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Published in: oDRRussia's senseless investigation into Baltic independence
In another manifestation of the absurd, Russia's latest investigation into the legality of Baltic independence uses...
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Published in: oDRSaakashvili is turning politics upside down in Ukraine
Down on the Black Sea, ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakasvhili is making waves as the new governor of Odessa. Is...
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Published in: oDRThe power of Electric Yerevan
Strong-arm tactics and cynical compromises are yet to send Yerevan's protesters home. Is this the beginning of the...
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Published in: oDRI was on a Russian nationalist hit list
In Moscow City Court, the suspected leader of a far-right terror group with links to the Kremlin stands accused of...
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s labour reforms threaten workers' rights
The oligarchs have joined forces to railroad a new labour code that strips Ukrainian workers of their already modest rights.
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Published in: oDRWriting poetry in Russia is a dangerous profession
Aleksandr Byvshev, a schoolteacher from Russia’s Oryol region, is on trial for writing a poem opposing the...
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Published in: oDRRequiem for EuroMaidan
As Ukraine turns into an oligarch republic, civil society has few chances left to make itself the true victor of EuroMaidan.
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Published in: oDRInterview with a murderer
There are currently 59,000 women in Russian penal establishments. For many of them prison is not so much a...
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s European integration
If the EU is serious about helping Ukraine, both parties should focus on the country’s most glaring problem, and the...
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Published in: oDRMoldova's ambiguous European integration
The EU may like to think of Moldova as its ‘star pupil’, but its unconditional support for successive corrupt...
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Published in: oDRWho killed Boris Nemtsov?
The murder of Boris Nemtsov tells us not that Putin is a strong leader, but rather one who has lost his grip.
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Published in: oDRDetaining the president’s daughter
A year on from her disappearance from public life, what does the treatment of Gulnara Karimova reveal about...
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Published in: oDRWhere has all the wildlife gone in Siberia?
Poaching is drastically reducing numbers of many wildlife species in Siberia, and government at national and...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s repressive monument to victims of political repression
The Russian state’s recognition of terror victims in marble and concrete is its own form of totalitarianism. на русском языке
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Published in: oDRHow well does Russia speak the language of international law?
The language of international law has become another battleground between Russia and the West.
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Published in: oDRRussian woman accused of treason for phoning Ukrainian embassy
A mother of seven is facing charges of treason in the Russian town of Vyazma. Her alleged crime? Phoning the...
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Published in: oDRRussian nationalism can be deadly
As the trial of an extreme Russian nationalist organisation continues in Moscow this month, the parents of one of...
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Published in: oDRFarewell to Florida
Richard Florida's 2002 book on the "creative class" has found an unexpectedly fervent following in Russia, but did...
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Published in: oDRTrial and error in the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic
Nine years after a series of coordinated attacks on government and military installations in and around Nalchik,...
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Published in: oDRComrade Stalin’s secret prison
Special Facility No.110 – Stalin’s secret prison – wasn’t in remote Siberia, it was just outside Moscow. на русском языке