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Published in: oDR"I'm no hero, but it's time to call a spade a spade" — ParfyonovOn Thursday evening, prominent TV journalist Leonid Parfyonov broke with the etiquette of live award ceremonies, and...
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Published in: oDRThe Crimean War: not the last crusadeWas the Crimean War really a crusade or was it motivated more by Russia’s need to have access to the Black Sea?...
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Published in: oDRElections in Kyrgyzstan: a step towards democracy?Will Kyrgyzstan’s progress towards democracy, initiated after the April Revolution, be undermined by victory of the...
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Published in: oDRRussia and Georgia: the Circassian questionA series of recent international conferences have pushed the Circassian question on to the international agenda....
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Published in: oDRA national museum to the victims of Stalinist repression: words not deeds?President Medvedev may have declared his support for a museum complex outside St Petersburg in memory of Soviet...
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Published in: oDRUpdate the software of the Russian soul?Government attempts to modernise Russia are doomed because the Russian mindset remains stuck in an unchanging...
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Published in: oDRLatest on Ukraine’s history wars: Orange fighter downThe recent arrest of Ukrainian museum director Ruslan Zabily provoked an outcry. Did he actually leak state secrets...
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Published in: oDRDown on the farm: a history lesson in KazanStalin’s collectivization of agriculture in the USSR in the 1930s led to famine, repression and widespread family...
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Published in: oDRWhen enemies are better than friendsRather than emphasising friends and allies, today's Russian leaders prefer to single out their enemies, writes...
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Published in: oDRDoes Russia need a memory law?
Russia’s Duma has been trying to draft a ‘memory law’, in order to protect the Soviet version of the events of World...
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Published in: oDRSkating on thin ice in SochiThe 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi threatens to be overshadowed by a centuries-old row between Russia and the...
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Published in: oDRCircassian Nationalism and the InternetCircassian communities are scattered throughout the North Caucasus and the diaspora is spread throughout the world....
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Published in: oDRUkraine's Stolen Memory
During Viktor Yushchenko’s five years in power, Ukraine did not start facing up to its totalitarian history. Since...
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Published in: oDRTeaching History in Orenburg
Against a backdrop of an ever increasing politization of the Soviet past, journalist Elena Strelnikova returned to...
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Published in: oDRAfter the plane crash: Russian attitudes to Katyn
The NKVD’s mass execution in 1940 of Polish officers in Katyn Forest has complicated the often tense relations...
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Published in: oDRParroting historyHistory teaching has fallen victim to politics in Russia. Educational standards are falling and children are not...
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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: oDRCharisma and complications: the legacy of Abkhazia’s founding fatherWith the death of Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazia’s first president, a period of post-Soviet upheaval passes further...
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Published in: oDRA Soldier's TaleopenDemocracy Russia now puts together in one document the 9 letters written by Tolya (probably not his real name),...
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Published in: oDRArthur Koestler: 20th century manArthur Koestler, whose turbulent life charts the intellectual history of the 20thc in the West, has finally found a...
