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Published in: oDRBook review: Mikhail Elizarov, ‘The Librarian’Mikhail Elizarov has written a highly imaginative satire on the dichotomy in the post-Soviet Russian psyche,...
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Published in: oDRBelarus has an identity crisisAfter two decades of russification, the Belarusian government is rethinking its identity politics.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMagna Carta and British socialism’s struggle for freedom in late Victorian and Edwardian BritainThe socialist and labour movements of Britain at the turn of the 20th century saw Magna Carta as an important symbol...
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Published in: oDRBook review: Hamid Ismailov ‘The Underground’
In The Underground, like his mixed-race hero, Hamid Ismailov is looking, above and below ground, for the answer to...
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Published in: oDRVictory Day in KyivUkraine has a new holiday – 8 May, Day of Remembrance – and a new symbol, the poppy. But 9 May remains, as a...
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Published in: oDRBook review: Rajan Menon and Eugene B. Rumer, ‘Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post–Cold War Order’
Truth may well be the first victim of war, and fair-minded and dispassionate accounts of events in Ukraine are rare.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAt Blackstone Edge: a People's Charter for 2015?Following in the footsteps of the original Chartists at Blackstone Edge, Paul Salveson proposes a People's Charter...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe British syndrome: an abdication of responsibilityThere are glaring absences at the heart of the UK elections contest. The new preface to his ‘Essay on Britain, now’...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Great Charter of LibertiesLooking at the distance between the Westminster parliamentary system and those to whom elected representatives are...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAssembling for democracy: part 2, the Chartists and usDemocracy arrived in the UK thanks to popular movements which pressured a reluctant Parliament into democratic...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWanted: A Magna Carta for the 21st Century
To protect and renew the rule of law we need to re-imagine our democracy. This Spring's Assemblies for Democracy...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAssembling for democracy: part 1, learning from the Blanketeers
As Assemblies for Democracy prepare to meet this Spring in London, Manchester and Glasgow, it is time to look again...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHomo liber, homo idioticusWhat can a document sorting out ruling class differences 800 years ago be used for? David Carpenter’s Magna Carta...
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Published in: oDRHow well does Russia speak the language of international law?
The language of international law has become another battleground between Russia and the West.
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Published in: oDRIn Auschwitz, Poland has outmanoeuvred RussiaThis year, the Poles were determined not to invite the Russians to Auschwitz. And they succeeded.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMagna Carta can still challenge the orthodoxy and help resolve today’s democratic difficultiesWhat influence does Magna Carta, signed 800 years ago at Runnymede by King John, continue to have over UK democracy...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMagna Carta: what prospects for a Precariat Charter?The events surrounding the signing of Magna Carta 800 years ago may sound more familiar to readers than they might expect...
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Published in: oDRWhy does Russia have so many plane crashes?Russian officials apparently don’t care about their country’s shocking air safety record.
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Published in: oDRThe Crimean ‘question’There are more questions than answers to the Crimean ‘question’.
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Published in: oDRComrade Stalin’s secret prisonSpecial Facility No.110 – Stalin’s secret prison – wasn’t in remote Siberia, it was just outside Moscow. на русском языке
