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Published in: oDRA prognosis for Ukraine's ebbing democracySix months into office, Yanukovych has moved swiftly to strengthen government. Indications are mounting that his...
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Published in: oDRThe Poet and the TsarWhen Putin sat down to tea with artists and musicians before a charity concert last month, he could not have...
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Published in: openSecurityTaliban propose joint committee to investigate civilian deaths
The Taliban propose a joint committee to investigate civilian deaths in Afghanistan. Pakistan has announced a...
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Published in: oDRPutin in a ring of fire
Russian government attempts to deal with the heat wave and the resulting widespread forest fires have been much...
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Published in: oDRDreaming of the sea, or a holiday in MoynaqDaniel Metcalfe's book ‘Out of Steppe’ describes his journey through Central Asia. In this excerpt he describes the...
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Published in: oDRRussia burns: an updateLack of personnel and organizational incompetence have seriously hampered the Russian response to forest fires,...
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Published in: oDRIgor Sutyagin and the price of freedomThe imprisonment of military researcher Igor Sutyagin for alleged espionage has long troubled Russian human rights...
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Published in: oDR"Be innovative!", orders the Kremlin
The Russian attempt to build Silicon Valley in Skolkovo is a case of throwing good money after bad, argues Andrei...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: bulldozing the Orange building
President Yanukovych is steadily demolishing the gains of the Orange Revolution. This turn towards Moscow looks...
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Published in: oDRKhodorkovsky trial: a regime in the dockThe accusations against Khodorkovsky have collapsed now that two senior establishment figures have testified. He may...
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Published in: oDRGeorgia's Promising Elections
The recent local elections in Georgia were deemed “free and fair”, but the opposition remains fragmented. Parliament...
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey reviews Israel ties after flotilla assault
Turkey looks to minimise its ties to Israel after the IDF raid on the peace flotilla. In Afghanistan the peace jirga...
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Published in: oDRBelarus gears up for electionAlyaksandr Lukashenka's support is waning — both domestically and from Russia — and he now looks the the most...
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Published in: oDRFighting for Magnitsky: an interview with Jamison Firestone (part 1)Six months on from the controversial prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Oliver Carroll spoke to key witness...
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Published in: oDRCrimes in the CaucasusDocumenting a great historical tragedy unknown to most, Oliver Bullough's new book is a fascinating and...
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Published in: oDRPrison as a death sentenceThe death in custody of Sergei Magnitsky in November shocked the world and mobilised President Medvedev into a...
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Published in: oDRUkraine's Stolen Memory
During Viktor Yushchenko’s five years in power, Ukraine did not start facing up to its totalitarian history. Since...
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Published in: oDRPresident Medvedev’s score at half time
Two years ago, on 7 May 2008, Dmitri Medvedev was sworn in as president, re-placing Vladimir Putin. At this...
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Published in: oDRRemembering Gaidar, man of many talents
Unfairly savaged by Russian populists, Russia’s radical reformer was a brilliant technocrat, a rigorous academic,...
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Published in: oDRWhat's left of Orange Ukraine?Though political infighting continues to hinder reform, Ukraine’s new president is equally unlikely to drop the...
