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Published in: oDRFour Russias: the new political realityUneven modernisation has left its mark on Russia, and the authorities are only too happy to exploit it. What does...
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Published in: oDRStimulating the Russian economyThe dividing line between market liberals and supporters of active state intervention in the Russian economy has...
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Published in: oDRIn memoriam Valery Abramkin, Russia's prison reformerCelebrated Russian activist Valery Abramkin has died aged 66. Here we republish extracts from a lecture delivered in...
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Published in: oDRA Pyrrhic victory for Abramovich?
The judgment in the Berezovsky vs Abramovich case was a long time coming. Berezovsky lost comprehensively, but...
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Published in: oDR‘Pussysteria’, or the awakening of Russia’s conscienceOn 10th July a Moscow court extended the pre-trial detention of three members of feminist punk rock band Pussy Riot,...
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Published in: oDRRussian TV: a different truth for east and west?Russia’s 9 time zones are often exploited by TV management to pull controversial programmes, but the internet has...
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Published in: oDRRussia's Communists: the paper tigers of the oppositionTwenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian Communist Party is enjoying a mini-revival as a channel...
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Published in: oDRDead souls: rank and responsibility in the Russian militaryIn 2010, the Russian military experienced acute delays with procurement. The official response to the affair was...
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Published in: oDRA very Georgian disagreementPost-Soviet Georgia is no stranger to drama or revolution, and after a short interregnum, the country once again...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s future — in its past
Russian intellectual Igor Kon has died aged 82. Here we present one of his final essays, first published on our...
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Published in: oDRRussia's multicultural mythWhen a spokesman from Russia's migration service spoke about the purity of the white Russian race, he was summarily...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s anti-fascist movement loses a championIndependently-minded specialists carrying out research into the seamier side of Russian right-wing nationalist...
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Published in: oDRSergei Sobyanin: man after Russia’s heart?As new mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin inherited a hugely wealthy city and a mass of problems. Putin’s vertical of...
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Published in: oDRCaucasian prisoners (or how not to deal with militancy in Dagestan)The southern republic of Dagestan is now Russia’s most violent flashpoint. Besieged by militants from one side, the...
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Published in: oDRRussian modernisation: between chance and necessityModernisation is a task, not a problem. Russians must first want a modern country if it is to ever emerge. Alexander...
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Published in: oDRYeltsin’s complicated legacy in the CaucasusBoris Yeltsin inherited many problems which he had to try and address while at the same time establishing the new...
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Published in: oDRUkraine right-wing politics: is the genie out of the bottle?Ukrainian politics has until recently been divided between two camps: the pro-Western democrats (recently...
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Published in: oDRSt Petersburg's tower vertical defeated. For now...
The Okhta Centre protestors have achieved the relocation of the project to another part of St Petersburg. But it...
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Published in: oDRPutin’s retreat — beginning at the gates of MoscowPresident Medvedev recently sacked the longstanding Moscow mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, despite his closeness to Putin. This...
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Published in: oDRFridman: How I became an oligarchWhat do you need to succeed in business?A mixture of luck and good judgement, according to Mikhail Fridman, one of...
