited many problems which he had to try and address while at the same time establishing the new...
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Published in: oDRVoina: artists at warIn October, two members of the Voina art collective were imprisoned for overturning police cars in provocative...
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Published in: HomeEgypt, and the thirty years of solitude
The epic events in the Arab world’s heartland are also a lesson in the loneliness of power, says Goran Fejic.
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Published in: oDRUkrainian nationalism: are Russian strategies at work?President Yanukovych has awakened the spirit of nationalism in Ukraine, writes Roman Kabachiy. In all probability,...
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Published in: oDRMemory incompatible: the Archangelsk affair continuesWhen a professor and police colonel were arrested and charged for printing a book in memory of the victims of...
