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Published in: oDRThese hills are oursIn Bashkortostan, the hills are alive with the sound of limestone quarrying. Now local civil society is taking on...
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Published in: oDRCOP21: stories from Russia’s indigenous peoplesAt the UN's recent climate change conference in Paris, Russia's indigenous peoples told stories of how climate...
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Published in: oDRWe need to find the common ground between climate change and civil societyTo combat Russia’s industrial polluters, public indifference and limits on NGO activity, we need to link climate...
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Published in: oDRMedia responsibility in the age of terrorProfessor Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, and journalists Rita Chinyoka and Nadezhda Azhgikhina discuss feeding terror, hate...
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Published in: oDRThe Samara Three: what we knowThree bloggers have been arrested in Samara, Russia on suspected extortion charges. The ripples from the arrest are...
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Published in: oDRFor the Don Cossacks, Russia’s Civil War is not yet overThe commemoration of a massacre of Cossacks by the British Army in Austria 70 years ago has opened a can of worms in...
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Published in: oDRFinding a place for ZhenyaNatalya’s youngest son Zhenya will soon be six. He is a child with a difference, and Natalya needs to make a choice...
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Published in: oDRThe opposition's last mandateDeputies of the Pskov regional assembly are attempting to remove a colleague from their ranks—opposition lawmaker...
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Published in: oDRRussia is swimming in oilRussia’s oil industry lacks the infrastructure to avoid spills and leaks; and the environmental consequences are horrific.
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Published in: oDRSamara’s governor takes aim at higher educationDown in Samara on the Volga river, the city’s higher education institutions are facing cuts and closure. And many...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s last independent mayor is going down fightingIn Petrozavodsk, Karelia, the conflict between Russia’s last independent mayor and the governor has turned nasty....
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Published in: oDRKadyrov and Putin: parallel livesWhile Vladimir Putin has given Ramzan Kadyrov a free hand in Chechnya, the relationship between Moscow and Grozny is...
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Published in: oDRAnarchism, Russian-styleThe village of Kolionovo has a reputation for independent mindedness and upsetting the authorities. Now they’ve...
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Published in: oDRSamizdat in SamaraValery Pavlukevich, who recently passed away, was a regular contributor to oDR. In his last appearance on these...
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Published in: oDRSlavery in modern RussiaSlavery flourishes in Russian regions where a weak state, low salaries, and corrupt police make it profitable.
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Published in: oDRBook review: Hamid Ismailov ‘The Underground’
In The Underground, like his mixed-race hero, Hamid Ismailov is looking, above and below ground, for the answer to...
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Published in: oDRLooking after yourself in SiberiaThe ‘rationalisation’ of medical and social services in rural Russia has compelled people to acquire new skills in...
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Published in: oDRDerbent: how the oldest city in Russia missed its birthdayDerbent, the oldest city in Russia, was supposed to mark its 2000th birthday – or was it 5000th – this year, but...
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Published in: oDRNovosibirsk's cultural history of lossWhen it comes to loss, this city has form stretching back to the Soviet era. But is the scandal surrounding the...
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Published in: oDRInterview with a murderer
There are currently 59,000 women in Russian penal establishments. For many of them prison is not so much a...
