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Published in: oDRIn Kazakhstan, a New Year’s tragedy continues to echo far beyond its bordersFights on New Year’s Eve are all too common. But a brawl in Karaganda, Kazakhstan has stirred up public opinion both...
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s anti-torture programme needs serious reform if it is to be effectiveAccording to new research, Ukraine’s National Preventive Mechanism is not fulfilling its duties. RU
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s Communists were banned, or so we thoughtIn 2015, media reported that Ukraine’s Communist Party had been banned by court order. But thanks to continuing...
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Published in: oDRTowards a post-liberal research agenda in EurasiaWhy researchers need to move beyond liberal assumptions about authoritarianism in Central Asia.
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Published in: oDRGetting creative, getting political in BelarusUp against severe administrative restrictions, residents of the city of Brest have find creative ways to fight the...
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Published in: oDRWhy is the Moldovan government discriminating against the diaspora?In Moldova's upcoming elections, the oligarchs in power fear the opposition and its voters.
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Published in: oDRThe strange connections of Tashkent City’s “British investor”Questions emerge over a Scottish limited partnership linked to a major urban redevelopment project in Uzbekistan,...
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Published in: oDRMoscow, Kyiv, Constantinople: what happens after the Ukrainian Church crisis?As the dust begins to settle in the Orthodox Church split between Russia and Ukraine, it is Constantinople that...
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Published in: oDR“To be disillusioned is naive”: Nataliya Gumenyuk on pre-election UkraineFive years on from the height of EuroMaidan in Ukraine, we to talk to Nataliya Gumenyuk, head of Hromadske...
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Published in: oDRGrain truck drivers in south Russia wage war on corruptionA strike by Russian grain hauliers, demanding higher pay and an end to corruption, has gripped the south of the country. RU
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Published in: oDRDecriminalising extremism in CrimeaIn Russia, new legislation is designed to reduce the number of people facing criminal charges for reposting...
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Published in: oDRWas Symon Petliura “an antisemite who massacred Jews during a time of war”?100 years on from one of the bloodiest pogroms during the Russian civil war, a leading figure in Ukraine continues...
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Published in: oDRYoung disabled people in Kyrgyzstan find new goals and opportunitiesMore than 5,000 people with vision impairment live in Kyrgyzstan. I speak to Matluba Hakimova about independence,...
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Published in: oDRIn central Ukraine, a city’s future is overshadowed by a radioactive neighbourThe city of Kamianske, once the home of a Soviet-era uranium processing facility, must deal with the millions of...
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Published in: oDRChechnya LGBT crisis 2.0: what questions we need to be askingNew reports of mass arrests, torture and murder of LGBT people in Chechnya remind us that accountability is...
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Published in: oDRDid the FSB use a neo-Nazi agent provocateur in their case against Russian anti-fascists?After the first defendant in a high-profile terrorism investigation is sentenced, new evidence emerges that security...
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s invisible votersIn Ukraine, displaced persons from the Donetsk and Luhansk areas that are not under government control, as well as...
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Published in: oDRUzbekistan Ltd: private-public interests clash in flagship projectAs a major property development scheme gets under way in Tashkent, a data trail reveals a potential serious conflict...
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Published in: oDRUncovering Stalin’s terror in KyrgyzstanEighty years after Stalin’s Great Terror, the names of thousands of its victims in Kyrgyzstan have still not been...
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Published in: oDROut of season, out of pocket in Ukraine’s Kherson regionUkraine’s southern region of Kherson is known for its agricultural produce. But out of season, life is hard. RU
