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Published in: oDRWhy so secretive?The Russian authorities are keeping far too many secrets from citizens. Komanda-29 and its founder Ivan Pavlov are...
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Published in: oDRMeet Anatol Matasaru, Moldova’s one-man Pussy RiotFed up with Moldova’s corruption and inertia, this protest artist is searching for new limits in political art. He...
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Published in: oDRMoscow’s authoritarian futureRecent moves against Moscow’s street traders don’t only violate Russia’s Constitution and hurt the economy. They...
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Published in: oDRA law beyond improvementDefining “political activity” may seem like an academic exercise, but in Russia, it is an existential one.
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Published in: oDR“Two million soms and we’ll let you go”If you push hard enough you can get justice — even in Uzbekistan.
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Published in: oDRCan Georgia ditch its surveillance culture?Mikheil Saakashvili may have left his native Georgia for Odessa, but one particular legacy of his years in power is...
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Published in: oDRSearching for the ‘Armenian Lobby’Conspiracies keep the people pliant and rulers fearless. In Azerbaijan, all dissidents are considered to be agents...
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Published in: oDRWho are your comrades now?The Russian state wants payback for the mass protests of 2012. But the arrest of another political activist in...
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Published in: oDRThe red zoneRussia's prison system is dehumanising people. The recent death of an inmate in a southern Russian penal colony is...
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Published in: oDRSerial violations: finding new ways to limit freedom of association in RussiaThe first sentences under a new law limiting freedom of association in Russia are coming into effect. Their target?...
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Published in: oDRThe Samara Three: what we knowThree bloggers have been arrested in Samara, Russia on suspected extortion charges. The ripples from the arrest are...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFrom Beirut to Paris, we are all hypocrites and selective grieversIn legitimately condemning selective grief, Lebanon (and the world) forgets that it selectively grieves all the...
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Published in: oDRUnmasking Central Asia's neoliberal judgesDespite claims of impartiality, judges in Central Asia often incorporate neoliberal economic and moral values into...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s secret treason investigationsIn Russia, the number of state treason cases is rising. Secret service tactics mean we know less and less about who...
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Published in: oDRSOS from DagestanOne year since a young man was killed in a police station in this North Caucasus republic, the victim’s family is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAdministrative detention and Israel's moral imperativeA review of Israel’s detention policy reveals it to be outrageous, convoluted, and self-defeating.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKProtests in Calais: valuing human complexity in crisisThoughts on the UK media's representation of the refugee crisis, from a day of action and protest in Calais on...
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Published in: oDRIn Georgia, justice delayed is justice deniedGiorgi Ugulava, political ally of Mikheil Saakashvili and former mayor of Tbilisi, has gone behind bars. Behind the...
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Published in: oDROleg Sentsov and Aleksandr Kolchenko: prisoners of conscienceStatement on the sentencing of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and co-defendant Aleksandr Kolchenko.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow Israeli impunity threatens Palestinian childrenIsrael should ensure justice for the murders of Ali and Saad Dawabshe, but its policies must fundamentally change if...
