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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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Published in: oDRA national museum to the victims of Stalinist repression: words not deeds?President Medvedev may have declared his support for a museum complex outside St Petersburg in memory of Soviet...
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Published in: oDRTowards the Rehabilitation of Law: interview with Bill BowringBill Bowring is well known to anybody interested in international law, and especially in human rights in Russia....
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Published in: oDRKhodorkovsky trial: a test for the presidentThe sacking of Moscow mayor Luzhkov and the continuing debacle of Khodorkovsky's second trial could be seen as tests...
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Published in: oDRDaring to speak out in BelarusA chilling account of brave journalists in Lukashenka’s Belarus, so many of whom die in unexplained circumstances....
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s constitutional debate: finding the way forwardA vital national debate about constitutional reform is under way in Ukraine. But the debate often takes no account...
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Published in: oDRSochi: a city with no mosqueIn 2014 Russia will host the Winter Olympics in Sochi, once upon a time the capital of independent Circassia. The...
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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: Live discussionsWhy do Russians support the war?
