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Published in: oDRChildren in care: the Russian orphan industryFor 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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Published in: oDRFleeced. A letter from the Russian provincesCorruption has always been part of Russian life, and the Oryol region today just offers a rather extreme example,...
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Published in: oDRThe psychiatrist as expert witness - between a rock and a hard place
The independence, or lack of it, of the Russian judiciary has been much discussed, but Emmanuil Gushansky makes an...
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Published in: oDRThe ones that lost: Russian cases rejected at the European Court
Landmark victories in defiance of the Russian government have made the European Court of Human Rights the most...
