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Published in: HomeConflict in Tajikistan – not really about radical IslamFor almost a month, an armed conflict has been raging in the mountains of the Kamarob gorge between the forces of...
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Published in: oDRSergei Magnitsky: a death that failed to dieWhen Sergei Magnitsky died in police custody last November, few believed it would lead to anything more than a...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s response to the EU’s human rights policyIn this second part of her review of the effectiveness of the EU’s human rights policy, Eleanor Bindman looks at the...
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Published in: oDRThe EU’s human rights policy in Russia: more than rhetoric?Are the EU’s attempts to promote human rights in Russia capable of going beyond mere rhetoric, asks Eleanor Bindman?...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: don’t ask who killed Georgiy GongadzeTen years ago Ukrainian investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze was murdered. Various officials were named as...
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Published in: 50.50Of fundamentalisms, secular and otherwiseEngaging religious communities is a way forward for promoting democracy, human rights, and religious freedom around...
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Published in: oDRChechnya: choked by headscarves
In Chechnya there is official support for attacks on women when they are considered to have ‘flouted’ Islamic rules...
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Published in: oDRLatest on Ukraine’s history wars: Orange fighter downThe recent arrest of Ukrainian museum director Ruslan Zabily provoked an outcry. Did he actually leak state secrets...
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Published in: oDRYaroslau Romanchuk: my vision of a post-Lukashenka BelarusNext year's presidential elections offer a real opportunity of disposing a tired, weakened and unpopular Lukashenka,...
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Published in: oDRA prognosis for Ukraine's ebbing democracySix months into office, Yanukovych has moved swiftly to strengthen government. Indications are mounting that his...
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Published in: oDRKaliningrad's Day of AngerSome weeks ago Kaliningrad achieved a first in Russia by getting its governor Georgy Boos fired by the Kremlin. On...
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Published in: oDRThe Poet and the Tsar
When Putin sat down to tea with artists and musicians before a charity concert last month, he could not have...
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Published in: oDRWhy the FSB is not the KGB!Last month amendments were passed to the law codifying the FSB’s surveillance of those citizens deemed to be threats...
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Published in: oDRA thorn in the side of Georgia’s Rose RevolutionVakhtang Komakhidze was an investigative journalist in Georgia with a nose for a story and a record of annoying the...
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Published in: openSecurityLawfair
Court scrutiny of the British security services is to be welcomed; we can't debate properly our security needs...
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Published in: oDRWhat is Strategy 31?
For the last 12 months Russian cities have witnessed regular demonstrations to protest restrictions on the right to...
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Published in: oDRSoviet anti-religion has returned, claim Europe's last surviving pagansIn their remote forest republic 400 miles east of the Moscow, the pagan Mari people are once again being harassed by...
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Published in: Home14 Shocking Facts That Prove the US Criminal Justice System Is Racist
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans...
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Published in: oDRIgor Sutyagin and the price of freedomThe imprisonment of military researcher Igor Sutyagin for alleged espionage has long troubled Russian human rights...
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Published in: oDRGastarbeiters in kino: Russia's invisible class gets its big break
At the recent Kinotavr film festival — "Russia's Cannes" — the main competition featured no less than three films...
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