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Published in: oDRPutin Country
As authoritarian control and renewed superpower tension dominate headlines, telling stories of Russia’s everyday...
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Published in: TransformationUnreality politics
'Post-truth' is supposedly the word of the year, but what does it actually mean for the future of politics?
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Published in: oDRDissecting Russia’s winter of protest, five years on
Five years ago, thousands took to Russia’s streets to protest electoral fraud in what became a push against Putin’s...
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Published in: oDRThe roots of Russia’s atomised mourning
Post-Soviet people have spent two decades mourning a society that never existed. Русский
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Published in: oDRMake Moldova great again
Moldovans are diverse in culture, language and political preference, but united by a lack of faith in their leaders....
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Published in: oDRMoldova’s election: against all of the above
Moldova’s presidential race isn’t over yet. Neither are the country’s geopolitical divides or its long-standing...
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Published in: oDRWołyń: towards memory dialogue between Poland and Ukraine
A new film opens up the horrors of the Second World War, but will it enable reconciliation?
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Published in: oDRWelcome to the post-post-Soviet era
To this day, Lenin lies in state on Red Square. There’s still space in the mausoleum for more modern heroes – and...
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Published in: oDRTbilisi’s Panorama project is urban boosterism at its worst
A massive new construction project overlooking Georgia’s capital reveals the true extent of an oligarch’s grip on...
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Published in: oDRThe fate of Georgian dreams
Amid widespread apathy and corruption, Georgia’s democracy faces all too familiar obstacles.
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Published in: oDRSergey Kirienko, from nuclear to political power
After ten years as head of Rosatom, Sergey Kirienko is now deputy head of Russia’s Presidential Administration. What...
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Published in: oDRMaking do with the crew
In the aftermath of parliamentary elections, can Georgia build a more stable political culture?
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Published in: oDROur man in Moldova
In courting the country’s most loathed oligarch, the EU and US will only lose the sympathy of ordinary Moldovans.
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Published in: oDRBig trouble in little Georgia
For years, Georgia’s politics has been organised around the “search for a saviour”. But now this search has quietly...
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Published in: oDROn 25 years of postmodernity in the South Caucasus
A quarter century since the collapse of Soviet rule in Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, where is the region now and...
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Published in: oDRGeorgia’s politics of piety
Georgia’s church is independent of the state. How long before the state can free itself from the church?
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Published in: oDRRelease Ilgar Mammadov
As Azerbaijan votes on constitutional amendments today, let’s not forget the country’s political prisoners.
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Published in: oDRRussia’s security services are trying to reform their way out of the shadows
Sweeping reforms to Russia’s power ministries show that the FSB has the country’s security monopoly in its sights.
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Published in: oDRRussia’s reluctant elections
The results may be predictable, but Russia’s parliamentary elections hint at the next stage of regime mobilisation.
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Published in: TransformationHow democracy vouchers could combat big money in politics
Across the USA, voters are pushing for public-matching systems to replace the influence of wealthy bankrollers in elections.