“If you want to build a ship, don’t gather your people and ask them to provide wood, prepare tools, assign tasks....

International human rights law is not a sufficient basis for responding to religious fundamentalism. Fundamentalisms...

Irina Teplinskaya was born with every advantage. But when she started taking drugs, there was no effective help to...

Subsidised articles and broadcasts spin the official line and the erosion of media freedom is gathering speed in...

In Russia drug addicts are seen as scum: the sooner they die, the better. In this second part of her story Irina...

From the authoritarian’s perspective, internal dissidents are easy to deal with – put them in jail, have them...

In the wake of the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, many Native Americans adopted...

Sahrawis have engaged in protests, strikes, cultural celebrations, and other forms of civil resistance focused on...

People power does not lend itself to the geo-strategic interests of empires or warlords, since it is based on...

Dmitry Medvedev’s proposal for a new post-cold war security order offers a significant opportunity for the world....

Oleg Kashin, a journalist for Kommersant newspaper, was brutally beaten in Moscow last weekend. Unknown assailants...

Last week in Moscow the journalist Oleg Kashin was thrashed to within an inch of his life. President Medvedev has...

Cas Mudde was quite right to point out recently how liberal arguments are being used in the interests of illiberal...

President Medvedev may have declared his support for a museum complex outside St Petersburg in memory of Soviet...

Bill Bowring is well known to anybody interested in international law, and especially in human rights in Russia....

The sacking of Moscow mayor Luzhkov and the continuing debacle of Khodorkovsky's second trial could be seen as tests...

A chilling account of brave journalists in Lukashenka’s Belarus, so many of whom die in unexplained circumstances....

A vital national debate about constitutional reform is under way in Ukraine. But the debate often takes no account...

In 2014 Russia will host the Winter Olympics in Sochi, once upon a time the capital of independent Circassia. The...