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Published in: oDRA house in the countryWith Russia’s housing stock in trouble, many people struggle to find a suitable home. For the people of Koltyshevo...
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s left: between a swamp and a hard placeWith a new-found reputation for radicalism, Ukrainian politics is in flux. The left, however, are nowhere to be seen.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Magna Carta for learning disabled people800 years of Magna Carta but learning disabled people remain 'villeins', denied rights against arbitrary power. What...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow should we remember Waterloo?Are anniversaries of historic events an occasion for serious assessment or simply a nostalgic indulgence that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBook review: Enemy on the EuphratesIan Rutledge’s book, Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914–1921...
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Published in: oDRNorth Ossetia is rethinking its role as Russia's ‘outpost’ in the CaucasusFrom ‘outpost’ to ‘outpostism’ and then to ‘outposter’, North Ossetians are feeling increasingly alienated from the...
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Published in: oDRAnarchism, Russian-styleThe village of Kolionovo has a reputation for independent mindedness and upsetting the authorities. Now they’ve...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMagna Carta 800th anniversary: three contrasting videosA message to England from America's Black Lives Matter, A talk under the oldest Yew in England, and might says it is right
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMelvyn Bragg versus Anthony Barnett on the Magna Carta continuedA lively exchange over Magna Carta, Bragg's series of programmes on it, and Barnett's criticisms of those programmes.
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Published in: oDRRemembering BudyonnovskI was in Budyonnovsk on 14 June 1995, when Chechen separatists raided the town and took hostages, killing 129....
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Published in: openDemocracyUK800 years since the Magna Carta: Remembering the British struggle for ethnic minority rightsAs we approach the 800th aniversary of Magna Carta, let us recall other important anniversaries which mark the...
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Published in: oDRThe uses and abuses of history
History is nowadays not only written by the victors, but by anybody who wants to use history for their own ends.
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Published in: oDRSamizdat in SamaraValery Pavlukevich, who recently passed away, was a regular contributor to oDR. In his last appearance on these...
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Published in: oDRA dissident’s taleOne of the grey cardinals of modern Russian politics, Gleb Pavlovsky talks dissent, history and politics in the...
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Published in: oDRGeorgian fiction – in translation at lastAt last, we can read what we have been missing – a literature as unpredictable as Georgian politics.
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Published in: oDRTransnistria: West Berlin of the post-Soviet worldHow to play hardball: Ukraine's parliament has revoked the agreement between Russia and Ukraine on the movement of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRe-imagining EnglandOriginally delivered as a public lecture at the University of Winchester on Thursday 9th October, 2014, John Denham...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy the British elite loves WaterlooFor the British ruling class, June 18, 1815 was a high point: most battles since have been disastrous.
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Published in: oDRHow to bid goodbye to Lenin in UkraineWhen talking about present day Ukraine and its new 'historical' laws, we need to think beyond ‘identity’ and ‘history’.
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Published in: oDRHappy Independence Day, Georgia!Since 1991, Georgia has celebrated Independence Day annually on 26 May. But this national holiday only exposes the...
