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Published in: oDRDecapitated dogs and burning bureaus: the year Kazakhstan did democracyKazakhstan’s 2010 chairmanship of the OSCE has not passed without controversy. Reforms promised at the beginning of...
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Published in: oDRBelarus election: probably no change at the topIs the December presidential election going to be more of the same? Lukashenka has been president for 16 years, but...
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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: HomeBurma’s elections: towards realistic hope
The traces of optimism that had surrounded Burma’s first notionally democratic experience for two decades vanish on...
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Published in: HomeEthiopia: the aid-politics trap
The Ethiopian government’s political use of international humanitarian aid is a test of donors’ commitment to...
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Published in: HomeParallel worlds: how connected Russians now live without the stateRussia’s summer of the wildfires brought about a change in society, says Andrei Loshak. Previously the only possible...
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Published in: HomeCivil resistance and the language of power
“If you want to build a ship, don’t gather your people and ask them to provide wood, prepare tools, assign tasks....
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Published in: 50.50Human rights, fundamentalism, power and prejudice
International human rights law is not a sufficient basis for responding to religious fundamentalism. Fundamentalisms...
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Published in: oDRA life in free fall: a Russian drug addict's story (1)Irina Teplinskaya was born with every advantage. But when she started taking drugs, there was no effective help to...
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Published in: oDRFreedom of expression in Ukraine: a disappearing commodity?
Subsidised articles and broadcasts spin the official line and the erosion of media freedom is gathering speed in...
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Published in: oDRA life in free fall: a Russian drug addict's story (2)In Russia drug addicts are seen as scum: the sooner they die, the better. In this second part of her story Irina...
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Published in: HomeRepression’s paradox in China
From the authoritarian’s perspective, internal dissidents are easy to deal with – put them in jail, have them...
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Published in: HomeThe Anishinabe and an unsung nonviolent victory in late twentieth-century WisconsinIn the wake of the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, many Native Americans adopted...
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Published in: HomeUpsurge in repression challenges nonviolent resistance in Western SaharaSahrawis have engaged in protests, strikes, cultural celebrations, and other forms of civil resistance focused on...
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Published in: HomePeople power and the new global fermentPeople power does not lend itself to the geo-strategic interests of empires or warlords, since it is based on...
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Published in: oDRTime for the human approachDmitry Medvedev’s proposal for a new post-cold war security order offers a significant opportunity for the world....
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Published in: oDRSticks and stones: the blogs of Oleg KashinOleg Kashin, a journalist for Kommersant newspaper, was brutally beaten in Moscow last weekend. Unknown assailants...
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Published in: oDROleg Kashin: words that crippleLast week in Moscow the journalist Oleg Kashin was thrashed to within an inch of his life. President Medvedev has...
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Published in: HomeWhy Geert Wilders is not Liu XiaoboCas Mudde was quite right to point out recently how liberal arguments are being used in the interests of illiberal...
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