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Published in: oDRAbuse of power? On the trail of China's mystery millions in KyrgyzstanFor over six months, Kyrgyzstan has been mired in a high-level corruption scandal: a disastrous $386 million project...
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Published in: oDRWhat we know about alleged elite corruption under former Kyrgyz president Almazbek AtambayevAs Kyrgyzstan’s new regime consolidates power, fresh allegations of corruption by Atambayev loyalists are emerging.
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Published in: oDRAre Kyrgyzstan’s glaciers under threat? This ecologist thinks soThe Central Asian state’s Tian Shan mountain range isn’t just home to shrinking glaciers. It’s also the site of an...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan’s north-south road to corruptionA new investigation reveals another side of Chinese infrastructure projects in Central Asia: elite corruption.
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Published in: oDRHow citizens battling a controversial gold mining project are testing Armenia’s new democracyCan Armenia’s Velvet Revolution deliver change for communities struggling for their health, livelihoods and futures?...
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Published in: oDRIs the anti-corruption agenda all that it’s cracked up to be?The fight against corruption is often sold as the pill to end all postsocialist ills. Activists and researchers in...
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Published in: oDRArmenia: before the goldrushA British mining company has struck gold in southern Armenia. What’s in it for the locals? Updated 3 February with...
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Published in: oDRA letter from an inmate of the Southern Gas CorridorInternational investment in fossil fuel extraction is making me and other Azerbaijani political prisoners hostages...
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Published in: oDRPrinciples down the pipelineNews of fresh fossil fuel loans and corruption confirm a harsh truth — European and international institutions...
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Published in: oDRThe big game: Ulyukaev, Sechin and Russia's neopatrimonial privatisationThe arrest of a federal minister shows that, in Russia, the government and the country’s largest state company are...
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Published in: oDRIn defence of society: an open platformThis manifesto was penned by a group of Russian activists and intellectuals about the current political situation in...
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Published in: oDRNeoliberalism, mining and Armenia's politics of plunderThe resurgence of fighting with Azerbaijan could hinder progressive mobilisation in Armenia, but recent...
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Published in: oDRThe trap of “countering Russia”Across eastern Europe, US engagement against Russia is having an adverse effect on grassroots protesters – and no...
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Published in: oDRTheir security, our poverty: militarisation and Lithuania’s new labour codeThere are signs that a new movement is emerging against austerity in Lithuania, but it will have to contend with a...
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Published in: oDRWhy is the war in eastern Ukraine still going on?As trade links resume across the lines of demarcation in Ukraine, and pressure mounts to end the sanctions against...
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Published in: oDRDon’t ignore the left! Connections between Europe’s radical left and RussiaEurope’s radical left is connected personally and politically to the Kremlin.
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s Verkhovna Rada: an oligarchs’ club or a real parliament?A year ago, Ukraine’s president promised to break the oligarchs’ stronghold on power. While this is yet to happen, a...
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Published in: oDRGeopolitics versus the political marketplace: the origins of the war in UkraineThese two books on the war in Ukraine open up fresh questions into how we interpret the causes of conflict.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What is causing the conflict in Ukraine?Understanding the economic roots of rebellion in eastern Ukraine suggests that the resolution to the crisis must...
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Published in: oDRThe “Moscow Consensus”: Constructing autocracy in post-Soviet EurasiaAcross the former Soviet Union, a new type of authoritarianism has become the default — with commerce, parliaments,...
