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Published in: oDRThe last camping groundRussia’s oil goliaths have been devastating vast areas of natural landscape, and indigenous people’s lives, in their...
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Published in: oDRThe serfs of the Volga Car FactoryThe Volga Car Factory in Togliatti is the biggest in Russia. The management recently announced 7,500 redundancies,...
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Published in: oDRPutin, Crimea and the legitimacy trapThe Kremlin sees events in Ukraine through the prism of its own domestic politics and is anxious to prevent the type...
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Published in: oDRCivil war, secession and the body politicWorking with young people is important in any society. The recent story of an unusual Chechen initiative...
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Published in: oDRThe veterans out in the coldIn Russia, 23 February is celebrated as Defender of the Fatherland Day. But despite a law entitling them to decent...
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Published in: oDRDeath of a boxerThe murder of a young boxer in Omsk two months ago opened a real can of political worms, with the local Roma...
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Published in: oDRRich cities and dying company townsRussia’s unemployment figures look low, but they are rising, and there is a great gulf between the prosperous centre...
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Published in: oDRThe Siberian archipelagoThere’s a popular misconception about Russian politics that ‘everything happens in Moscow.’ But sometimes it’s the...
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Published in: oDRNow I'm a union manIn both Soviet and more recent times, Russia’s trade unions have tended to be an arm of the regime, but Grigory...
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Published in: oDR‘Yaroslavl – graveyard of the Russian spring’When Yevgeny Urlashov became the democratically elected mayor of Yaroslavl, the tourist city on the Volga, he...
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Published in: oDRChemfest in Russia’s ‘chemical capital’Russia’s industrial cities are more than a blot on the landscape. They are the source of appalling chemical...
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Published in: oDRSold down the riverThe Angara, the only river draining Lake Baikal, might disappear by 2020, as it is progressively dammed for massive...
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Published in: oDRLicence to kill on Lake BaikalThe unique Baikal seal has a beautiful coat, which is its undoing. Poachers make good money by killing the babies...
