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Published in: oDRStepford Wives in ChechnyaChechen women have to be very careful about what they wear because of Ramzan Kadyrov’s ‘virtue campaign.’
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Published in: oDRReporting on Russian televisionMost talk about censorship on Russian television misses the point. When it comes to reporting, loyalty takes precedence.
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Published in: oDRTeaching orthodoxy in Russian schoolsOrthodox ideology is being rushed into the Russian school curriculum – in the interests of nationalism.
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Published in: oDRBook review: Samuel Greene, 'Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia'
Russians pride themselves on their capacity for state-building, but their idea of the state is not one that the West...
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Published in: oDRThe ‘return’ of nuclear weapons
The current crisis unfolding in Ukraine has brought the issue of nuclear weapons back into sharp focus.
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Published in: oDRThe battle for the Siberian harvestPresident Putin’s special envoy to the Urals, recently praised the region’s farmers for their heroic efforts to save...
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Published in: oDRRussia's new media lawAmendments to Russia’s new media law limiting foreign ownership to 20% show there is no free market in the country.
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Published in: oDRThe split widens in the ruling family of UzbekistanHaving been accused of misappropriating hundreds of millions of dollars, Gulnara Karimova is now under house arrest...
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Published in: oDRRussian defence before Russian healthIn 2012, President Putin promised to increase the healthcare budget. Two years later, the Russian government is...
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Published in: oDRWhere now for Armenia’s opposition?Public protests are mounting in Armenia over economic and political issues. But where is the Armenian opposition in all this?
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Published in: oDRWhat are Russians celebrating when they celebrate National Unity Day?
Russians celebrate National Unity Day on 4 November, but the name masks Russian anxieties about disunity and disintegration.
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Published in: oDRBook review: Peter Pomerantsev, ‘Nothing is true and everything is possible’
Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible presents a Russia with no rules and no certainty in...
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Published in: oDRPutin's new foreign policy rulebookPutin’s speech to the Valdai Club on 24 October shows he no longer believes in the old international rules.
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Published in: oDRWhat is really going on with Russia's new internet laws
On paper, Russia’s new laws on data storage seem to make business impossible for big internet companies like Google,...
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Published in: oDRPost-election, Ukrainians and Russians face an uncertain futureUkraine’s snap parliamentary elections have once again proved that the mainstream of society rejects the far right –...
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Published in: oDRRussians are not bothered by Western sanctionsSanctions have had a limited effect on the Russian population whose support towards the government’s Ukrainian...
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Published in: oDRMoscow’s young Muslims might be tomorrow’s militantsA recent clash with the police is a sign of the alienation felt by some young men from Moscow’s Muslim community. на...
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Published in: oDRFor Generation P, Putin is RussiaPutin has successfully managed to persuade his fellow citizens that he and Russia are one and the same. на русском языке
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Published in: oDRAzerbaijan and the Ukraine crisisThe crisis in Ukraine put the Azerbaijani government in an uncomfortable position.
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Published in: oDRBook review: Zakhar Prilepin, 'Sankya'
A cult novel by one of Russia’s most provocative and original writers has just come out in English translation.
