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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: 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: oDROutcasts — inmates of the Black EagleIn Stalin’s time there were nearly a hundred GULag camps in Ivdel. Today, the maximum security penal colony FBU-IK...
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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: 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: oDRGreed, corruption and impotence: Samara battles for its architectureA city with a grand architectural heritage, Samara is today under threat, pincered by the greed of corrupt...
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Published in: oDRTricky business in Abkhazia
Since Abkhazia declared its independence from Georgia in 2008, Russian money has been pouring in. But when it comes...
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Published in: oDROryol: when the ‘new nobility’ turned terroristThe sleepy city of Oryol has erupted in terrorism. Investigations revealed how frustration at the state of Russia...
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Published in: openSecurityNorth Ossetia suicide bombing kills eighteen
A suicide bombing in the restless north caucasian province of North Ossetia kills at least 18 people. A protest in...
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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: 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: oDRKhodorkovsky trial: a regime in the dockThe accusations against Khodorkovsky have collapsed now that two senior establishment figures have testified. He may...
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Published in: oDRAnimals in the CourtroomEx-Yukos bosses Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev stand accused of a crime that even prosecutors are finding...
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Published in: oDRChildren in care: the Russian orphan industry
For those in Russia with an interest in preserving the status quo, youth justice is a Western invention with no...
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Published in: oDRFighting for Magnitsky: an interview with Jamison Firestone (part 1)Six months on from the controversial prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Oliver Carroll spoke to key witness...
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Published in: oDRPrison as a death sentenceThe death in custody of Sergei Magnitsky in November shocked the world and mobilised President Medvedev into a...
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Published in: oDRThe rise and fall of Mikhail KhodorkovskyDoes a personal vendetta lie behind the imprisonment of Russia’s once-richest oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Was...
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Published in: oDRIs Russia’s judicial system reformable?In this interview for oDRussia, Prof.Alena Ledeneva talks to Oliver Carroll about the prospects for judicial reform...
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Published in: oDRTackling Russia’s legal nihilismOlga Kudeshkina made headlines in 2004 as the first Russian judge to flag up political interference in the judicial...
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Published in: oDRGrozny: Rebuilt, Fearful and (Almost) Forgotten by the West
Downtown Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, is ablaze with lights and full of chic shops now. But the paralysing fear...
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