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Published in: oDRWhen is an anniversary not an anniversary?Russia is gearing up for the centennial of its October Revolution, and Ireland has just commemorated the centenary...
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Published in: oDRBook review: Neil Kent’s “Crimea: a history”A new history of Crimea argues for the peninsula’s central importance to Europe — via Russia. The result is misleading.
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Published in: oDRFighting for recognition: Soviet-Afghan War veterans in TajikistanIn Tajikistan, veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War are fighting for recognition, but their government holds them at...
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Published in: oDRRussia, Inc.From “structural reforms” of the 2000s to austerity policies today, neoliberalism has been and remains an organic...
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Published in: oDRHow “Operation Liza” failedThe failure of a recent Russian propaganda campaign in Germany tells us that Kremlin strategists know nothing about...
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Published in: oDRReview: Arkady Ostrovsky’s ‘The Invention of Russia’This new history tells a compelling, if normative, story of how Russia’s journalists and entrepreneurs threw off...
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Published in: oDRAfter the ban: a short history of Ukraine’s Communist PartyYou can ban Ukraine’s communists, but you can’t beat them.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReturning nativeReturning to Wales, David Marquand finds that devolution has created a political community interestingly open to new...
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Published in: oDRBetween dialogue and violence: the North Caucasus's bloody legacyAfter Paris, we need to act against radicalisation. Russia's legacy in the North Caucasus tells us how not to. Русский
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Published in: oDRFor the Don Cossacks, Russia’s Civil War is not yet overThe commemoration of a massacre of Cossacks by the British Army in Austria 70 years ago has opened a can of worms in...
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Published in: oDRLiving in Islam: Russian Muslims tell their storiesTen Moscow Muslims speak of faith, joy and attitudes towards Islam in Russia today.
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Published in: oDRStalin's backWith new monuments and museums afoot, Russians are warming again to Stalin's legacy. But is there any communist...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAn Agreement of the Free People of England: or, the Ready and Easy Way to Party Like it's 1649The people of England need to discover their sovereignty and make a constitution of their own. Here are some ideas.
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Published in: oDRUmmah: Islam in the post-Soviet worldoDR introduces a new series devoted to reporting and comment on Islamic life in the post-Soviet space. Русский
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Published in: oDRThe Crimean blockade: how Ukraine is losing Crimea for the third timeRussia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 was not the first time that Ukraine lost the peninsula. In fact, Ukraine...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?No maps, no manuals: retrieving radical republicanism, restoring popular sovereigntyRepublicanism brings into sharp focus an articulation of common freedoms strived for under extremely varying...
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Published in: oDRAnarchism in Makhno’s homeland: adventures of the red-and-black flagAnarchism may be a popular political brand in Ukraine today, but it’s not anarchism as we know it. Русский
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSo, what was Magna Carta?This year is the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. But what exactly was Magna Carta?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEqual rights for all: the limits of Magna Carta and the 1965 Race Relations Act
The commemoration of Magna Carta should not be a complacent celebration, but an opportunity to explore what more we...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMagna Carta: a beggarly thing, a mess of pottage
If Magna Carta is the cornerstone of liberty, why did the Levellers, democratic radicals of the 17th century, reject...
