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Published in: oDRIn Azerbaijan, a hunger strike is the only remaining hope for justiceMehman Huseynov, an Azeri blogger, is facing new fabricated charges in prison. But people inside and outside the...
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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: Russia’s Trade Union Movement, 1990s-2000sTen years ago this month, Russian activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered. Here, we publish an extended...
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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: F*** anarchy, there’s no future anywayTen years ago this month, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. We publish his reflections on...
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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: the new feudalismAs part of our project to bring the thought of Russian activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov (1974-2009) to...
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Published in: oDRThe Living Front of Stanislav MarkelovTen years ago, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. His legacy tells us why anti-fascism...
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Published in: oDRStanislav Markelov: Times change but the stagnation remainsTen years ago this month, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. We publish his reflections on...
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Published in: oDRHow Russia’s security services try to recruit opposition activistsFor Russian law enforcement, informal connections with the opposition can be anything from genuine...
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Published in: oDR“They are collecting information on people involved in social activism”: Ukrainian anarchists targeted in series of searchesIn December, Ukrainian law enforcement searched a series of activists' homes in connection with a violent assault on...
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Published in: oDRAbnormal normality: Alexander Hug about the present and future of DonbasWhat role can civil society play in creating the dialogue necessary to end the war in Donbas? RU
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Published in: oDR“Electric shock is our way of doing things”A number of Russian anti-fascists and anarchists have been tortured by the country's security services. The official...
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Published in: oDRAfter Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov receives an EU prize, what prospects for solidarity?Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was recently awarded the annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. This should...
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Published in: oDRPhantom foreign investors for an open new UzbekistanA high-profile urban development project in Tashkent is designed to showcase the country for western capital. Our...
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Published in: oDRDispossession and urban development in the new TashkentA new $1.3 billion development in Uzbekistan’s capital is meant to rebrand this Central Asian state as open for...
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Published in: oDR“Propaganda disintegrates on contact with these things”: Kyiv and Moscow directors on the power of documentary theatre to create dialogueDocumentary theatre makers from Russia and Ukraine recently held a theatre festival in Kyiv. Here, two directors...
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Published in: oDR“We don’t need the State Department to hold a revolution”Russian rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina has been defending the rights of refugees and displaced persons for...
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Published in: oDRRough justice in KyrgyzstanNew data shows that 96% of people who find themselves before a Kyrgyz court receive a guilty verdict (unless they...
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Published in: oDRDon’t let Russia leave the Council of EuropeThose who wish to punish the Kremlin for its aggressive actions in Ukraine and elsewhere are missing the target: it...
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Published in: oDRCrisis in the Azov sea: the fate of Ukraine’s naval personnel in RussiaWhat happened in the Black Sea on 25 November, and what awaits the Ukrainian personnel held in Russia? RU
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Published in: oDR“It’s very difficult to investigate anything while the war continues”: Ukrainian human rights activist Yevgen Zakharov on investigating war crimesFour years since the war in eastern Ukraine started, issues over qualification and investigation of war crimes are...
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Published in: oDRGay life in Stalin’s GulagThe sprawling system of Soviet camps contained many untold stories. I spoke to one of the few historians researching...
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